OREC: A global cartel for rice Until last week, the next oil the critical resource growing ever scarcer and prompting desperate behaviour to ensure supplies was water. Turns out, its rice.
MICROSOFTS YAHOO BID FAILS
Google plays the deal spoiler A combined Microsoft-Yahoo would create a powerful competitor, and Google early on indicated that it would fight the merger on antitrust grounds in Washington and Brussels.
Olympic stocks stumble in China on profit concerns The biggest beneficiaries of the Beijing Olympics are turning into also-rans on concern their shares climbed more than justified by the potential to profit from the August athletic contests.
FALLING STOCK MARKET
Four ways to invest Investors must build a well-diversified portfolio which can prove resilient enough over various markets cycles.
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