Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney says that the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling was a correct decision.
Calgary-based Central GoldTrust, a closed-end trust that holds gold bullion for investors, said Friday it sold 2.65 million units for $180 million.
First and foremost, remember to set your clocks back one hour before you go to sleep on Saturday Night. Daylight saving time for 2011 officially ends in the U.S at 2.am on Sunday.
Idaho became on Thursday the first U.S. state to require two online courses for high school graduation when state officials approved the requirement.
Shares of daily deals site Groupon Inc rose more than 50 percent in their stock market debut on Friday, but at least some of the early trading exuberance may have come from the small amount of shares offered.
The Supreme Court of Canada blocked on Thursday the extradition to the United States of Abdullah Khadr, a Canadian wanted by Washington on terrorist charges
Hong Kong's wine imports have remained strong even as global economic uncertainty cuts demand for luxury goods, underscoring the city's credentials as a preeminent wine hub buoyed by strong demand from mainland Chinese buyers.
China on Friday dismissed a U.S. report on online spying as irresponsible, rejecting the charge that China uses cyber espionage to steal lucrative U.S. trade and technology secrets.
Are you still pondering about the much awaited cataclysmic 2011 dates - Oct 21 and Oct 28, a prediction that passed by quite uneventfully? It could still be worthwhile to muscle up courage and brace up for the next two dark dates of 11/11/11 or Dec. 21, 2012.
The number of Americans living in poverty has reached an all-time high of 46.2 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
U.S. stocks fell in morning trading on Friday after two days of steep gains as richer nations appeared to back away from a European Union plan to broaden funding for a euro zone bailout fund.
An analysis of the recent developments in the Republican primary race.
Italy will allow the IMF to monitor its progress with long overdue reforms of pensions, labor markets and privatizations, European leaders announced on Friday, looking beyond the crisis in Greece to the far graver threat to the euro zone.
The U.S. economy added a modest 80,000 jobs in October -- below what economists expected -- but job gains for the prior two months were revised higher: September to 158,000 from the initially-released 103,000; and August to 104,000 from 57,000. And the latter suggests a job market that continues to heal.
White House officials bristled on Thursday at the suggestion U.S. power within the G20 had been diminished by budget woes back home, as Europe looked toward an economically self-confident China for help.
A group of Medicare patients and their families sued the Obama administration on Thursday, saying they were deprived of coverage by the government health plan because of a policy that allows hospitals to avoid admitting elderly people with chronic ailments as inpatients.
Americans in the past year got access to 24 new medicines before they became available anywhere else, U.S. drug regulators said.
Higher gold prices and increased sales lifted New Gold Inc.'s adjusted third-quarter earnings nearly 70 percent, the Vancouver-based company said Friday.
Stocks were set to drop at the open on Friday, and a mixed report on the U.S. labor market could make trading volatile.
Research in Motion (RIM) launched BBM Music this week, a music-sharing app a spokesman for the company has said evolves the mixtape. Seeking to capitalize upon - and perhaps revive - its BlackBerry Messenger network of 45 million users, RIM's newest app allows users to choose 50 songs from an extensive cloud-based library of content licensed from music giants Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI, as well as from smaller independent labels.
Stocks were set to drop at the open on Friday, and a mixed report on the U.S. labor market could make trading volatile.
Jon Corzine has resigned as MF Global Holdings Ltd's chairman and chief executive officer four days after the futures brokerage filed for bankruptcy protection, culminating a rapid downfall for one of Wall Street's best-known executives.
