MPOWER Ventures, LP, a socially committed venture fund dedicated to investing in solutions that empower the underserved worldwide, today announced a commitment worth $100 million to invest in seed and early stage companies developing financial services an

(RTTNews) - The major U.S. index futures are pointing to a lower opening on Friday. Global cues are markedly negative, with the European markets trading significantly lower. Oil is climbing sharply on the back of geopolitical tensions and this should trig

20 August 2008 Inflation is the biggest threat to the planned Gulf Co-operation Council monetary union, the chief economist at Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), warned yesterday.

Pick your poison. BW looks at the two major party platforms this week in Platform Diving . You can read the platforms for yourself here, on the BW Beat.... By Nathaniel Hoffman.

If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to issue minimum-wage checks to 200,000 state workers in less than a month, he should explore whether he terminated any semi-retired computer programmers last week.