NEW YORK, Nov 19 (Reuters) - U.S. crude futures rose midday on Wednesday, recovering from earlier losses after finding support from heating oil futures, which were lifted by cold weather in the U.S. Northeast, the biggest market for the home heating fuel.

NEW YORK, Nov 19 (Reuters) - An unexpected draw in U.S. distillates inventories pushed up the futures benchmark with New York Harbor cash heating oil keeping pace due to increased demand due to cold Northeast weather, traders said Wednesday. Midwest diesel prices edged higher but slowing demand and increased production pushed differentials down along the Gulf Coast, traders added. However, a ...

BEIJING, Nov 19 (Reuters) - China will offer more tax and fee breaks for textile, garment and some other light industrial firms to help them weather drooping external demand, the state council, or the cabinet, said on Wednesday. Since July, China has twice increased refunds of value-added taxes to textile exporters, a big job creator in the world's most populous country. It has also raised ...

WALES has been warned to brace itself for a blast of icy and wintry weather this weekend, but forecasters are still uncertain over the prospects of a white Christmas.

Rachael Singh, Accountancy Age , Wednesday 19 November 2008 at 14:20:00 Pym has been likened to the weather forecaster who claimed there was no hurricane, hours before it devastated the UK Richard Pym, the chairman of Bradford and Bingley has been told by MPs that he made misleading confident statements which ultimately devastated shareholders....

LONDON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - British pubs firm Young and Co's Brewery Plc reported an increase in first-half pretax profit on Thursday, but said like-for-like sales fell over the last seven weeks in "extremely challenging" market conditions. Young's, which has 222 pubs in London and the South East, bucked the industry trend by reporting a 9.4 percent increase in pretax profit to 11.9 million ...

Footsie is still under after the Dow Jones closed below 8,000 for the first time in over five years, with more bad news on the job front from Rolls-Royce and AstraZeneca adding to the unease.

By Hidir Goktas