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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — The dollar traded near a six-week high against the euro on speculation housing and job reports this week will ease pressure on the Federal Reserve to reduce interest rates this year.The US currency last week reached the stronge...

LONDON - Britain's top share index ended up 0.55 percent, in line with a global stocks rally, as Vodafone jumped on results, but GlaxoSmithKline fell on further fears for its diabetes drug Avandia. The FTSE 100 closed up 36 points, or 0.55 percent, a...

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) — Al Parish has exchanged his loud sports coats for gray prison scrubs and handcuffs. His purple Jaguar with the leopard-skin paint job went up for grabs on eBay. His Red Skelton paintings and million-dollar pen collec...

LONDON (Bloomberg) — UK house prices rose at the slowest pace in four months in May as interest rates at a six-year high discouraged buyers, Hometrack Ltd. said.The average cost of a home in England and Wales increased 0.6 percent from April, the lea...

TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canada's main opposition party called for a freeze on foreign buyouts to review the country's investment rules, adding pressure on the government to respond to a rash of foreign take-overs including a bid for Alcan. The Liberal ...

TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Toyota Motor Corp., wary of trumpeting its success while US automakers shut plants and cut jobs, is downplaying its sales outlook in North America, said analysts and investors — who aren't buying it.The company's sales in the regi...

The biggest privately-owned insurance company in the UK is being put up for sale for an estimated $5.95 billion ($3 billion). Towergate's executive chairman Peter Cullum, who ten years ago worked as marketing director for specialist insurer Hiscox bu...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's economy grew at the highest rate for two decades last year, reaching 6.1 percent thanks to the strong performance of the tourism, retail and communications sectors.The government's annual economic report for 2006, releas...

A new way for shoppers to give to charity at certain times of the year has proved so popular at Gibbons Company that more than $11,000 has been given back to the community. The concept was dreamt up in the run-up to last Christmas allowing customers ...

Insurers and reinsurers underestimated the exposure danger of hurricanes by a whopping 80 percent when the triple-slam of Katrina, Rita and Wilma shook the multi-billion dollar industry in the latter half of 2005. Hurricane risk models were woefully ...