Investment funds that have ploughed tens of billions into commodities are now sniffing around Australia's small wool futures market for a new play as surging food prices begin to reduce land for grazing.
As Western fashion brands look to Asia to provide cheap skilled labour, two Hong Kong-based designers are bucking the trend.
Myanmar has launched a new gems auction hoping to sell off more than 100 million euros (153 million dollars) worth of precious stones, despite calls for a boycott, organisers said Tuesday March 11th.
Singapore's GIC sovereign wealth fund is to take a 14.3 percent stake in the Benetton family's holding company, Luxembourg-based Sintonia SA, for one billion euros (1.53 billion dollars), Sintonia said Tuesday March 11th.
Few in France would recognize Christian Audigier, but the designer has become the country's hottest export after his creations made him the darling of Hollywood's biggest stars.
French fashion house Chloe said Monday March 10th it had appointed Britain's Hannah MacGibbon as its new chief designer, taking over from Sweden's Paulo Melim Andersson.
For decades, China's massive workforce of factory hands and construction workers had little choice but to work long hours in often poor conditions for pitifully low salaries.
If it succeeds in its lofty aims, the first shop in Palermo showcasing goods from businesses who refuse to pay Mafia extortion fees will eventually be forced out of business.
Belgian authorities on Friday March 7th launched an appeal for witnesses in the search for Somali-born former model Waris Dirie, a campaigner against female genital mutilation who went missing early Wednesday.
Sales of a bracelet will go towards a U.N. fund to combat violence against women under a plan announced on Tuesday by the United Nations, the Avon cosmetics company and movie star Reese Witherspoon. Avon Products Inc.
Major department store chains reported lower February same-store sales on Thursday as consumers spent less on home goods and women's apparel in the weaker U.S. economy. J.C. Penney Co Inc reported a 6.
Warren Buffett, the famed U.S. investor who heads Berkshire Hathaway Inc, replaced his friend and Microsoft Corp founder Bill Gates as the richest man in the world, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday.
Herewith the 20 richest people in the world, according to Forbes magazine's annual list of billionaires.
US financier Warren Buffett has overtaken Bill Gates as the world's richest man, according to Forbes annual billionaire's list, which this year saw Russia, China and India making increasing inroads.
Hong Kong's famed solid gold toilet is, well, a fixture on the city's tourist itinerary. But with gold prices touching record highs, part of the site could soon be headed down the pan.
