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A hot new smartphone can be Incredible, Vibrant, Epic or just “eh,” but no matter how it stacks up, it’s a safe bet that it will start selling at $199.
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Nothing puffs up a CEO paycheck like a flurry of pink slips.
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Question: Looking into the future of the American economy, I see tons of debt, the yoke of increasing social spending, pork-fed bureaucratic waste, the exporting of jobs and the importing of poverty. While this may paint a negative picture, I feel it’s reality. We all want to be patriotic, but aren’t there more fiscally responsible
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China’s manufacturing sector rebounded in August, calming some fears about the pace of that country’s growth.
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Stocks jumped at Wednesday’s open as investors welcomed encouraging overseas economic data and looked past mixed reports on the U.S. job market.
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The jobs picture still looks sour, but there could be light at the end of the tunnel.
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U.S. stocks were poised to start September with a bang Wednesday, as investors aimed to put last month’s dour performance behind them.
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While the private sector slashed more jobs than expected in August, overall employers aren’t planning as many cuts for the future, two separate reports showed Wednesday.
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The coverage of BP’s Deepwater Horizon spill is teaching the typically secretive oil industry something about life in the limelight. Now, the company has to account for every cent it spends.
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In kiosks, trucks and other teeny spaces, entrepreneurs with big dreams but little money are shaking up the retail scene.
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Alabama schools have been having a rough time of it, and it only looks like it’s going to get rougher. The Cotton State recently came in last place in the federal Department of Education’s Race to the Top grant competition. And a steadfast global recession combined with the Gulf Coast oil spill this summer have
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Google is adding a new feature in Gmail that will automatically spotlight important e-mails and separate out the ones you can wait to read later.
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Shares of luxury retailer Saks surged in early trade Tuesday after a British newspaper said the company could soon get a buyout offer of $1.7 billion.
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World markets slumped Tuesday, with the Nikkei ending at a 16-month low, as the yen remained strong despite efforts by the Bank of Japan to keep a lid on the Japanese currency’s rise.
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Americans calmed their nerves about the economy slightly in August, as a key measure of consumer morale made a surprising turn higher. The Consumer Confidence Index rose to 53.5 in August, from July’s upwardly revised level of 51.0, the Conference Board, a New York-based research group that compiles the index, said
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The government’s list of troubled banks hit its highest level since 1992 during the second quarter, although the pace of growth continued to slow, according to a government report released Tuesday.
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Stocks reversed course Tuesday morning as investors welcomed a better-than-expected report on consumer confidence.
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Despite a recent spate of bad news coming out of the housing industry, home prices show signs of stabilizing.
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Consumer spending rose in July, but Americans remain wary about the future of the economy. Personal spending rose by $44.1 billion last month, or 0.4%, after falling less than 0.1% in June. This came in above the 0.3% increase economists expected.
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The air is quickly coming out of the recovery balloon, and economists have mixed views on how to pump it back up.
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The Bank of Japan eased its monetary policy at an emergency meeting Monday morning, in an effort to curb the yen’s strength and lift the country’s struggling economy — though the move was not enough to satisfy investors.
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French pharmaceutical firm Sanofi-Aventis is stepping up the pressure on U.S. biotech firm Genzyme, going public with an $18.5 billion cash offer and hinting it may consider a hostile takeover if Genzyme refuses to talk.
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Hewlett-Packard and Dell’s intense bidding war for the little-known 3PAR is starting to look a little nuts.
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