German factory orders surged in February, mainly boosted by strong domestic demand.
Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz is undertaking a global recall of some of its older-model M-Class sport utility vehicles for issues related to cruise control that may lead to a crash, Daimler and U.S. federal safety regulators said on Tuesday.
A European Space Agency satellite has measured record low levels of ozone over the Arctic, creating a situation similar to the ozone hole over the Antarctic.
The forex market is dominated by financial/speculative transactions rather than commercial transactions. Of financial transactions, it’s dominated by trades in currencies themselves rather than portfolio flows.
Seems you can't keep a safe haven down. Not when retained wealth worldwide needs to escape money-printing and zero rates at home. What options are left to anxious savers? What choice but the Euro is still open to the Swiss National Bank...?
FOMC Meeting Minutes March 2011
German business software company Software AG will pursue more acquisitions and is seek to expand its cooperation with market leader SAP AG , its chief executive said on Tuesday.
A new pro-government Iranian blogging competition called The Face of '89, in reference to the Persian calendar year 1389, just ended on March 20.
The iPhone Dev Team has released the updated edition of both PwnageTool and redsn0w to bring an untethered jailbreak for Apple's latest firmware, FW 4.3.1.
When completed, this will be the largest, most precise and highest astronomical facility in the world and is expected to provide answers to some of the most fundamental questions of cosmology.
European authorities and the International Monetary Fund believe Ireland and Greece can sustain their debts while it is up to Portugal whether it joins them in seeking help, the head of Europe's rescue fund said. Fears Ireland will not be able to shoulder the burden of one of the world's most costliest bank bailouts have overshadowed the government's pledge to recapitalize its financial system ...
A University of Cambridge scholar has released a happiness map of countries, based on a study of tweets made by citizens on the popular social media platform Twitter; Germany emerges at the top of the table.
Prominent U.S. lawmakers tore into the plan of the administration to withdraw from air attacks in Libya, saying the decision was “odd”, “troubling” and “unnerving”, according to reports.
United Auto Workers membership rose for the first time in six years in 2010, helped by a recovering U.S. auto industry and expanding to include workers outside that industry, the UAW said in a federal filing on Thursday.
The US corporate tax rate is supposed to be 35 percent. However, due to various rules and exemptions, the actual tax rate is much lower.
The FDA found small amounts of radiation in a sample batch of milk from Spokane, Washington. The level, however, was 5,000 times lower than the Derived Intervention Level set by the FDA.
Brent was steady near $115 on Wednesday, after falling as much as 0.6 percent on indications that higher fuel prices were weighing on consumer confidence in top user the United States, where crude inventories rose more than expected last week.
The U.S. faces Paraguay in Nashville
The U.S. faces Paraguay in Nashville, Tennessee tonight in a friendly match.
Nokia
on Tuesday filed another complaint with the U.S. trade panel alleging that rival Apple infringes its patents in iPhones, iPads and other products.The Apple iPad 2 has flown off the shelves in as many as 25 countries where it was launched over the weekend, but this time Apple is facing uneasy questions from disappointed customers about the real reasons behind the sudden sell-out.
U.S. stocks gave up modest gains to turn lower in the final minutes of Monday's trading session, as financials and materials sectors joined consumer and tech stocks in the red.
