CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – NASA delayed Friday’s launch of space shuttle Endeavour because of a glitch but the grounded crew and the commander’s wounded wife got a chance to greet President Barack Obama as he toured the Kennedy Space Center.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The search for intelligent life in the universe beyond planet Earth has been dealt a major blow by government spending cutbacks in the United States.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The search for intelligent life in the universe, at least beyond planet Earth, has been dealt a major blow by government budget constraints.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks rose on Friday on strength from Caterpillar and other industrials, lifting the Dow and Nasdaq to their best monthly performance since December.
OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) – Warren Buffett may be under fire from New York investment managers over a scandal involving one of his former lieutenants, but on his home turf his most loyal shareholders think he is doing just fine.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The trillion credit default swaps market came under investigation on Friday by the European Union, adding to official pressures bearing down on a huge and opaque business that is widely blamed for aggravating the recent banking and euro zone debt crises.
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp shares fell as much as 5 percent on Friday, a day after the software company reported a dip in its Windows operating system sales.
TOKYO (Reuters) – Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said on Saturday that the country’s economic outlook was very severe and that the central bank would take appropriate action to support the economy.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In a big win for business, the Treasury proposed on Friday to exempt commonly used foreign exchange swaps and forwards from the most onerous new rules for the derivatives market.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Gold surged to a record high on Friday for the third straight day, as investors kept up a buying frenzy fueled by the outlook for low U.S. interest rates that has propelled bullion to its seventh consecutive weekly rise, its longest winning streak since 2007.
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