A brewing crisis in the Middle East is causing an almost daily uptick in oil prices but early signs of a rebound in the U.S. economy is indeed offering substantial tailwind to crude too.
U.S. Army Cpl. Jesse Thorsen took the stage at Ron Paul's caucus night rally in Iowa on Tuesday with a few things on his mind. By the time he finished speaking, the 28-year-old would come to embody a breed of supporter seemingly unique to the Ron Paul universe: The War-Weary Veteran.
Gold prices rose Friday as concerns about the Eurozone's economy and the health of its banks offset the effect of a stronger dollar.
Stocks firmed on Friday on hopes that U.S. jobs data due later in the day will show a stronger outlook for the world's biggest economy, but the euro hit a 16-month low on worries over the region's economic health and further debt sales due next week.
Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp recorded a worse-than-expected yearly profit decline in the fourth quarter, and the first decline in two years, as its models scrambled to compete with Apple Inc's iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy range.
The Eurozone's economy deepened its downturn at the end of 2011 as retail sales fell and sentiment soured, but the first improvement in the business climate in 10 months offered hope that an expected recession may be mild.
Samsung Galaxy Note is expected to reach the U.S. early this year with AT&T reportedly lining up to carry a version of the smartphone.
It's good news, said Jemal on ABC News, But there's more room for improvement, more room to accelerate progress in reducing cancer death rates.
A monthly gauge of online labor demand in the United States fell in December, but was still up 8.0 percent from a year ago, a private research group said on Friday.
LG Electronics Inc said on Friday it would unveil its first Google TV next week, joining Sony Corp and Samsung Electronics Co in partnering with the search giant to get a foothold in the emerging Internet TV market.
Girl Scout Cookie launches its new flavor of the season “Savannah Smiles. The lemon-flavored Savannah Smile will mark the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouts and will join the classics such as Thin Mints, Samoas and Do-Si-Dosa.
BMW AG has sealed its position as the most successful luxury brand in the U.S. in 2011 by outselling Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz last month.
Recently, a thumb-drive with an audio file on it arrived in my mail. When I plugged into the laptop, which is an Apple, so I don't have to worry too much about viruses, I heard this recorded call between President Barack Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney talking about the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and the Keystone XL pipeline.
MF Global's bankruptcy trustee, Louis Freeh, has refused to turn over some documents to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission , which is investigating what happened to an estimated $1.2 billion in missing customer funds, the Wall Street Journal said.
U.S. employment likely grew solidly last month, but the jobless rate probably rose from a 2-1/2 year low as improving conditions lured some Americans who had given up looking for work back into the labor market.
The price of pork in China could soon rival U.S. payrolls as the world's most watched economic indicator.
The ousted British CEO of Olympus Corp abandoned his three-month battle to replace the management of the scandal-tainted maker of medical devices, blaming big Japanese shareholders for not backing his campaign to take back the helm.
A New York federal judge on Thursday damped hopes that he would throw out government wire tap evidence in the insider trading trial of Rajat Gupta, a former board member of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble .
A New York federal judge on Thursday damped hopes that he would throw out government wire tap evidence in the insider trading trial of Rajat Gupta, a former board member of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble .
LOS ANGELES, JAN 5 - Rapper Kanye West had the Twitterverse buzzing on Thursday after posting a series of more than 80 tweets in a train of thoughts that left many fans and critics scratching their heads.
Family Dollar Stores Inc's quarterly sales rose less than expected, and its shares fell 3 percent in after-hours trading on Thursday even though its profit was in line with forecasts.
Samsung Electronics, the world's top maker of memory chips and smartphones, estimated on Friday its October-December profit would jump 73 percent to a life-time high, aided by one-off gains and record-smashing sales of smartphones.
