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Crude rose lifted by better-than-expected data on German business sentiment that helped

Silver edged modestly higher in subdued trade boosted by a broadly weaker U.S.

Gold ended nearly flat logging declines for two of the past three weeks as investors took to the sideli

Smartphone maker, HTC might be planning to release its much anticipated HTC One X smartphone on AT&T smartphone on 6 May, 2012.

According to reports, the data is official date for the launch of the smartphone, which will be the first Ice Cream Sandwich-powered Android smartphone from the carrier, in the US market. The smartphone has received a lot of attention due to its quad-core Tegra 3 processor however the AT&T version of the device will not come with the Nvidia's chipset because it is not compatible with the new 4G network of the company.

Software giant, Microsoft has said that its earnings have risen 6 per cent to US $ 17.41 billion for its third quarter compared to US $ 16.4 billion during the same period previous quarter.

The net income for the company fell to US $ 5.11 billion in the third quarter compared to US $ 5.23 billion in the same quarter in the previous year. The earnings per share fell compared to $0.60 versus $0.61 a year ago.