May 19- The beginning of the end of the Federal Reserve's massive bond-buying program might come sooner than many investors think if recent gains in the U.S. labor market do not prove fleeting.
SEOUL/ SINGAPORE, May 13- Petrochemical firms risk creating a glut of high-end products in Asia as they invest billions of dollars to move up a value chain threatened at the bottom end by cheap U.S. ethylene.
*CEO says Italy, Spain, Portugal starting to improve. ZURICH, May 7- Adecco, the world's largest staffing company, said there were signs austerity-ravaged markets in southern Europe were starting to stabilise as big drops in wages make workers there more competitive.
NEW YORK/ HONG KONG, May 2- Where there's an investing niche, there's probably an exchange-traded fund that exploits it. Almost all U.S.-listed ETFs focusing on Chinese stocks are confined to the Hong Kong- listed H-shares represented in global equity indexes or companies such as technology giants Baidu and Sina Corp that trade on U.S. exchanges.
MILAN, April 29- Italian carmaker Fiat sees the European car market falling between 3 percent and 5 percent in 2013, according to a slide presentation posted on its website on Monday. "In light of demand levels during the first quarter... the market is now seen down in the 3-5 percent range," Fiat said in the presentation.