Tag: Wall

With Hezbollah in mind, Israel builds a new wall

ROSH HANIQRA: High in the hills above the Mediterranean, Israeli troops worked while soldiers from a country still technically at war with them peered...

WCLA dismisses reports of Lahore Fort’s historic wall collapse

Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA) has dismissed the reports circulating on social media that historic wall of Lahore Fort had collapsed due to...

Female journalists protest being ‘penned in’ during Pence Western Wall visit

JERUSALEM: Women journalists covering US Vice President Mike Pence's visit Tuesday to the Western Wall criticised what they called discrimination after being forced to...

Trump disputes report on Trump-Kim relation in Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON: Donald Trump has disputed a newspaper’s account of an interview with him last week in which he was quoted as saying he probably had...

Trump orders wall construction, angering Mexico

President Donald Trump ordered work to begin on building a wall across the Mexican border, angering his southern neighbour with his hardline stance on...

Palestinian teen’s name erased from Israel memorial wall

The name of a Palestinian teen burned alive by his Jewish kidnappers has been removed from a memorial to victims of terror attacks, an...

India plans wall along LoC, NA told

National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz on Friday told the National Assembly that India to build a concrete wall along the Line of Control (LoC)...

Wall Street economists see Fed’s Treasury buying ending in 2013: poll

Economists at nine of 16 primary dealers — the large financial institutions that do business directly with the Fed — said they expect the...

Wall Street firms slightly after jobs, ISM data

Data from the Institute for Supply Management showed the vast U.S. services sector in December grew at its fastest clip in 10 months, boosted...

Financial reform’s breakthrough year

Here’s an odd prediction for the coming year: 2013 will be a watershed for financial reform. True, while the global financial crisis erupted more...

A lump of coal for ‘Fiscal Cliff-mas’

A traditionally quiet week could become hellish for traders as politicians in Washington are likely to fall short of an agreement to deal with...

Holiday ‘on standby’ as clock ticks on cliff

Last-minute negotiations in Washington on the so-called fiscal cliff - nearly $600 billion of tax increases and spending cuts set to take effect in...

Wall Street ends flat as ‘fiscal cliff’ focus lingers

Trading has been choppy in the last two weeks as investors react to statements from policymakers on the state of discussions on how to...

Wall Street week ahead: Going off ‘cliff’ with a bungee cord

All these events, in the end, turned out to be buying opportunities for stocks. So will the "fiscal cliff," some investors say as they...

‘Fiscal cliff’ blues may lead to correction

The benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 .SPX closed below its 200-day moving average - a measure of the market’s long-term trend - on Thursday...

Wall Street to Washington: Time to compromise on fiscal cliff

With $600 billion in tax increases and automatic spending cuts due to take effect in January, investors say they would welcome an agreement that...

Obama’s shoes hard to fill, even for himself

The benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 Index .SPX.INX has rallied 66 percent since President Barack Obama took office - one of the most impressive...