Wednesday, Sept. 19, is the 10th anniversary of International Talk Like Pirate Day, aaargh.
While the financial markets have improved substantially, the labor market has proven to be lackluster.
Ben & Jerry's new Limited Batch flavor is Cannoli ice cream. It's mascarpone based with fudge and is with covered cannoli pieces, in addition to a mascarpone swirl.
In the statement released with the initiation of the new program, it was obvious the Fed hoped to stimulate the economy while lowering unemployment and boosting the housing market.
Claire Danes says YouTube helped her prepare for her bipolar role on “Homeland,” but some people with the disorder are not pleased.
Here is video of USC head coach Lane Kiffin abruptly ending his Wednesday press conference.
For the first time ever, there are now more millionaires in Asia than in North America.
Gold prices traded flat Wednesday and against news suggesting a rally was in the offing, after reaching six-month highs earlier in the day.
BP Plc is in talks with Marathon Petroleum Corp. to sell its Texas City refinery to pay for Deepwater Horizon spill costs.
The Palestinian Authority's budget is short some $400 million, a gap that will remain and cause serious fiscal difficulties, even if all donors fulfill their 2012 pledges to Palestine, the World Bank warned on Wednesday.
The Washington-based International Monetary Fund has had enough of Argentina's attempts to reduce its inflation-indexed debt payments by using sketchy stats.
The Bank of Japan unexpectedly boosted its asset-buying program by ¥10 trillion ($126.7 billion), following similar easing steps by the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank.
Sales of previously owned homes rose 7.8 percent in August to the highest level since May 2010, and construction starts also increased.
Twenty years ago Poland was a poor country just out of Communism. Today it's snatching outsourcing jobs away from India. How did they do it?
All kinds of markets have been up following the announcement last Thursday of further monetary stimulus from the U.S. central bank. But the one thing that has gone up the most, according to futures markets where people put money on such things, are the chances Barack Obama will win the U.S. presidential election in November.
There are fears over the economic impact of the dispute between China and Japan if the row over islands in the East China Sea is not resolved soon.
American Airlines may fire people.
The Congress leaders claimed that the party and government had made several attempts to contact Banerjee but she had not responded to the messages so far. “We have tried to speak to her. The Prime Minister tried to speak. We left a message, but we have not heard anything,” Finance Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters in Delhi.
European markets rose Wednesday as investor confidence was lifted after the Bank of Japan announced stimulus measures to revive economic growth momentum.
The top after-market Nasdaq gainers Tuesday were Cynosure Inc, NPS Pharmaceuticals Inc, Biosante Pharmaceuticals Inc, Infinera Corporation and Ctrip.com International Ltd. The top after-market Nasdaq losers were Silver Standard Resources Inc, Endo Health Solutions Inc, Flamel Technologies S.A., OraSure Technologies Inc and Corinthian Colleges Inc.
Chicago's teachers voted late Tuesday afternoon to return to the classroom after more than a week on the picket lines.
Now 50 years old, Kampgrounds of America pioneered the U.S. campground industry to take advantage of vacationers riding the then-new interstate highways.
The UAE is making it more difficult for immigrant laborers to enter the country on tourist and other short-term visas in a bid to prevent foreign criminals from entering the country under the guise of looking for work. The rapidly developing country has been built up with immigrant labor mostly from South Asia, who form a majority of the Gulf nation's 8 million plus population.
Samsung?s Galaxy Note 2, the successor to its widely popular ?phablet? device, is rumored for an October release date in the United States. It seems as if the tablet/smartphone successor will be made available on more carriers than its predecessor, as recent alleged leaks have indicated a Galaxy Note 2 release for Verizon.
