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Oil companies once viewed drilling in the deep waters off Florida as cost prohibitive. Politicians feared even the slightest ...

Reuters - Hyundai Motor Co (005480.KS), South Korea's top auto maker, said on Sunday it had cut its local sales target for this year by 6 percent as record-breaking oil prices are hitting consumer sentiment in Asia's fourth-largest economy.

Things in the U.S. sure are tough. Brother, can you spare a euro? The almighty dollar is mighty no more. It has been declining ...

Reuters - President George W. Bush said on Sunday the American economy was not growing as quickly as he would like and that his administration supported a strong dollar policy.

A consortium of Bain Capital, Blackstone and NBC Universal is buying Weather Channel for about $3.2bn in what may prove to be the largest US leveraged buy-out this year

Iran's top security negotiator will this month meet the EU's foreign policy chief, amid continuing hopes that Tehran will soon begin formal talks on its nuclear programme

President George W. Bush said he was prepared to be 'constructive' in discussions on climate change, but he insisted any deal was contingent on the participation of China and India

As Goldman Sachs' rivals are trying to copy the formula of its success, its decision to put an industrialist rather than a banker on its board could be influential

A Barack Obama administration would seek to ban risk-based pricing on all individual health insurance plans to stop companies cherry-picking healthy customers, a senior adviser has said