Gas prices have risen to above $4 per gallon in many parts of the country, but compared to other countries, it's actually a rather low figure.
Daniel Tovrov
Feb 21, 2012
Ciena Corp slashed its first-quarter sales expectations, hurt by delays in recognizing revenue as its customers take time to close deals, sending the network gear maker's shares down as much as 7 percent.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 21, 2012
Ciena Corp slashed its first-quarter sales expectations, hurt by delays in recognizing revenue as its customers take time to close deals, sending the network gear maker's shares down as much as 7 percent.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 21, 2012
Japan's Mazda Motor Corp plans to raise $2.1 billion to shore up its finances and invest in a new plant in Mexico, financial sources said on Tuesday -- a bigger-than-expected dilutive fundraising that sent its shares tumbling 10 percent.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 21, 2012
Japan reported a record-high balance of trade deficit in January as last year's tsunami combined with floods in Thailand, the Eurozone's sovereign debt crisis, a slowing Chinese market and a soaring yen to leave the world's third-largest economy with its first trade deficit since the last century.
Eleazar David Meléndez
Feb 20, 2012
A trained monkey can climb up to 500 coconut trees per day, ten times the capacity of a human being.
Palash Ghosh
Feb 20, 2012
In Myanmar's new war on drugs, meet the weapon of mass destruction: the weed-whacker. It has dramatically accelerated a campaign to eradicate opium poppies.
Raymond Ronamai
Feb 20, 2012
Japan logged a record trade deficit with China in January as exports dropped by a fifth, underscoring concerns about how sharply China is slowing and its ability to buffer a frail global economy against European turmoil.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 20, 2012
Japan logged a record trade deficit in January, government data showed on Monday, the clearest evidence to date of pain from a firm yen, a global slowdown and rising fuel imports needed to offset declining use of nuclear power.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 19, 2012
Iranian warships have entered the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal. It is only the second time since 1979, when a revolution established an Islamic Republic in Iran, that this has happened.
Palash Ghosh
Feb 18, 2012
Hague claimed that London has urged the Israelis not to launch such a strike.
Palash Ghosh
Feb 18, 2012
While Indian authorities have launched an investigation into Monday's New Delhi car bombing, and its suspected masterminds, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government has continued to embrace trading with the country that is widely suspected of the attacks -- Iran.
Oliver Tree
Feb 17, 2012
The convoluted path of Air Australia, which is less than four months old and operated on a leased fleet of five aircraft, is being framed as a case study in which corporate hubris and a hands-off approach from corporate regulators combined to deliver a spectacular demise.
Eleazar David Meléndez
Feb 17, 2012
Both Iran and Hezbollah have denied complicity in all three attacks.
Palash Ghosh
Feb 17, 2012
The 5-step instructional video includes sticking to thin and simple smiles.
Peggy Truong
Feb 16, 2012
Thai and Israeli officials believe the Iranians arrested for a series of blasts in Bangkok on Tuesday were plotting at attack Israeli diplomats.
Daniel Tovrov
Feb 16, 2012
Shares of Nvidia Corp slipped 6 percent before the bell on Thursday, after it scaled back sales expectations for its Tegra 3 processors used in mobile devices and warned that delays at its contract manufacturer were hurting sales of its PC graphics chips.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 16, 2012
The government stuck to its assessment that Japan's economy is slowly picking up on Thursday and raised its view on consumer spending for the first time in six months, after a resumption of subsidies for fuel-efficient cars boosted sales.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 16, 2012
Nvidia Corp warned that delays in ramping up new manufacturing technology and a struggling PC industry are impacting its business; the chipmaker also scaled back its outlook for growth in its smartphone and tablet business.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 15, 2012
Nvidia Corp's forecast for first-quarter revenue fell short of Wall Street expectations as the chipmaker wrestles with a tepid personal computer market and more competition in smartphones and tablets, sending its shares down sharply after hours.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 15, 2012
Two Iranians are in Thai custody charged with plotting Tuesday's bomb attacks in Bangkok.
Jonathan Davis
Feb 15, 2012
Ambassador Itzhak Shoham told the New York Times that bombs discovered in a house in Bangkok were similar to those used in attacks against Israeli diplomats in Georgia and India, though some remain skeptical of the findings
Stephen Smith
Feb 15, 2012