The study, conducted across Asia Pacific and the Middle East, looked at affluent consumers' spending habits, priorities, and optimism about the future and indexed their propensity to spend on discretionary items in the future. The study found that …

Apple (APPL) led a rise in technology stocks after the gadget maker beat analyst estimates for quarterly earnings and revenue. The company reported Tuesday that it shipped more iPhones in the latest quarter and also announced plans to introduce new …

Noted environmental groups such as the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, and the Audubon Society, etc. have taken great care to distinguish themselves from the more direct action-oriented groups such as the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), the Animal Liberation …

The automaker said it plans to have multiple self-driving models on the market in seven years and to have the technology available across its model range "within two vehicle generations." Cars are typically fully redesigned every five to six years, so …

8 he argued that "gold is relatively cheap." With the metal up some 20 percent from its June low, however, the editor and publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report is changing his tune. "The sentiment on gold has recovered," Faber said on Thursday's …

The business, which turned 99 years old Oct. 12, is known as a family-owned fine jewelry store. Unlike many chain stores, Alie Jewelers carries natural sapphires, rubies and emeralds, precious stones that can be hard to find in a mall. At his store …

“Exceptional large-scale ivory sculptures from the Philippines are rare surviving evidence of the Manila-Acapulco luxury trade during the 17th and 18th centuries,” Tinio says. Another figure for bidding is the figure of the Sto. Niño with an ivory head …

It's not just a gadget thing – we have to amaze people throughout the period that they use it." Some companies are more overt in their bids to attract gadget-mad dads (never mind the mothers who are hardcore technology fans). High–end buggy …

Providing a solution, the chief of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council C Rangarajan noted that India could tolerate $30 billion worth of gold imports and not the high imports brought in last year. A major reason for India's high current …