The FINANCIAL -- US wheat rose for the fifth day in a row on Friday as short sellers exited the market on increased hopes for a solution to the Eurozone debt crisis and signs the US economy was healing, according to gulfnews.

The FINANCIAL -- Equity investors in India should get a shot in the arm from the signs of a pick-up in the US economy and concerted moves by Western central banks to throw a lifeline to European banks struggling with the Eurozone debt crisis.

The FINANCIAL -- Forty is this week's happy number. As an experienced Al Barsha-based cyclist, it's great to see Emirati pride and passion communicated through a range of ways The nation's flag can be hung or a car can be adorned, told gulfnews.

The FINANCIAL -- Oil prices rose more than 4 per cent last week after a series of developments suggested that higher oil demand and tighter global supplies lay ahead, according to gulfnews.