LONDON - Shocked investors sent European share prices sharply lower and panic buying caused oil and gold prices to soar in response to the apparent terrorist attacks Tuesday in New York and Washington. The FTSE 100 index of...

...years. Beijing is trying to curb rising investment that has been keeping economic growth at over 9 percent a year, caused oil demand to surge and has pushed inflation to a seven-year high. Some analysts believe the recent oil price rally is...

...Venezuela and Nigeria have pushed prices higher for several months. Sporadic attacks against oil pipelines in Iraq have also caused oil prices to jump. On Tuesday, the president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Purnomo Yusgiantoro...

...Financial Center, which was not directly hit in the plane assault. In Europe, stocks closed sharply lower and panic buying caused oil and gold prices to soar as investors looked for the safest, least risky places possible to place their cash. Bond prices...