By Masayuki Kitano. SINGAPORE | Wed May 22, 2013 10:00pm EDT. SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Japanese government bond prices dived and 10-year JGB futures tumbled a full point, prompting the Tokyo Stock Exchange to temporarily suspend trade as the ...

By Aileen Wang and Koh Gui Qing. BEIJING | Wed May 22, 2013 10:51pm EDT. BEIJING (Reuters) - China's factory activity shrank for the first time in seven months in May as new orders fell, a preliminary survey of purchasing managers showed, adding to ...

Slightly more travelers are expected to drive to their getaway destinations this Memorial Day holiday weekend, AAA reports. While 31.2 million people will drive during the holiday, up 0.25% from last year, only 2.3 million will take leisure flights, down 7%.

WASHINGTON - US lawmakers agreed to a bill that would speed construction of a Canada-US oil pipeline and circumvent the need for President Barack Obama's approval for the $5 billion project.

DHAKA, Bangladesh - A factory building that collapsed last month outside Dhaka, killing more than 1,000 workers in the deadliest disaster in the history of the garment industry, was constructed with substandard materials and in blatant disregard for building ...

Wed May 22, 2013 11:22am EDT. May 22 (Reuters) - The following is a list of scheduled U.S. agency bill sales from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for 2013.

SAN FRANCISCO - Meg Whitman said it would take five years to turn around Hewlett-Packard. On Wednesday, when the computing giant announced quarterly results that exceeded analysts' estimates, she stuck by her plan.

Sales of previously owned U.S. homes climbed in April to the highest level in more than three years even as the market remained constrained by a lack of inventory and strict borrowing rules.

It pays to be in TV. On the list of 10-best paid CEOs of 2012 - the exclusive club inside an already-exclusive club - half are in the entertainment and media industry, according to executive pay research firm Equilar.

The decades-old tradition of shutting down U.S. auto factories for two weeks around July may be coming to an end, experts say, pushed out by strong demand and staggered vehicle launch dates.