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Bullish trend continued in the Karachi Stock Exchange on Friday and the KSE index reached the much awaited level of 10,000 points during its last trading session of the week.
The KSE-100 index closed at 10,025 after gaining 146 points towards the end of the session as healthy buying spurred the index to breach...
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KARACHI PAKISTAN: Cotton Association of India (CAI) and Karachi Cotton Association (KCA) have reached an agreement to abolish all existing barriers in way of cotton trade between two neighbours.
President CAI Dheran N Seth visited KCA here on Saturday wherein he called on President KCA Sohail Naseem.
During the sitting, the heads of two cotton associations...
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Forbes is out on the annual list of billionaires, and we are here today to shed light on the various hedge fund managers on the list. In the past, and we also put posters in last year’s Forbes billionaire list if you want to compare the two.
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim tops the list this...
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GENEVA: Information on 24,000 HSBC customers with Swiss accounts has been stolen, the British bank said Thursday, potentially exposing large numbers of international clients to prosecution by tax authorities in their home countries.
A former IT employee of Swiss subsidiary HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA, identified by French authorities as Herve Falciani, stole the information...
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WASHINGTON: The US posted its largest budget deficit on record in February as the government boosted spending to help revive the economy.
The excess of spending over revenue increased to $US221 billion last month, compared with a deficit of $US194 billion in February 2009, according to Treasury Department figures released today in Washington.
In fiscal 2009...
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SINGAPORE: Oil prices fell below $82 a barrel Thursday in Asia as traders eyed tepid U.S. crude demand amid an overall economic expansion.
Benchmark crude for April delivery was down 51 cents to $81.58 a barrel at midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 60 cents to...
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Latest Update News:-Google just launched a new Google Apps Marketplace where users can discover and deploy third-party cloud applications that integrate with their existing Google Apps accounts.
Give the video above a watch for a full overview of how Google Apps Marketplace apps work, or, summed up from the Google Apps Marketplace homepage:
The Google Apps...
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SINGAPORE: Oil declined in Asian trade Tuesday amid fading euphoria over better-than-expected US jobs data, analysts said.
New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for April delivery, was off 32 cents to 81.55 dollars a barrel.
Brent North Sea crude for April delivery eased 23 cents to 80.24 dollars.
Oil struggled Monday to extend last week’s rally,...
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HONG KONG : Asian stock markets were mixed in early trade on Wednesday due to a lack of firm direction as dealers awaited the impact of key Chinese economic numbers.
Beijing said its trade surplus reached 7.61 billion dollars in February and its exports for that month totalled 94.5 billion dollars — up 45.7 percent...
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