Results for economic downturn: 452

* EDF Q1 sales up 15.1 pct, tops forecasts * Enel sees good profitability despite weak scenario * EDF says resisting well despite tough economic conditions * Enel's debt at 50.831 bln euros at end-March...

* EDF Q1 sales up 15.1 pct, tops forecasts * Enel sees good profitability despite weak scenario * EDF says resisting well despite tough economic conditions * Enel's debt at 50.831 bln euros at end-March...

* Japan plans extra $100 bln economic stimulus * European, Asian stock markets higher * Gold slips towards 2.5-month low as risk appetite rises (Updates throughout, changes dateline, pvs PERTH/SEOUL) LONDON, April 6 - Oil...

SEOUL, March 9 - South Korea's building permits awarded in January amounted to about half the space awarded in the year-ago period, data showed on Monday, adding to concerns that Asia's fourth-largest economy is on...

Singapore The Straits Times (independent), Nov. 2: The last great period of globalization a century ago was ended by the onset of world war and a century-long struggle between political ideologies. It was not inconceivable that the hijacking of four airliners could prove as consequential as the assassination of an Austrian archduke.

LONDON, Oct 30 - Global sales of Fairtrade coffee are holding up well despite an economic slowdown, coffee dealers and farmers' unions said on Thursday. The Fairtrade system helps farmers and workers from poor countries...

HONG KONG, Oct 20 - A spate of corporate bankruptcies in Hong Kong highlights the territory's vulnerability to the credit crisis and the slowing global economy, clouding the outlook for its banking sector. In the...

LONDON, Sept 23 - Companies remain determinedly bullish about prospects in emerging markets, despite recent market turmoil which has savaged developing stock markets, a survey said on Tuesday. Emerging stocks have lost about a third...

As the credit crunch threatens to throw the economy into a deep slump, Americans are already cutting back on health care, a sector once thought to be invulnerable to recession. Spending on everything from doctors' appointments to preventive tests to prescription drugs is under pressure.

TUCSON, Ariz., Feb 20 - On a gritty corner in Tucson, Arizona, used tire store owner Andy Alexander says business is fine despite the economic downturn -- and partly because of it. "When people come...