International Business News - down http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Exxon Mobil Corp on Thursday said its quarterly profit fell 68 percent, missing Wall Street estimates, as the global recession bit into fuel demand and crude oil prices fell from year-ago levels. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/223225-view-of-the-exxon-mobil-refinery-in.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091029/exxon-quarterly-profit-down-68-percent-misses-street.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091029/exxon-quarterly-profit-down-68-percent-misses-street.htm Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:16:02 EDT Royal Dutch Shell Plc said third quarter net profits fell 73 percent, hit by falling oil and gas prices and refining margins, and Chief Executive Peter Voser warned of a slow recovery. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/223219-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091029/shell-profit-down-73-percent-hit-by-falling-oil-prices.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091029/shell-profit-down-73-percent-hit-by-falling-oil-prices.htm Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:48:01 EDT Royal Dutch Shell Plc said third quarter net profits fell 73 percent, hit by falling oil and gas prices and refining margins, and Chief Executive Peter Voser warned of a slow recovery. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/223205-workers-are-seen-behindlogo-for-oil-company.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091029/shell-profits-down-73-pct.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091029/shell-profits-down-73-pct.htm Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:32:01 EDT Corrects paragraph 3 to show output figures are year-to-date, not quarterly; deletes reference to prior quarter http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/223185-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091028/corrected-conocophillips-profit-down-71-percent.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091028/corrected-conocophillips-profit-down-71-percent.htm Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:16:02 EDT The dollar rose on Friday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke indicated U.S. monetary policy could be tightened as a recovery takes hold, sending crude and metal prices lower. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/222088-an-investor-gestures-in-front-of-an.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091009/bernanke-boosts-dollar-commodities-down.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091009/bernanke-boosts-dollar-commodities-down.htm Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:24:03 EDT U.S. copper futures ended lower on Monday, after hitting their lowest levels in nearly two weeks, as a steadier tone in the dollar and worries about recent supply builds and moderating import levels in China combined to drag prices down for the fourth straight session. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090914/dollar-demand-worries-drag-us-copper-futures-down.htm Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:36:39 EDT U.S. environmental regulators said on Friday they will scrutinize 79 applications for mountaintop coal-mine permits in Appalachia to guard against damage to water supplies. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/220298-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090912/us-cracks-down-on-mountaintop-coal-mine-permits.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090912/us-cracks-down-on-mountaintop-coal-mine-permits.htm Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:30:44 EDT Residential and small commercial solar energy integrator Real Goods Solar said its Chief Executive Tom McCalmont would step down. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090912/real-goods-solar-ceo-step-down.htm Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:17:23 EDT U.S. copper futures closed down on Thursday, as prices extended a phase of consolidation below the $3.00 a lb level and fell under the weight of renewed concerns about near-term demand prospects, analysts said. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/220155-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090910/us-copper-closes-down-consolidation-belowlb.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090910/us-copper-closes-down-consolidation-belowlb.htm Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:10:12 EDT U.S. copper futures slumped to a 1-1/2 week low Wednesday morning, as further losses in global equity markets overnight continued to undermine confidence in the economic recovery and weak U.S. jobs data added to the weight of the move. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/219643-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090902/us-copper-opens-down-with-equities-jobs-data-saps.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090902/us-copper-opens-down-with-equities-jobs-data-saps.htm Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:10:39 EDT DETROIT - Chrysler Group LLC\'s U.S. sales fell 15 percent to 93,222 units in August due to inventory shortages related to extensive summer shutdowns during its bankruptcy restructuring, a source briefed on the matter said on Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/219548-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090901/updatechrysler-us-sales-down-15-pct-august-source.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090901/updatechrysler-us-sales-down-15-pct-august-source.htm Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:58:38 EDT U.S. consumers satisfaction with credit cards plummeted in 2009, driven by anger due to fees and higher interest rates, according to a J.D. Power and Associates poll released on Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/219513-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090901/us-credit-card-satis-faction-down-amid-higher-rates-poll.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090901/us-credit-card-satis-faction-down-amid-higher-rates-poll.htm Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:34:03 EDT NEW YORK - U.S. copper futures extended a pull-back from last week's 11-month highs Monday morning, as a sharp plunge in Chinese and U.S. equity markets curbed economic recovery hopes, and a firmer dollar combined to drag prices down to one-week lows. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/219463-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090831/econ-worries-drag-us-copper-down-from-11-mth-highs.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090831/econ-worries-drag-us-copper-down-from-11-mth-highs.htm Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:49:38 EDT NEW YORK - U.S. copper futures dipped into negative territory Thursday morning as a weaker open on Wall Street and lingering concerns about Chinese demand sapped earlier strength and pulled prices back down from the $2.90 a lb level. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090827/us-copper-futures-down-early-as-china-worries-weigh.htm Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:32:16 EDT Energy company New Zealand Oil and Gas Ltd (NZO.NZ) reported a 45 percent fall in full year net profit on Wednesday, on the back of lower returns from its Tui oil field. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090825/nz-oil-gas-profit-down-45-percent.htm Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:48:16 EDT U.S. copper futures ended down on Tuesday as a bout of investor profit-taking dragged prices lower despite a double dose of economic data that provided further evidence the world's largest economy was emerging from recession. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090825/us-copper-ends-down-profit-taking-outweighs-data.htm Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:57:59 EDT Google search engine infrastructure dubbed as "Caffeine" is down, a possible come back is set this afternoon. “DON'T PANIC”, said Matt Cutts, Principal Engineer of Google. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090813/google-caffeine-is-down-possible-come-back-today.htm Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:38:05 EDT On Thursday evening, the Microsoft Xbox Live service was unreachable, joining the likes of Twitter and Facebook which also went down this week, crippling millions of its users around the world. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090807/xbox-live-down-twitter-facebook-microsoft-xbox.htm Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:22:22 EDT Twitter is down for an hour Thursday morning shutting millions of users from using the online messaging service. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090806/twitter-down-twitter-problems-twitter-outage.htm Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:18:15 EDT Cisco's website was reportedly down for more than 30 minutes as the company updates its back-end, according to The Register UK. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090804/cisco-is-website-down.htm Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:17:33 EDT