Libya Clash And Stocks

Libya has shipped the last of its chemical weapons stocks out of the country, officials said today, under a UN-backed plan to ensure the arsenal could not fall into the wrong hands.

Most Asian shares fell Thursday as surging oil prices, violence in Libya and a weak finish on Wall Street kept markets on edge. Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average lost 0.7 percent to 10,506.16 as a strong yen pressured exporters. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was down 0.5 percent at 4,821.30. Benchmarks in Singapore and New Zealand also declin...

Fears that Libya is heading toward deepening chaos hit stocks Monday and pushed oil prices sharply higher. With reports suggesting that over 200 people have been killed in clashes across the country, which have spread to the capital Tripoli, investors are getting increasingly worried about the escalating violence in one of Africa's biggest ...

Libya has shipped the last of its chemical weapons stocks out of the country, officials said today, under a UN-backed plan to ensure the arsenal could not fall into the wrong hands.

Most Asian shares fell Thursday as surging oil prices, violence in Libya and a weak finish on Wall Street kept markets on edge. Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average lost 0.7 percent to 10,506.16 as a strong yen pressured exporters. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was down 0.5 percent at 4,821.30. Benchmarks in Singapore and New Zealand also declin...

Fears that Libya is heading toward deepening chaos hit stocks Monday and pushed oil prices sharply higher. With reports suggesting that over 200 people have been killed in clashes across the country, which have spread to the capital Tripoli, investors are getting increasingly worried about the escalating violence in one of Africa's biggest ...