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Microsoft and Inrix launched services that will help drivers avoid long traffic lines by providing data for example about side streets.

The dollar declined against the euro ahead of the Group of Seven nations meeting in Washington on Friday.

Toyota Motor Corp said Wednesday it will recall about 539,500 Corolla and Matrix vehicles sold in the U.S. from defects in window glass, while nearly 630,000 minivans will be recalled in Japan.

Natural gas futures gained amid speculation that supplies will decline as imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and shipments from Canada drop.

Wheat advanced following reports that Pakistan will produce less grain than forecasted due to high fertilizer costs that prompted farmers to reduce planting.

BP and ConocoPhillips announced plans on Tuesday to combine resources and form the Alaska Gas Pipeline, which will produce approximately 4 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day to markets and cost at least $20 billion.

Wheat dropped on Monday amid concerns that the world's producers will plant more of the grain to benefit from the high prices.

Commodity OnlineNEW YORK: Several commodity prices tracked together today. June gold fell $15.00 to $921.50, along with the sell off in soybean and wheat prices. May crude oil closed down $4.04 at $101.58.

Commodity Online MUMBAI: The global independent oil exploration and extraction company, Cairn Energy said its Indian unit and the government is currently holding talks on financing of a major pipeline project.

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Natural gas dropped on Monday as crude oil prices declined and on forecasts for mild weather that will reduce demand for the heating fuel.

Wheat declined after the U.S. Department of Agriculture said that export sales increased by 51 percent last week, increasing forecasts that importers have enough grain until the next harvest begins in June.

Gold futures closed with modest gains Tuesday after the Federal Reserve said it will for the first time, lend $200 in treasuries in exchange for debt that includes mortgage-backed securities. Silver fell.

Facebook, the social network site that has enjoyed spectacular international growth in the past year, despite being published only in English until recently, said on Monday it was offering a German version.

Toyota Motor Corp will boost production capacity for its Lexus luxury cars in Japan by about 35 percent in 2009 to meet growing demand in emerging countries such as Russia and China, the Nikkei business daily reported on Wednesday.

Actor Jude Law will appear as Heath Ledger's character, along with Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell, in the unfinished film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Law's spokeswoman said on Monday.

The market for KPO or Knowledge Process Outsourcing, which follows the success waves created by ITO (Information and Technology Outsourcing) in the 1980s and the BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) in the 1990s, is expected to touch $10-17 billion by 2010 and India is well poised to grab a major share of the market, a research paper released by the global audit, tax and advisory services group KPMG has revealed.

Wheat posted gains on Thursday after millers and overseas importers encountered shortage of spring grain, used to make bread, pasta and other staple foods.

The euro declined to two-week lows versus the dollar on Thursday after European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said euro zone growth risks are to the downside, signaling lower interest rates this year.

Tens of thousands of agricultural workers and their union representatives gathered at Mexico City's downtown plaza, the Zocalo, on Thursday to complain about the agriculture provisions in the North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico.

Dell will close about 140 retail kiosks in the U.S., in an effort to adjust its evolving product distribution strategy.