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Oil prices headed slightly lower Monday, marking a quiet end to a record-breaking year, although rising demand and geopolitical ...
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- International stock funds enjoyed a rising tide in the past 12 months that lifted most portfolios, and fund managers predict that 2008 will be the seventh consecutive year in which foreign-stock funds top their U.S. rivals.
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Food prices worldwide hit record highs in 2006, and all the signs are that they will go on rising this year, and for the foreseeable future. The era of cheap food, the experts say, is over and we are going to have to get used to it.
WSJ.com: Europe Markets News
Europe stocks endeda half-session of trading flat, but finished the year with the first losses since 2002 as worries about the credit crunch and rising energy prices stymied action.
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Europe stocks on Monday ended a half-session of trading steady, but finished the year with the first losses since 2002 as worries about the credit crunch and rising energy prices stymied action.
IrishExaminer.com - Business
CONCERN over job security is rising, according to a survey of Unite trade union.
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Oil prices ended the year near $96 a barrel, or 57 percent higher than where they began, and analysts expect rising demand and geopolitical instability to keep upward pressure on energy costs early in 2008.
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China, the world's biggest grain producer, will tax exports of wheat, corn and rice to increase domestic supply and control rising food prices.
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More than a quarter of businesses in the United Arab Emirates expect to be less profitable in 2008 because of the weakness of the federation's dollar-pegged currency and rising inflation, a magazine survey found.
The Seattle Times: Business, Technology
Internet sales by U.S. retailers rose at the slowest pace on record as $3-a-gallon gasoline and rising mortgage defaults weighed on holiday...