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• Smartphones will shake up paid content debate

  11 Mar 2010

  ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Media companies longing to bring a paid-for culture to the Internet might just get what they want if they pay more attention to the smartphone revolution that is changing the way people access the Web...More

• Watches may signal time for dental implant recovery

  11 Mar 2010

  ZURICH (Reuters) - Dental implant makers lost their shine as a recession-proof investment during the global crisis, which turned fixing smiles into a luxury for consumers who struggled to pay for non-essential work on their mouths...More

• Dream on United fans, Glazers don't have to sell

  11 Mar 2010

  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Manchester United fans hoping another group can buy the Premier League champions from the Glazers can stop dreaming, said analysts and bankers...More

• Race to the bottom with G4 currency rhetoric

  10 Mar 2010

  LONDON (Reuters) - With economic policy stimuli already at full tilt, no government wants an overvalued exchange rate to slay recovery, and the rival "soft currency" needs are producing some elaborate rhetorical jousting...More

• Investors set to rediscover Southeast Asia

  10 Mar 2010

  HONG KONG (Reuters) - A year after Asian stocks began to rise, investors should turn their attention to Southeast Asia, which lagged the wider rally and where exporters are set to thrive on growth in China and India...More

• Greek CDS overtures fall on deaf ears in Washington

  10 Mar 2010

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Greek leaders' overtures for far tougher curbs on credit default swaps fell largely on deaf ears in Washington, but they'll go back to Athens with some sage advice from local policy wonks: look in the mirror and don't blame market messengers for your debt woes...More

• AIM property IPOs set to stay torpid, investors wary

  10 Mar 2010

  LONDON (Reuters) - A dearth of real estate firms listing on the London Stock Exchange's junior market is unlikely to change before 2012, even as the property market revives, with gun-shy investors only willing to back proven asset managers...More

• Middle East oil demand to outpace world with petrodollars

  08 Mar 2010

  DUBAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Middle East oil demand could grow by nearly 5 percent in 2010, outpacing a modest recovery in global energy demand as the world's top oil exporting governments continue spending petrodollars to boost economies, analysts said...More

• China coal hunger to put a floor under prices

  05 Mar 2010

  SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's appetite for imported coal will provide a solid floor for global prices of the commodity this year, but its imports may miss last year's peak as price-sensitive buyers shy from rebounding prices...More

• AIG unit sale shows more buyers could hijack IPOs

  05 Mar 2010

  LONDON (Reuters) - More buyers could hijack planned flotations at the last minute after Prudential's surprise purchase of AIG's Asian life insurance unit showed the benefits of such "dual track" disposals...More

• European capex outlook fillip for tech and industrial companies

  05 Mar 2010

  LONDON (Reuters) - European corporate investment is set to rise after a tough period and shares of firms in the industrial, technology and oil service sectors stand to benefit the most...More

• Deja vu for cotton - rally evokes 2008 spike

  04 Mar 2010

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A rally in the cotton market to a two-year high this month has stirred ugly memories of a spike in 2008 that eventually drove several merchants out of business...More

• Investors develop a taste for U.S. cattle futures

  04 Mar 2010

  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Investors seeking strong returns in the commodity markets have been pouring money into U.S. cattle futures, sending prices to 15-month highs and boosting February volume 27 percent from a year ago...More

• Bumps ahead for European car shares

  04 Mar 2010

  LONDON (Reuters) - Equity investors are expected to stay away from most European auto firms this year as issues from chronic overcapacity to poor demand undermine confidence, though the premium car segment has potential to shine...More

• Hung parliament prospects cast pall over sterling

  03 Mar 2010

  LONDON (Reuters) - Prospects for a hung parliament that would wreck any positive sentiment towards sterling forced economists in the latest monthly Reuters foreign exchange poll to slash their forecasts for the pound against the dollar...More

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