May 18 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese stocks slumped as Europe’seconomy contracted the most in at least 13 years and PanasonicCorp. forecast a second year of losses. Canon Inc., which generates about a third of its sales inEurope, slipped 3.6 percent. Mizuho Financial ...Read More
DORAL, Fla. - Every time things became tight Sunday - and there were several - Ernie Els did what he used to do back when the living was easy and he was a dominant player in his 20s and his ...Read More
March 11 (Bloomberg) -- K+S AG, Europe's biggest potash producer, said fourth-quarter earnings fell less than estimated as Europe's mid-winter cold snap bolstered demand for de-icing salt. Operating profit fell 87 percent to 36.5 million euros ($50 million), beating the mean ...Read More
View Slideshow See all (5) slides More It was part of Panasonic's official launch of its 3D plasma line-up, which included some new information on content from DirectTV and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.
The first customers, Brad and Ashley, ...Read More
March 11 (Bloomberg) -- Gordon Brown is trying to turn the threat of a double-dip U.K. recession into an advantage. The British prime minister, whose Labour Party is narrowing the gap in opinion polls with the opposition Conservatives, is arguing that ...Read More
March 10 (Bloomberg) -- Orange-juice futures fell for a third straight day, the longest slump since December, after the citrus crop in Florida was projected to be bigger than forecast. “We had increased box count, so that's why we're weaker,” said ...Read More
March 10 (Bloomberg) -- Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average was little changed at 10,563.92 at the close in Tokyo. The following were among the most active shares in the Japanese market today. Stock symbols are in parentheses after company names. Machine ...Read More
And you thought you could leave those geeky 3D shades in the cineplex. Over the next couple months, Sony, Samsung, and Panasonic will roll out a range of high-end 3D TV sets intended to appeal to the same audiences that ...Read More
If you want a taste of technology's latest trend, make friends with a Jonathan Duffy. When the first 3-D TVs hit the market – even if the highly-hyped 3-D channels, 3-D broadcasts and 3-D Blu-ray discs aren't yet available to accompany ...Read More
As everybody knows, 3D TVs are all the rage at the moment, with Panasonic being one of the most active electronics companies in that area. But until today, details on how and when those devices will be sold outside Japan ...Read More
Panasonic may have been first-to-market with its interchangeable-lens camera, but its early models made some missteps. The relatively reasonably priced Lumix DMC-G1 lacked video capture capability, and the video-capable GH1 came with an optimized lens that made it a pretty ...Read More
March 6 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. two-year notes posted their longest losing streak this year as reports showing fewer job losses than forecast and productivity gains prompted investors to bet the U.S. economic recovery is gaining traction. Two-year yields climbed yesterday for ...Read More
(Adds GDP survey in the sixth paragraph.) March 4 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese businesses cut spending for an 11th quarter even as their earnings rebounded, signaling a revival in exports remains insufficient to prompt investment that would spur the recovery. Capital spending excluding ...Read More
March 3 (Bloomberg) -- India's benchmark stock index advanced for a third day after Nomura Holdings Inc. raised the nation's economic growth forecast and a report showed services grew at the fastest pace in more than a year. DLF Ltd., the ...Read More
MORGANTOWN, W.VA. -- With Austin Freeman in the lineup, there has always been a sense this season that Georgetown could spontaneously erupt in a scoring barrage to erase any deficit, no matter how lopsided the score.
But Freeman was under a ...Read More
March 1 (Bloomberg) -- President Dmitry Medvedev said the officials responsible for preparing Russia's Olympic team for the Vancouver Games should quit after the country's worst showing since it began competing in 1956. “The people responsible, or some of those responsible ...Read More
Stocks tumbled out of the gate after both Standard & Poor's and Moody's said they may have to cut Greece's debt rating if the country doesn't implement its so-called austerity measures, meant to rein in its deficit. Greece has said it ...Read More
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union economy is recovering from the deepest and longest recession in its history, but growth is still fragile although risks in 2010 are broadly balanced, the European Commission said on Thursday. The EU executive kept unchanged ...Read More
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil fell below $80 on Thursday, as the dollar recovered and the euro slid on concerns over the European economy, while the surprise rise in U.S. crude stocks offset the fall on gasoline ahead of the driving ...Read More
Washington Post Co. quadruples 4Q profit NEW YORK — The Washington Post Co. said Wednesday that its fourth-quarter profit more than quadrupled. Its education division provided most of the lift, although the publishing segment also made money after large cost cuts. Like ...Read More
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Erving Walker hit three straight three-point attempts to highlight Florida's 18-3 run in the closing moments, sealed a 75-62 upset of No. 17 Tennessee and put the Gators all alone in third place in the SEC East.
"You ...Read More
