Japan's Topix Index slumped to its lowest level in 28 years as investor confidence was severely hit by disappointing U.S. jobs data, the increasing euro zone debt crisis and the weakening Chinese economy.
China's non-manufacturing sector grew at a slower pace in May compared to the previous month, raising concerns about the slowdown in the country's economic growth.
Asian equity indexes are getting whacked on Monday a lot like European and U.S. stock indexes got whacked on Friday, with all of those open at this time having shed between 1 percent and 3 percent in the early going.
Tea Party members and other conservatives would like Americans to believe that the United States? problems started in 2009, but nothing could be further from the truth. Three major policy errors by President George W. Bush last decade substantially worsened the U.S.?s fiscal condition, and the nation has been trying to recover ever since.
When George Zimmerman fatally shot unarmed Florida teen Trayvon Martin in February, he wasn't immediately arrested and charged because of the state's controversial 2005 Stand Your Ground law. Due to the measure, killers and vicious attackers in some cases are walking free, a report shows.
A solemn and worried George Zimmerman turned himself over to authorities shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday.
Advisers to President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney turns assigning blame for May's grim jobs figures on Fox News Sunday, as the candidates try to spin a paltry 69,000 new jobs into a positive talking point for the incumbent and his Republican challenger.
The Battleship movie's bomb at the box office has Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and analysts worried the flop could hit his company's bottom line as a result.
George Zimmerman is back in Florida to return to custody, but his legal team plans on
Clive Chajet, celebrated brands consultant for companies, offers his free advice to Facebook, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard about undoing the damage from recent mishaps: stick to business and the share price will follow.
Warburg Pincus LLC, a private equity firm based in US, is looking for a $100-$125 million stake in finance firm Future Capital Holdings, sources said to Reuters.
Steve Jobs gave a lot of juicy quotes before he died, and Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has failed to keep some of them out of an upcoming patent trial against Google's (GOOG.O) Motorola Mobility unit, according to a court ruling.
Italian sailors, who mistook two Indian fishermen for pirates and killed them, were released on bail Saturday to await trial, a step closer to the culmination of a major diplomatic row between Rome and New Delhi.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy proposed on Saturday that the 17 countries in the euro zone create a common fiscal authority, with each surrendering a significant amount of its national sovereignty to send a signal to financial markets about the certainty of their single-currency experiment.
Mitt Romney would not offer relief for the 11.5 million U.S. homeowners with underwater mortgages if he were elected president, one of his advisers said Saturday. The assertion contrasts with Romney's own words in January: The idea that somehow this is going to cure itself by itself is probably not real.
Florida state officials will continue their quest to purge purportedly ineligible people from voter-registration rolls, a representative of Secretary of State Ken Detzner said Saturday.
The U.S. had been losing industrial jobs to low-cost countries, particularly in Asia, for years, but its manufacturing sector appears to be staging a surprising turnaround. In 2009, manufacturing accounted for about 11 percent of U.S. gross domestic product; in 2011, the comparable figure was 12.2 percent.
The recent discoveries of gas in the eastern Mediterranean creates a whole new energy paradigm for two nations -- Cyprus and Israel -- which formerly were believed to possess no natural resources at all. Their subsequent alliance has further upset the geopolitical balance in the Near East.
American military machines are endangered by phony components from China. No one has been hurt yet as a result, but solving the problem will be a herculean task.
Former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison after a judge convicted him for his involvement in the killings of protesters during the uprising that ended his 30-year rule
Asian markets declined this week due to increasing concerns about China's economic slowdown and heightened Spanish banking sector woes.
Two-plus years after the so-called Flash Crash wreaked havoc in the U.S. equity market on May 6, 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday it has OK'd two proposals designed to dampen extraordinary volatility in individual securities and the broader stock market.
U.S. car sales soared 47.6 percent for the American Honda unit of Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (NYSE: HMC) in May, as the Japanese automaker consummated its recovery from last year's triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdowns), with strong sales of its flagship Civic and Accord cars.
The North Carolina Senate could begin debating that state's first piece of legislation to allow hydraulic fracturing in oil-and-gas drilling next week.
Democrats in the U.S. Senate will renew next week their push for equal-pay legislation with the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill with an embattled history that would help close the wage gap between men and women that experts say costs each woman about $434,000 over the course of her career.
With the Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing report and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Employment Situation Summary both weaker than analysts' consensus estimates on Friday, U.S. stocks closed a holiday-shortened trading week by dropping like so many hot pennies scattered in cold snow.
The troubled Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE:CHK), the second-largest producer of natural gas in the country, announced Friday it has made a significant discovery of crude oil and natural gas in the Anadarko Basin beneath the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma.
Mazda Motor Corporation (Tokyo: 7261) struggled in May posting U.S. sales growth of just 5.4 percent on a daily selling rate adjusted basis, however, the company's sales for the year to date remain strong compared to last year, up an adjusted 19.3 percent.
The Army has dropped a murder charge against Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who is accused of gunning down civilians in Afghanistan in March.
Zimmerman, who is facing second-degree murder charges in the death of Trayvon Martin, had his bail revoked after prosecutors accused him of conspiring with his wife to lie about $200,000 they collected from a website toward his legal defense.
