SOTOGRANDE, Spain (AP) ― Sergio Garcia held off fellow Spaniard Miguel Angel Jimenez to win the Andalucia Masters by one shot on Sunday for his second straight European Tour victory.Garcia shook off two early bogeys with two birdies on a flawless back nine to card an even 71 and finish with a 6-under total of 278 at the Valderrama course.“It’s very, very special. Valderrama ... I have so much history here and unfortunately it wasn’t as good as this until now,” said Garcia, who had previously fin

Bale’s double leads Spurs to win over QPRROME (AP) ― Antonio Di Natale scored his league-leading seventh goal and Udinese edged Palermo 1-0 Sunday to move back within a point of Serie A leader Juventus.Serie A’s top scorer from the past two seasons found the target with a volley from the center of the area in the 38th minute at Udine’s Stadio Friuli.Di Natale also hit the crossbar in the 10th and squandered a great chance to double the lead two minutes after his goal.Palermo pushed for an equali

South Korea’s STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co. said Monday its Canadian unit will participate in an Ottawa government-led 36 trillion won ($32.7 billion) project to build a large fleet of ships.STX Canada Marine Inc. will sign a formal contract with Canada’s Seaspan Corp. to jointly build non-combat ships including support ships, ice breakers and sea exploration vessels, STX Offshore & Shipbuilding said.The construction of the non-combat vessels is estimated to be worth 9 trillion won, but STX Of

The use of Internet banking in South Korea accelerated in the third quarter from three months earlier as more people conducted financial transactions online, the central bank said Monday.Online banking transactions reached an average of 38.7 million per day in the July-September period, up 1.4 percent from the previous quarter, according to the Bank of Korea.The third-quarter data valued at 32 trillion won ($29.1 billion) quickened from a 0.8 percent expansion tallied in the second quarter. The

South Korean manufacturers’ business confidence for November fell to an over 2-year low as dimmer global economic prospects heightened uncertainty, the central bank said Monday.The index of manufacturers’ outlook on business conditions reached 82 for November, down from 86 tallied for October, according to the Bank of Korea. The index measures manufacturers’ expectations for the coming month.The November outlook marked the lowest level since the index came in at 80 for August 2009.A reading belo

Renegotiating the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement is impossible and the investor-state dispute or ISD settlement clause is a long-standing international practice, Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon said Monday, rejecting the opposition parties’ call for the clause to be removed from the accord.Speaking on a local radio station, Kim said Korea has been including ISD settlement clauses in agreements with other nations since 1976 and that the clause has not proved damaging to Korea since.The “ISD clause

South Korean stocks finished 1.06 percent lower Monday as institutional investors reduced shares in banks and manufacturers after their gains last week, analysts said.The local currency fell against the U.S. dollar. Snapping a three-day winning streak, the benchmark KOSPI lost 20.45 points to 1,909.03.Trading volume was moderate at 387 million shares worth 6.3 trillion won ($5.71 billion) with losers leading gainers 535 to 291. “Investors locked in profit after short-term surges,” said Lee Jae-m

The Fair Trade Commission said Monday that it has imposed 5.08 billion won ($4.59 million) in fines on SK Group for violating a law banning a holding company from possessing a financial unit. Under the current antitrust law, a holding company with 100 billion won or more in assets is not allowed to own a financial affiliate. When SK turned into a holding company in March 2007, the group’s trading arm SK Networks should have dumped its 22.7 percent share of SK Securities, its “daughter company.”