It's the time of year when new college students start buying notebooks, but after paying the year's tuition bills, notebooks could suddenly become unaffordable.
Army officer Donna Bachler has not had a regular paycheck since she left active duty four years ago, even though she boasts the kind of skills employers vie for.
World stocks sank for an eighth straight session of losses on Friday, with investors racked by worries about the slowing global economy and the dangerous spread of euro zone debt anguish into Italy and Spain.
A scary drop in stocks and commodities threatens to squeeze life out of an already faltering U.S. economy, with deal-making, investment in plants and equipment, and capital raising at risk of slowing down or freezing up.
The latest U.S. oil inventory data contradicts a widely held notion among oil traders that a huge glut of Canadian and U.S. shale crude oil is accumulating in the middle of the United States and causing the record gap in global oil benchmark prices.
Oil tumbled as much as 6 percent on Thursday, with U.S. crude crashing through technical support to its lowest since February as mounting fears of a stalled economy set off a global race from riskier assets.
Gold edged up more than half a percent on Friday as investors used bullion to shelter from the storm engulfing financial markets on concerns that the United States may be facing another recession and Europe's debt crisis is spreading to some of its largest economies.
Boeing Co (BA.N) announced plans to launch its seven-seat spaceship on a test run to the International Space Station in 2015 using Atlas 5 rockets built by its United Launch Alliance venture.
After the terrible rout in markets on Thursday investors spoke of holding fast and even poking around for buying opportunities, but that's hard when the market is likely facing another weak U.S. jobs report on Friday.
Investors fled U.S. stocks and dumped commodities on Thursday, rushing to the safety of government bonds on growing fears the global economy was weakening.
While refinancing is on the rise, many consumers are failing to see benefits from it, the MFAA has claimed.
Executives at a concrete testing company were arraigned on Thursday on charges of falsifying thousands of reports on public and private projects, including the new Yankee Stadium and an air-traffic control tower at LaGuardia Airport.
Cleetus Friedman is convinced consumers will continue to pay a premium for healthier, locally sourced food, despite the sluggish economy that has many watching their wallets.
Wholesale gasoline discounts in Los Angeles were unchanged on Wednesday but the outright price fell due to a drop in in the NYMEX benchmark, traders said.
Digital textbook company Inkling announced Wednesday that is has scored $17 million in second-round funding from Tenaya Capital to compete with major competitors entering the space.
Fluor Corp (FLR.N), the largest publicly traded U.S. engineering company, posted unexpected second-quarter profit growth and said its backlog of work surged to a new record, lifting its stock by 7 percent.
Transocean Ltd (RIGN.VX) (RIG.N), the world's largest offshore drilling contractor, raised its 2011 tax rate guidance for the second time due to a shift in the regional mix of its working rigs.
Los Angeles' restless and ever-changing food scene is hard to define, but it has forced U.S. diners to rethink their concept of what a restaurant is.
We've talked about the rise of New York as a tech hot spot, but the challenge of attracting good engineering and technical talent remains one of the region's biggest hurdles. Now Next Jump, a New York-based rewards and offers provider, is teaming with the New York Stock Exchange to host a major engineering-only recruiting event on the floor of the NYSE.
Automobile production in Brazil rose 3.9 percent BRAOPM=ECI and sales increased 0.6 percent BRASLM=ECI in July from June, the national automakers' association said on Thursday.
Nokia Siemens Networks will cut as many as 1,500 jobs from assets acquired from Motorola, a spokesman announced on Thursday.
Hedge fund titan John Paulson's flagship funds performed poorly in July and sank further into the red for the year.
Chrysler is recalling nearly 300,000 minivans.
Defense may ask to relocate the trial to another jurisdiction
Apple has created thriving businesses with its Mac computers and the recent stable of gadgets like the iPhone and iPad, but one analysts predicts the company may merge these worlds atop a new Apple processor.
Kraft Foods Inc Chief Executive Irene Rosenfeld is breaking up the food giant, just 18 months after driving through the controversial acquisition of UK chocolate maker Cadbury.
Southwest Airlines said Thursday it will freeze or reduce capacity in 2012 due to rising fuel costs, which likely means U.S. airline passengers will pay more for tickets.
In a surprising move on Thursday, Kraft Foods decided to split its company into two different sections: one focusing on candy and one focusing on grocery foods. IBTimes takes a look at where Kraft's most famous brands will be headed.
Faye Dunaway has moved from her Manhattan apartment after reports emerged that she was being evicted from the rent-stabilized residence, citing poor conditions and lack of time spent there.
People have heard about products that are made in China and shipped to other countries but this time the Chinese chopsticks are produced in America and shipped to China.
