This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Commodities are basic materials that are used and traded worldwide. The price of commodities helps determine how much a business can charge for a product and the profit it can make. Commodity prices h...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Carol Van Dam. Federal regulator sued Bank of America today, accusing the bank of failing to disclose what it calls staggering financial losses at Merrill Lynch before a merger of the company was approved. The suit fi...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 01 September 2007 The world's biggest aircraft manufacturers are in the race to supply the Indian air force with 126 new fighter jets in a deal worth an estimated $10 billion. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, th...
By Melinda Smith Washington 14 May 2007 Top executives of the company that makes a powerful painkiller called Oxycontin admitted this week they lied about the drug's addictive qualities in order to boost sales. As VOA's Melinda Smith reports, worldwi...
By Martin Secrest Washington, D.C. 18 April 2007 There may have been advances in the development of a vaccine to protect people against the H5N1 avian influenza virus, or bird flu. Researchers say it could be possible to substantially increase global...