NEW YORK — Crude oil futures swung wildly on Monday, rising to a record and then tumbling as investors wrestled with whether they should put sto...
Reuters | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is boosting its European presence with plans to license 150 new locations in Br...
GreenBiz.com | Posted 06.19.2008 | Green
LONDON, UK -- While the United Kingdom has seen job losses throughout the finance and property sectors, there has been a rise in jobs related to clima...
Fortune | Devin Leonard | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business
NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Brian Tierney was pretty cocky when he and a group of investors bought the Philadelphia Inquirer and its sister, the tabloid Dai...
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 06.14.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street tumbled Friday, taking the Dow Jones industrials down nearly 400 points, on a pair of alarming economic developments: oil...
Planet Green | Michael Graham Richard | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green
There is a whole sub-culture within the personal finance world that is dedicated to frugal living (reducing your living expenses), and a lot of what w...
ChicagoBusiness.com | Emily Bryson York | Posted 06.11.2008 | Business
(Crain's) -- With sky-high commodity costs, an increase in minimum wage and consumers trading down to lower-price items, McDonald's owner/operators ar...
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 06.06.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — The economy logged slightly better _ but weak _ growth in the first quarter, spurred by improved sales of U.S. products overseas. W...
AP | JOSH FUNK | Posted 05.13.2008 | Business
OMAHA, Neb. — Billionaires Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger say the pain many financial institutions are feeling because of the credit crunch i...
New York Times | PETER S. GOODMAN and MICHAEL GRYNBAUM | Posted 05.08.2008 | Business
The American economy remained stuck in the slow lane over the first three months of the year, expanding by a modest 0.6 percent annualized rate, the C...
CBS News | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
According to a new poll by CBS News, 89% of Americans think that the Iraq War has contributed to the country's economic problems. Americans surveyed ...
New York Times | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 03.29.2008 | Business
In Seattle, sales at a long-established hardware store, Pacific Supply, are suddenly dipping. In Oklahoma City, couples planning their weddings are de...
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — The number of newly laid off workers filing for unemployment benefits rose last week to the highest level in nearly two months, pro...
Wall Street Journal | GREG IP, JAMES R. HAGERTY and JONATHAN KARP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
As the falling housing market shakes financial institutions and pummels Americans in an election year, the nation's economic woes have surged to the t...
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve slashed a key interest rate by three-quarters of a point Tuesday, capping its most aggressive two months of act...
New York | Michael Idov | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The news keeps coming, each item worse than the one before. New-home sales fall 26 percent nationwide; the U.S. economy loses 17,000 jobs in January; ...
Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Topping Congress's agenda as it returns this week is a plan to "jump-start the economy and try to shorten the slowdown that many economists say has al...
Associated Press | Ryan Nakashima | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Democrat Barack Obama on Sunday unveiled an economic stimulus package costing up to $120 billion that his campaign said would put money in the hands o...
New York Times | Edmund L. Andrews | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The Federal Reserve expects economic growth to slow sharply next year, and policy makers there are worried that even this forecast may prove too optim...
New York Times | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
If the fortunes of the Power Curbers company were tied solely to business in the United States, these would be grim days at its factory on the fringes...
Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
A majority of hedge fund managers say a U.S. recession is "very likely" in 2008, but fewer than one in five said an economic slowdown would be bad for...
AP | JOHN WILEN | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business