The U.S. dollar was sharply weaker Friday as stocks drifted...

Auditors, former executives, Barclays Bank, and Wall Street banks have copped a serve from a court-appointer examiner who probed the Lehman Brothers...

Australia's biggest banks are gouging its customers, the Reserve Bank of Australia...

Junk bonds and other risky investment instruments are being sought after, pushing prices above those of investment grade...

The US Ambassador to India Timothy J. Roemer on Thursday inaugurated an annual international food festival 'Aahar-2010' in the national...

San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen is expected to be nominated to become Ben Bernanke's...

The American president told the U.S. Export-Import Bank in Washington he was launching a new strategy to improve...

In the US, the school board in Kansas City has decided to close 26 of the city's 59 public schools to keep the district afloat...

NEW YORK - Shares of QAD Inc. sank Friday after the business software provider reported a drop in fourth-quarter revenue and predicted another drop for the first quarter. The company's stock slid...

NEW YORK - Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:NYSE:Whirlpool Corp., down 53 cents at $86Whirlpool said that it has won a...

ATP Oil & Gas Corporation issued its annual 2009 results, a 376% reserve replacement ratio, and announced that its major deepwater Gulf of Mexico development, the Telemark Hub, is on schedule for...

Revenues for the nine months of $19.6 million is 4% lower than last year, cash flow from operations of $5.0 million (27 cents per share) is 23% lower than last year, net income and comprehensive...

Oil prices ended the week lower following mixed economic reports that kept investors on edge about the outlook for improving energy demand.On Friday benchmark crude for April delivery slid 87 cents...

March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Prudential Financial Inc., the second-biggest U.S. life insurer, said John Strangfeld’s bonus more than doubled last year, his second as chief executive officer, as the...

March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Most U.S. stocks fell, halting a global advance, and commodities retreated as a drop in American consumer confidence overshadowed an unexpected increase in retail sales. The...

March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Chile plans to tap its copper savings funds and may borrow abroad to pay for the estimated $30 billion cost of repairing damage caused by the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that...

March 12 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to lodge “strong objections” to Israel’s announcement of a Jewish...

NEW YORK — Interest rates were mixed in the bond market Friday after uneven economic reports gave investors conflicting signals. Long-term Treasury prices rebounded after sliding Thursday. The...

still-in-beta Microsoft Tag , which was also related to the company's first official Android application.I only briefly touched upon the many things that are being done with QR codes: advertisements...

One of Microsoft's major justifications for the Yahoo search deal is scale. CEO Steve Ballmer has repeatedly asserted that greater scale would allow Microsoft to improve search accuracy. Just last...

WASHINGTON - The unemployment rate last year for young Iraq and Afghanistan veterans hit 21.1 percent, the Labor Department said Friday, reflecting a tough obstacle combat veterans face as they make...

My colleagues and I conduct quite a bit of market research, both for our own company and on behalf of our clients. We've seen it used both for good and for ill. Here are a handful of thoughts that...

A relative handful of young, high-growth companies create a disproportionate share of the net new jobs in the U.S., according to a new study by...

Different measures of entrepreneurship in China and the United States in 2008. Source: Created from data from the 2009 Global Entrepreneurship...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Friday that he plans to reintroduce legislation to confront China on the issue of currency manipulation. In a brief statement, Schumer said he plans...

ABT ) Friday to sell from hold, citing profitability issues in 2010. Citi said the company's recent purchase of Solvay Pharmaceuticals is masking the problems at the drug company. Abbott's ...

Investors will get a key statement from the Federal Reserve next week that could offer a more detailed description of the economy, as well as any change in Fed policy toward buying Treasurys. ...

Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Obama administration is considering a Maryland regulator awarded "Consumer Advocate of the Year" and a Massachusetts economics professor known for...

Tech stocks managed to put in a quietly upbeat performance Friday, but enthusiasm was tempered throughout the day due to mixed broad-market feelings about some new data on consumer sentiment. Among...

(Adds additional information, in the sixth through 10th paragraphs.) WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration added a boxed warning to the anti-clotting medication Plavix,...

NEW YORK -- U.S. stock indexes on Friday tallied a second week of gains in wrapping up a session stuck nearly at neutral. "The market is almost unchanged and reflects today's good news in retail...

DOW JONES NEWSWIRES Electronic stock market operator Direct Edge on Friday secured approval from U.S. regulators to convert its platforms to full-fledged exchanges. The Jersey City, N.J.-based...

British Columbia has mandated that 90 percent of electricity generated in the province must come from clean or renewable sources by 2016. It also plans to achieve electricity self-sufficiency by...

Dennis Skulsky, the president of Canwest Global Communications Corp.’s newspaper and publishing division, resigned Friday, saying he wants to spend more time with his...

Computerworld — Microsoft confirmed today that a security update for its Excel spreadsheet had turned English text in an important Windows tool into Chinese. The admission was the second in...

C OLUMBUS, Ohio — Police in Ohio say a man accused of striking children in the head with his fist and keys at a Wal-Mart store told them he did it for the thrill. Sixty-eight-year-old Ralph...

MCLEAN, Va. - (Business Wire) Global Telecom & Technology, Inc. (“GTT”), (OTCBB: GTLT), a leading global network integrator that provides its clients with a broad portfolio of...

CHICAGO - (Business Wire) Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the...

CHICAGO - (Business Wire) Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the...

0 Comments (AP) A federal court Friday upheld regulations that require cable TV companies to make sports programming and other channels they own available on equal terms to rival TV providers such as...

Boys & Girls Clubs of America , raising issues that could jeopardize millions in federal funding for the national charity. The four senators said they were concerned that the chief executive of a...

Economy May Be Humming, But Can it Last? (AP) Retail sales posted a surprising increase in February as U.S. consumers did not let major snowstorms stop them from storming the malls. The advance, the...

Residents eager to get their state tax refunds may not have as long a wait this year as some in media are asserting. The recession has tied up cash and caused officials in some states to consider...

charity that receives millions of dollars in taxpayer aid, is under fire for paying out high salaries to executives such as CEO Roxanne Spillett at a time when the organization is closing clubs...

A row of Toyota Prius cars sits on the lot at Toyota of El Cajon, March 9, 2010, in El Cajon, Calif. (Denis Poroy/AP Photo) Rick Nosic and his wife bought a Prius in 2004, eager to save on gas. ...

A foreclosed home is shown in Stockton, California, in this file photo. The Obama administration has released its latest information on those helped by the Home Affordable Modification Program....

Sales dipped for L.L. Bean for the second consecutive year in 2009 but the outdoors clothing retailer managed to beat its own projections, the company said Friday. The company also reported that...

Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. said Friday it hired former Nora Therapeutics CEO Julie McHugh as its new chief operating officer. The company said McHugh will assume her new role on Monday....

NEW YORK: The window of opportunity is closing for boutique bond trading firms to make a killing from market turmoil as big Wall Street banks regain their footing and rehire staff. During the...