A drop at Boeing weighed on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, while strength in Apple and the technology sector lifted the other major U.S. indexes into positive territory. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index gained one point, or 0.1%, to 1473, while the Nasdaq Composite added 10 points, or 0.3%, to 3120. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 25 points, or 0.2%, to 13510 in Wednesday afternoon trading, following five days of gains that pushed the index to within 1% of its highs from la...
Bell FX Currency Outlook: Australian Dollar edges higher ahead of domestic jobs data today.
Japanese researchers from Nippon Light Metal Co. Ltd. had discovered high concentrations of rare earth elements in the red mud of Jamaica, the latter's Minister of Science, Technology, Energy & Mining announced on Wednesday.
After 40 years, commuters may well experience traffic congestion easing up in Melbourne with the scheduled opening of the Peninsula Link on Friday.
Stocks of gas face masks as well as air purifiers have sold like hotcakes in China early this week as the Asian country fights and cleans off its worst yet smog pollution which hit large parts of Central and East China over the weekend. Such a price the country has to pay in exchange for global economic supremacy.
Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) were making numerous appearances close to NASA’s International Space Stations (ISS). The footages have been posted on YouTube to show the public images of different shapes and sizes of UFOs captured from the NASA cameras.
U.S. stocks edged lower as investors balanced upbeat retail sales data against a sluggish measure of New York-area manufacturing, and as Apple weighed on the technology sector
Bell FX Currency Outlook: Australian Dollar little changed as US debt ceiling nervousness creeps in.
Humanity survived its predicted destruction on December 21 2012 but a group of U.S. scientists believe that we are again closer to the end days not because the Mayan Calendar says so. They now look at the symbolical Doomsday Clock, its minute hand ticks just five minutes before midnight.
Labor’s opening salvo for election year 2013 appears to have exceeded the ruling party’s expectations as the latest News Ltd-Newspoll survey showed the government to a record high 38 per cent of primary vote, boosting its support by an impressive 6-point jump.
Bell FX Currency Outlook: Australian dollar edges higher ahead of US Fed Chairman speech. The Australian dollar has opened marginally higher against the
Greenback after trading in a tight range in what was a relatively quiet overnight session
The U.S. government, through its Department of Energy, will allot some $120 million to fund the creation of a rare earths research facility that will aid the economic leader lessen if not totally cut off its dependence from China, the world's stronghold of the essential 17 precious elements.
The Coalition mocks her 935 days of being the nation’s chief leader, marked on Sunday, but Prime Minister Julia Gillard appears all geared up in further extending her grip on the job she inherited from former Labor leader Kevin Rudd.
January 13 is indeed a remarkable date to remember. The event called “Global No Pants Subway Rides 2013” occurred in several cities worldwide as participants from New York City to Amsterdam strip off their pants and have a good time with semi-nudity while traveling.
Despite tough national controls and a guns buyback program instituted by then Prime Minister John Howard, the number of Australians owning guns have risen and are already actually parallel to the number in circulation prior to the 1996 Port Arthur shooting massacre.
The main building facility housing the telescopes of Australia's Siding Spring Observatory remained unscathed and intact despite a raging bushfire in New South Wales that have destroyed at least 12 homes in the Warrumbungle National Park area over the weekend.
Feeling grouchy on a Monday? Grumpy Cat is with you. A lot of cats on Reddit, Instagram and Facebook look adorable, cute and friendly. Grumpy Cat hates them all. But then this perennially cranky cat hates everything. Grumpy Cat has been on different social networks, whining about life, special occasions and commentaries on trending topics of the day.
Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar opens today's trading in the mid 1.0500's recovering from a relatively quiet session Friday night.
Blue-chip stocks edged higher Friday, capping a week of modest gains, though Wells Fargo & Co.'s earnings weighed on bank shares. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 17.21 points, or 0.1%, to 13488.43 Friday.
While Oppositions in Australian politics often paint the current government as a bad one in a bid to wrest power, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) assessment said it is not the Whitlam, Rudd or Gillard Labor governments that there there was wasteful spending, but during the term of former Prime Minister John Howard.
Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd called on his Labor colleagues, specifically those serving in the Gillard Government, to use more of their hearts in designing the national dole program for hard-up Australians.
Ellen DeGeneres is Australia bound! The Hollywood talk show chatterbox, Ellen, who has a fan base even in the Asia-Pacific, is bringing her light and easy banter Down Under like contemporary Oprah last year.
A survey released by the U.S. Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal on Friday titled 2013 Index of Economic Freedom has placed Australia on the third spot, with Hong Kong still on the lead for the 19th straight year.
Donations to victims affected by the first catastrophic bushfire in Tasmania, Australia have reached past A$2 million, with Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, among those who donated a significant amount.
Luka Apps of Highworth, Wiltshire, England bought a precious LEGO Christmas toy. Just like any other kid, the 7-year-old boy became upset when he lost the Jay ZX LEGO character of the Ninjago Ultrasonic Raider set while inside a supermarket so he decided to write a letter to the company about his misfortune.
While other state parts are being ravaged by simultaneous bushfires, residents off the northern coast of Western Australia prepares for tropical cyclone Narelle, the country's first for the Dec-April tropical storm season.
Toward the end of 2012, while the rest of the world was talking about the Mayan prophecy that speculated an apocalypse on Dec 21, 2012, the United States was dealing with a major financial and political problem that led to the popularity of the words fiscal cliff.
Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar is eyeing USD 1.0600 as the grind upwards continues.
Financial shares led broad gains in major benchmarks, as market-watchers found reasons for bullishness in economic data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 42 points, or 0.3%, to 13433. Bank of America paced the blue chips, rising 2.5%.
A proposal for the U.S. Treasury to mint one trillion dollar coins to address the country's debt limit problem appears headed for defeat despite the support for it by Republicans and some sectors.
