No one yet has any real idea about when the global financial crisis will end, but one thing is certain: government budget deficits are headed into the stratosphere. Investors in the coming years will need to be persuaded to hold mountains of new debt.
U.S.-based outsourcer iGate Corp's bid for fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services Ltd will be well short of the current market price, its chief executive told a television channel on Monday.
WASHINGTON - U.S. business leaders urged lawmakers on Thursday to act quickly on healthcare reform, saying American companies were losing out to other countries with cheaper healthcare and healthier workers.
More spending will give only a brief sugar high if G20 nations fail to clean up their banks, the World Bank said on Friday as economic powers struggled to agree a response to the worst downturn in decades.
Premier Wen Jiabao said on Friday China was open to holding more talks with envoys for the Dalai Lama as long as the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader renounces what Beijing describes as separat
U.S. business leaders urged lawmakers on Thursday to act quickly on healthcare reform, saying American companies were losing out to other countries with cheaper healthcare and healthier workers.
Finance ministers and central bankers from Brazil, Russia, India and China will convene ahead of the Group of 20 finance chiefs' meeting in London on Friday, a Russian delegation source told Reuters on Thursday.
Microsoft Corp founder Bill Gates is the richest man again, overtaking investor Warren Buffett, as the global financial meltdown wiped out $2 trillion from the net worth of the world's billionaires, Forbes Magazine said on Wednesday.
A day after he slammed China for causing untold suffering in Tibet, the Dalai Lama Wednesday said he still believed the future was bright and hoped the Chinese leadership would use more common sense.
The Dalai Lama said on Tuesday more and more Chinese were beginning to see a problem with Beijing's rule over Tibet, lamenting how the homeland he fled 50 years ago had become a hell on earth.
India is launching its own version of Google Earth for urban planning, officials said, amid worries that it could be misused after the Mumbai attacks probe showed militants had studied Google images of targets.
The Dalai Lama is set to mark his 50 years in exile on Tuesday by demanding meaningful autonomy for his Tibetan homeland and saying that Chinese rule there has at times been hell on earth.
Britain should cast aside its hesitation and press ahead with carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects, especially as it needs to replace many coal-fired generators, a government advisor told Reuters.
India's Satyam Computer Services said it was commencing a competitive bidding process to select an investor to acquire 51 percent stake.
India and Pakistan must change the way they treat each other and bury a dirty past to tackle growing militancy in the region together, Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf said on Saturday.
India's Sterlite Industries will pay $1.7 billion in cash and notes to buy bankrupt U.S. copper miner Asarco LLC, lower than the $2.6 billion it offered last year, the Indian firm said on Saturday.
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Royal Bank of Scotland is retrenching to its core businesses and plans to exit up to 36 countries, but unpicking a decade of deals in the eye of a financial storm will be a long slog.
Fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services won regulatory approval to sell a majority stake in itself, but potential suitors said there was still uncertainty about the Indian company's accounts and liabilities.
Goldman Sachs is looking to sell some of its Indian investments, including a 5 percent stake in the National Stock Exchange (NSE), the Daily News and Analysis said on Thursday, citing people familiar with the development.
Pakistani investigators were following important leads to identify who was behind the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Wednesday.
Pakistani police hunted on Wednesday for gunmen who mounted the bold attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team in Lahore and officials scrambled to figure out who was behind it.
