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Marissa Mayer, just by being Marissa Mayer, has done more to move Yahoo forward in her first six months as chief executive than any of her five predecessors did over as many years. An accomplished engineer and executive, Mayer joined Yahoo from Google as a Silicon Valley celebrity. Since then...

NEW YORK: Oil rose for a fourth day last weekend asUS consumer confidence improved, signalling the economy is recovering, and tensions rose in the Middle East. Futures capped a third weekly gain as the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index beat expectations and the...

World Bank lifts China ’07 growth forecast to 10.4% BEIJING: The World Bank raised its forecast for China’s economic growth this year to 10.4% from an earlier 9.6% and urged Beijing to reduce its reliance on exports by boosting domestic consumption. China’s economic growth is still driven...