Gold-digging: Investors warm up to cyberbullion
New York: A patent dispute between online marketplaces promoting gold as 21st century money symbolises a contest that is brewing for investors who are warming to cyberbullion in Thursday's nerve-racking political and economic environment.
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Even Greenspan finds economy hard to forecast
London: When the worlds most celebrated economic prognosticator says it is time for humility, then the future must be truly murky.
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Harvard fund shrinks by $800 million
Boston: Harvard University on Wednesday reported that its endowment lost money for the second year in a row, shrinking by $800m as market declines helped cut the value of the endowment to $17.5bn. 
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Washington braces for anti-IMF rallies
Washington: US police threw up a major security cordon around downtown Washington on Thursday to head off threatened anti-globalisation demonstrations around a rich countries' summit here. 
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Ireland's largest bank to sell US unit to M&T Bank
Allied Irish Banks PLC announced on Thursday it has agreed to sell its fraud-struck US subsidiary, Allfirst, to M&T Bank Corp. of New York in a deal valued at around $3.1 billion-and denied that scandal had anything to do with it.
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Merrill Lynch assistant to plead guilty to misdemeanour
New York: An assistant at Merrill Lynch & Co has agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanour and testify against Martha Stewart and others in the federal investigation of stock sales in ImClone Systems last year, The Wall Street Journal reported. 
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US treasuries inch higher in hope of weak economic data 
Washington: Treasuries eked out a modest bounce on Thursday, overlooking firmness in stock futures in the hope that US economic data would be weak enough to support speculation of a future policy easing. 
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