The Associated Press
- 14 hours ago
By DANIEL WAGNER, AP Business Writer - 27 minutes ago Alarmed by an ominously weak US jobs report, investors ran for safety Friday from new worries about a global slowdown, sending the Dow Jones industrial average to its biggest loss since November.
Bloomberg
- 2 hours ago
Spain's campaign to cajole the European Central Bank into buying its bonds is backfiring. The nation's 10-year borrowing cost has jumped more than half a point to 6.62 percent since Jaime Garcia-Legaz, the deputy minister for trade, ...
Washington Post
- 1 hour ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday disclosed selling his stakes in dozens of companies over the past year, including investments in several overseas companies that might have undermined his increasingly tough campaign vows to ...
New York Times
- 6 hours ago
DETROIT - General Motors said Friday that it would offer lump-sum payments to thousands of white-collar retirees to reduce its pension obligations, which are the biggest in the nation, and would pay Prudential Insurance to take over its pension ...
Reuters
- 16 hours ago
By Jonathan Cable and Alex Richardson | LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Some of the world's major economies are faltering or shrinking, with Chinese factory output barely growing and powerful European manufacturing countries falling deeper into malaise, ...