yen makes Japanese exports more competitive and improves overseas profits when the revenues are repatriated. On currency markets at 9 am (0000 GMT), the dollar traded at 84.41-51 yen, up from Friday's…
THE dollar opened at fresh monthly highs, up more than US0.5c after the release on Friday of better-than-expected key US jobs figures.
Oil prices fell below $75 a barrel Friday ahead of closely watched US employment report that will inform traders about the strength of future energy demand from the No. 1 economy
On Saturday 4 September 2010, 6:21 EST US stocks closed higher on Friday after a much anticipated jobs report lifted hopes that the US economic recovery is on the right track.The Dow Jones Industri…
President Barack Obama salutes as he walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010, to spend the weekend at Camp David, Md. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) WASH…