WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Saturday called on the U.S. Congress to back his efforts for tough new financial industry oversight, saying a $2 billion trading loss at JPMorgan underscored the need for such regulation. “We’ve got to finish the job of implementing this reform and putting these rules in place,” Obama...
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Workers whose jobs require them to interact with people in foreign countries say that English is the dominant language of business, according to a new poll. More than one quarter of employees in 26 countries around the world told an Ipsos poll that their jobs involve dealing with people in...
By Dominic Lau TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan's Nikkei share average inched higher on Monday to end a three-day losing streak as China's monetary easing countered unease ahead of Greece's last-ditch attempt to … (get the story…)
LONDON (Reuters) – Rebekah Brooks, a former top lieutenant in Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, will learn on Tuesday whether she will be charged as part of a phone-hacking scandal at one of his British newspapers. Police launched an investigation in January last year into allegations that journalists at the News of the World tabloid...
TOKYO, May 14 (Reuters) – Key rubber futures on the TokyoCommodities Exchange rose from a four-month low early on Mondayas concerns about Greece's future in the euro were offset by aboost for the market … (read more here…)
By Dominic Lau TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan's Nikkei share average fell 1.5 percent on Wednesday to a fresh three-month closing low as concerns grew that Greece could reject its hard-won bailout deal with international … (get the story…)
