Stanley Fischer, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve System, speaks with demonstrators from the Center for Popular Democracy at the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming August 22, 2014. Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer has been tapped to head a new financial

In many developed countries around the world, tap water is widely considered to better for you than the bottled variety and subject to more stringent safety checks. Why then do we insist on purchasing something which is up to 300 times more expensive than what comes out of our taps?    Photo

German utility E.ON posted a 12 percent drop in first-half core profit, hit by a weakening economy in Russia, and said it was concerned about the impact of the Ukraine crisis on its most important foreign market Consumer goods group Henkel forecast a tough six months ahead, with political turmoil