Russia's President Vladimir Putin warned world leaders at the G20 Summit that economic risks remained. "Our main task is returning the global economy towards steady and balanced growth. This task has unfortunately not been resolved. ...
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U.S. oil prices declined Friday, continuing to pull back from a mid-week rally sparked by the Federal Reserve's surprise decision to continue its easy money policies, while concerns over Middle East supply disruptions continued to fade ...
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The premium of ultra low sulfur diesel barges over 50 ppm gasoil barges has moved to its widest point since May 1, with ULSD trading at a $9.75/mt premium to 50 ppm, Platts data showed Monday. Rising ULSD premiums in Northwest Europe have ...
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Twitter has announced that it is to file for an initial public offering (IPO) with the US regulators. The filing is confidential, as is allowed under US law for corporations with less than $1bn in revenue. Such companies do not have to ...
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Oil prices gained Wednesday as U. S. crude inventories decreased last week. Energy Information Administration said Wednesday crude supplies shrank 200,000 barrels to 360 million barrels for the week ending Sept 6. Gasoline supplies rose ...
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ICE Cotton closed almost unchanged on the week at just over 83 c/lbs, as specs continued reducing their long position while the trade bought back hedges against physical sales. Demand woke up from a range of markets with futures under ...
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Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange on Wednesday went down to settle at their lowest in nearly two weeks, as the US faced opposition from Russia on a military strike against Syria, eroding demand for gold ...
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European light ends outright values reached six-month highs, tracking rising crude values, as prices soared amidst growing tensions in Syria. "It's rallying with the crude," said one source, referring to the strengthening of the Northwest ...
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The New York Times website was unavailable to its readers yesterday afternoon in the US, after a cyber attack on the organisation's web host, Melbourne IT. Twitter, which uses Melbourne IT as a domain name registrar, was also affected by ...
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The New York Times blamed a prolonged website outage on Tuesday on a hacking attack at the company's Australia-based domain name registrar, Melbourne IT. A story published by The Times on Tuesday afternoon quoted the company's CIO, Marc ...
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The Australian dollar is slugging it out with the Syrian pound for the title of world's worst-performing currency. Once the darling of foreign-exchange traders, the Aussie has been out of favour since April 12. According to National ...
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Twitter's SMS-based, two-factor authentication feature could be abused to lock users who don't have it enabled out of their accounts if attackers gain access to their log-in credentials, according to researchers from Finnish anti-virus ...
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Much-hacked social networking site Twitter has finally introduced two-factor authentication in a bid to cut down on the hijacking of accounts. The move follows a string of hacks of high-profile accounts by groups such as the ...
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Donations to WikiLeaks since January have only been enough to cover expenditures in essential infrastructure, such as servers, according to a transparency report. Donations have been declining substantially over the last two years, the ...
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Twitter will offer users two-factor authentication when they sign in as "a second check to make sure it's really you". Twitter is stepping up its security measures following a series of high-profile breaches by hackers hitting media ...
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