Sunday, June 08, 2008

Quick Overview

  • (Dow Jones)--Trading in the global exchange-traded derivatives markets grew to a value of $692 trillion at the end of the first quarter of this year, a rise of over 28% from the last quarter of 2007, the Bank for International Settlements said Sunday.

  • (AP)--Thousands of demonstrators fought with police after a protest over flour rations in a town on Egypt's Mediterranean coast.

  • Argentina's farmers will lift their blockade on grain export sales starting Monday.

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