Treasuries gained, pushing 10-year note yields to the lowest level since December, as Europe’s debt crisis worsened and the Federal Reserve squelched speculation it would provide more stimulus while the economic recovery slowed.
German President Christian Wulff cancelled a planned visit on Saturday to the steelworks of German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp AG in Rio de Janeiro after the company announced a major cost-cutting shake-up.
The International Monetary Fund has been pushing Athens behind the scenes to restructure its debt. The organization no longer believes that the current austerity measures and EU bailout will be enough to extract Greece from its fiscal mire.
There is evidence that central banks in several regions of the World are building up their gold reserves. What is published are the official purchases.
BP will start drilling off the Libyan coast within a few weeks, the Financial Times reported Saturday, amid a row over the oil giants connections to the north African state.
The head of the American Association of Professors accused BP Friday of trying to buy the silence of scientists and academics to protect itself after the Gulf oil spill, in a BBC interview.
Exxon Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Royal Dutch Shell announced they would each contribute 250 million dollars to create a non-profit group, the Marine Well Containment Company, to contain oil. BP was not included in the plans.
Warren Buffett said Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is among the counterparties on derivative trades that contributed last year to a first-quarter loss at his Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Shares of Goldman Sachs slumped on Friday amid reports that the under-fire investment bank faced a criminal probe into its mortgage dealings ahead of the 2008 financial crisis.
The US Defence Department said Wednesday it was willing to issue a 60-day extension of the deadline for bids on a lucrative contract to build the next generation of aerial refuellers.