HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian equities slid on Tuesday after signs of a deepening global economic slump slammed stocks worldwide the previous day, driving benchmark U.S. Treasury yields to their lowest since the 1950s.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Boeing Co's second-largest union voted on Monday to approve the company's four-year contract offer, avoiding a second damaging strike at the plane maker's Seattle-area plants.
(Reuters) - The U.S. government should provide a federal guaranty to meet American International Group Inc's counterparty collateral requirements, the insurer's former Chief Executive Maurice Greenberg said.
SYDNEY/TOKYO (Reuters) - Australia slashed interest rates and the Bank of Japan moved to ease an acute cash crunch for companies, kicking off another round of global central bank action to soothe markets and shore up crumbling economies.
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, unveiled the N97 on Tuesday, a new flagship model with a large touch screen which it hopes will bolster its smartphone offering.