Economy

On trial and split apart, Vietnamese clan defiant
The broken bricks and roof tiles of Doan Van Vuon's house, bulldozed by Vietnamese authorities trying to evict him, lie next to his relatives' new ...
Oil steady after US manufacturing growth slows
The price of oil was steady Tuesday after data showed U.S. manufacturing growth slowed in March. Benchmark oil for May delivery was up 3 cents to $97.
Cyprus appoints judges to probe economic crash
Cyprus' president has appointed a panel of three former supreme court judges to investigate how the country ended up nearly bankrupt. President Nicos ...
Laiki's UK arm to escape Cyprus deposit charge
The Bank of England's new financial watchdog says savers, big and small, in the British arm of the Cypriot bank Laiki will not have to pay a levy on ...
Spanish unemployment edged down in March
Spanish government figures show that the number of people registered as unemployed edged down by a little under 5,000 in March, the first reduction ...
CMS softens Medicare Advantage funding changes
Medicare Advantage customers may not see the drastic benefit cuts or premium hikes next year that insurers have been warning about after all.
Stocks dip after manufacturing growth slows
The stock market got off to a slow start in April, edging lower after the Standard and Poor's 500 index eclipsed its all-time high last week. The main ...
GM new V-8 pickup trucks to get 23 mpg on highway
Chevrolet is upping the ante in the tug-of-war with Ford over America's favorite vehicles: pickup trucks. General Motors said Monday that its new ...
Card maker American Greetings agrees to go private
American Greetings has agreed to be taken private by a group led by some of its top executives in a deal that values the company at about $580 million
Is home where the profit is?
J.C. Penney is honing in on its home department as part of a bigger plan to turn its stores into mini-malls of sorts. The struggling department-store ...
Feds probe Hyundai Sonatas for suspension rust
U.S. safety regulators are investigating complaints that the rear suspension frames can rust and fail on Hyundai Sonata midsize cars. The probe ...
Qatar delays airport opening after safety review
The chief overseer of Qatar's new international airport on Monday said the opening of the facility has been delayed because of the need to address new ...
Survey: US manufacturing grew more slowly in March
A survey shows U.S. manufacturing activity expanded more slowly in March than February, held back by weaker growth in production and new orders.
US construction up 1.2 percent in February
Spending on U.S. construction projects rebounded in February, helped by a surge in home construction, which rose to the highest level in more than ...
US futures edge up after long Easter weekend
U.S. stock futures are edging higher ahead of reports on manufacturing in March and construction spending in February. After a three-day Easter ...
China's manufacturing growth improves in March
Growth in China's manufacturing picked up in March in a potentially positive sign for the recovery in the world's second-largest economy. The China ...
Japan survey finds business sentiment improving
Japanese manufacturers are more upbeat about business conditions than they were late last year, but less so than expected, a central bank survey found
Business, labor get deal on worker program
Big business and labor have struck a deal on a new low-skilled worker program, removing the biggest hurdle to completion of sweeping immigration ...
AP opens full news bureau in Myanmar
The Associated Press on Saturday became the first international news agency to open a bureau in Myanmar since a reformist government took power two ...
Italy president seeks counsel to end gridlock
Italy's president on Saturday named 10 outside experts — including a central banker, a constitutional expert, and the head of Italy's statistics ...
Algeria's southern unemployed demand oil jobs
Protests by the unemployed in southern Algeria are raising the specter of rising unrest in the country's sensitive oil regions, and are increasingly ...
Wyo. power plant stalls 17 years, faces skepticism
In Wyoming, folks call it the "No Elk" plant, an $800 million project that — once finished — was meant to supply coal-fired power to 100,000 homes and ...
Natural gas from new Israeli fields begins flowing
Natural gas has started flowing from one of Israel's sizable gas fields. Israel's Energy Ministry says gas from the offshore Tamar field began flowing ...
Little Cyprus thumbs its nose at EU 'bullies'
The moment word broke that Cypriot lawmakers in Parliament had voted down a bailout deal that would have raided everyone's savings to prop up a ...