Asian stock markets plunged Monday as weaker-than-expected economic data from the US and China raised concerns over the strength of global economic recovery.
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.
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.
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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.
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Egyptians continued protesting into Sunday, outraged that a court spared Mubarak's life.
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.
China's official news agency on Sunday warned US against muddying the waters in the disputed zones of South China Sea, responding to Washington's statement that it would increase its military presence in the region.
Where to watch day eight's action at Roland Garros, as the fourth round gets underway, plus a look at the best of the Sunday's matches.
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.
After weeks of being stuck in Mexico because of an immigration issue, Elizabeth Olivas, a Frankfort High School honor student, first stepped off a plane at Indianapolis International Airport on Thursday and then delivered her speech as salutatorian to her graduating class on Saturday.
In the 1960s and 1970s, thousands of rebellious Europeans, Americans, and Aussies threw caution to the wind and traded their suburban upbringings for sarongs, sandals, and the allure of the East, marching along the hippie trail on a journey that would forever alter the course of history.
The ad in question, which features a photo of a Catholic priest being shot and killed, asks readers, Will Obama and the Democrats Shoot Catholics and Christians?
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Saturday that the country will shift most of its warships to the Asia-Pacific region by 2020 as part of a new military strategy.
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.
Sina Weibo, the popular Chinese social-media network and innovative microblogging service, has been running on new rules to restrict unlawful and disruptive discourse since May 28.
Charlize Theron is an actress, model, activist, and mother. Since her breakout role in the 1997 drama The Devil's Advocate Theron has taken Hollywood by storm. The face of Dior has appeared in a number of notable films, such as The Cider House Rules and The Italian Job.
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.
