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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged the world's wealthy countries on Monday to “go the extra mile” to re-balance the rules of the trading system in favor of the poor.

Oil prices fell below $US60 a barrel for the first time in six months on Monday amid signs of growing petroleum inventories and after BP said it had permission to resume working the eastern half of Alaska's Prudhoe Bay oil field.

Aberdeen Asset Management's assets under management fell by 3.9 percent over the five months to the end of August, primarily as a result of a fall in the value of the U.S. dollar.

Sales of US existing homes in the last month likely fell to the lowest level in more than two years, according to a Reuters poll and National Association of Realtors data.

The United States and China differ on how quickly they can resolve their economic disagreements, but not on the general goals, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Friday after meeting China's top two leaders.

The United States will not seek $1.3 billion (683 million pounds) in back oil royalties on some Gulf of Mexico drilling leases but is negotiating a deal with BP and Shell to make payments on those offshore tracts in the future

U.S. Mid-Atlantic factory activity retrenched for the first time in over three years in September, the latest sign of a rapidly-slowing economy.

Nissan Motor Co Ltd will start selling light commercial vehicles in North America soon, aiming for a market share at least as great as taken by the Japanese group's passenger cars.

BAE Systems said on Wednesday its core first half earnings rose by 39 percent helped its U.S. operations, including a one off accounting gain there.

The top U.S. trade negotiator said on Sunday before meeting a group of developing nations the United States was committed to a successful outcome of current world trade talks.

New U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is trying to depersonalize the Fed by making its decision-making more democratic and easier to understand, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

IBM will build a next-generation supercomputer for the U.S. Energy Department with the potential to achieve a sustained speed of 1,000 trillion calculations per second

A new lawsuit lodged against BP claims the oil giant manipulated crude oil prices by refusing to allow traders access to U.S. storage facilities

U.S. consumer confidence slipped to a nine-month low in August on inflation and job worries, while minutes of the Federal Reserve's policy meeting showed most officials thought inflation would ease in the months ahead.

The chief U.S. Treasury spokesman repeated standing policy on Monday that international currency markets should determine foreign exchange values.

Central bankers and top academics departed here on Sunday after two days of discussions on how the global economic landscape is shifting.

U.S. stocks edged higher on Thursday, with the S&P 500 getting a lift from the oil sector, but data showing a slowdown in new home sales hurt the shares of retailers and industrial companies.

New orders for U.S.-made durable goods excluding the volatile transportation sector rose more than expected in July and the number of workers seeking jobless benefits fell slightly last week, government reports showed on Thursday.

U.S. mortgage applications rose for a third straight week as homeowners with adjustable loans took advantage of falling interest rates, data from the industry's main trade group showed on Wednesday.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Friday that high energy and health care costs were interfering with Americans' ability to feel the benefits of a solidly growing economy.

President George W. Bush will wrap up conferring with his economic team on Friday on ways to keep the economy growing against a backdrop of higher interest rates, mixed data and fears of rising inflation.