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Many agree that Blockbuster needs a change in order to beef up profits, but few agree with its proposal to acquire the consumer electronics retailer Circuit City.

Since the iPhone went on sale last summer, the contours of the smartphone market have begun to shift rapidly toward consumers.

When I last met Peter Hambro he gave me a 10-tola gold ingot to hold. That was last November, when the gold price was $806 (£403) per ounce and the bar was worth about £1,000. It was tiny,...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Although many commentators are talking as if the Federal Reserve has already decided to cut interest rates by a quarter-point rate cut next week followed by a pause over the summer, there is a chance the Fed could instead decide to just pause right here, Fed watchers said.

Economic worries are growing but the stock market is holding firm.

TRIESTE (MarketWatch) -- Assicurazioni Generali SpA (G.MI) chairman Antoine Bernheim Saturday said that the company is looking at the insurance businesses of Royal Bank of Scotland Plc (RBS.LN) Direct Line and Churchill Insurance Group. 'We don't know the price of those operations and, in fact, even if they are up for sale,' Bernheim said during a press conference. According to press reports, Royal Bank of Scotland is expected to sell its insurance businesses as part of its capital-raising effort to cover increased write-downs on the value of toxic assets and help repair one of the sector's most stretched balance sheets.

Saleh & Abdulaziz Abahsain Company soars into new frontiers and expands into the Gulf market by launching a new glass fiber plant in Bahrain.

Economic Calendar for April 28, 2008 Vital economic data can make or break a trade...

Leading supermarkets including Tesco, Sainsbury and Morrisons have been named in a report on tobacco price-fixing by the Office of Fair Trading. The OFT has been investigating alleged deals between ...

Can Actively Managed ETFs Beat the market? 'The actively managed exchange traded fund (ETF) doesn't seem to be turning...