Hawaii sees a bigger wave of tourists The State | No need to fret for the state of Hawaii tourism anymore. | Visitor numbers to the Aloha State dropped dramatically during the recession, and the state's tourism industry suffered another blow when an earthquake and tsunami in Japan last year stifled the flow of big-spending Japanese vacationers to...
Asian central banks battle high inflation News24 Jakarta/Seoul - Consumer inflation stayed high across Asia in January and could pick up further in some countries in coming months, leaving their central banks with few options to cushion the economies from the global slowdown. | Growth in consumer prices moderated in January on a year-on-year basis...
Asian Shares Down Wall Street Journal By JOHN PHILLIPS | SINGAPORE—Asian stock markets were modestly lower Tuesday as a series of eurozone ratings cuts by Moody's Investors Services weighed on risk appetite, hurting the euro and sending financial shares lower across the region. | M...
Korea Firm Turns to Indonesia Jakarta Globe Mirae Asset Global Investments, South Korea’s second-biggest money manager, agreed to buy the asset-management unit of Indonesia’s NISP Sekuritas, seeking to tap rising affluence in the Southeast Asian nation. | Mirae Asset Global signed a contra...
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Markets buoyed by news of Greek debt deal Atlanta Journal | LONDON — Stock markets extended gains and the euro struck a two-month high against the dollar Thursday after the Greek Prime Minister's office said a deal has been struck with coalition parties on new cuts that are necessary for the country t...
Markets remain optimistic over Greek deal Kansas City Star Lee Jin-man A currency trader reacts near the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (Kospi), at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Korea Exchange Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. South Korea's Kospi rose 0.54 percent...
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Smartphones drive record Samsung profit Canada Dot Com | SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co posted a record $4.7 billion quarterly operating profit, driven by booming smartphone sales, and will spend $22 billion this year to b...
Hyundai Motor reports record $7.2B profit for 2011 my SA | SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hyundai Motor's net profit jumped 35 percent to a record high last year after selling more than 4 million cars for the first time. | The company's 201...
Seoul shares down on programme selling, eased foreign buying The Times Of India Seoul shares dipped lower on Thursday, with arbitrage sales weighing on the market on options expiry and as foreign investors curbed their buying binge due to uncertainty over the outcome of Greek debt talks. | "Offshore investors who have bought alm...
Qantas, Korean Air check A380s for wing cracks The Guardian By Narayanan Somasundaram and Ju-min Park SYDNEY/SEOUL, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Qantas Airways and Korean Air will carry out inspections for wing cracks on their Airbus A380 superjumbo planes earlier than previously scheduled, after European air safety off...
Seoul shares open down after Greek leaders' talks The Times Of India SEOUL: Seoul shares opened down on Thursday after Greek political leaders failed to fully agree on the points of a bailout package. | The Korea Composite Stock Price Index ( KOSPI) traded 0.43 percent lower to 1,995.17 points as of 0006 GMT. Post a c...
