Job prospects have improved dramatically in emerging markets like China compared with three months ago, but the fourth-quarter hiring outlook dipped slightly in the United States and Germany
U.S.-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, which agreed to be bought by Canada's Biovail Corp in June, said they would cut about 25 percent of the combined company's U.S. and Canadian workforce as part of the integration plans.
Network Communications Inc, the company behind U.S.-based real estate-related publications such as The Real Estate Book, said on Friday it signed its fourth extension on a standstill agreement with lenders as it continues talks on restructuring debt ahead of a November expiration.
The percentage of U.S. home sellers who cut their asking price fell in August, the first time in five months, with price reductions holding steady from the month before, real estate website Zillow.com said.
A further downturn in the battered U.S. housing market has put the Obama administration in a tough spot with few tools to stem foreclosures ahead of congressional elections in which Democrats face big losses.
The U.S. government is likely to take a loss on General Motors Co in the first offering of the automaker's stock, six people familiar with preparations for the landmark IPO said.
Israeli start-up firm Tawkon has developed software to measure mobile telephone handset radiation aimed at helping users reduce exposure to emissions without giving up their phones.
A rebound in the cross-border mergers and acquisitions market would be the major driver of the world economic growth in foreign direct investment (FDI), said UNCTAD's survey.
Smokers developing lung cancer may get a cure in the common diabetes drug metformin, Reuter reports according to National Cancer Institute research findings on Wednesday. Metformin prevented lung tumor growth in mice exposed to a cancer-causing agent found in tobacco.
The less you sleep the more pounds you gain. Wondering from where the extra calories come from?
Medical malpractice liability costs the U.S. healthcare system more than $55 billion a year, most of it in defensive medical practices such as extra tests and scans, according to a report released on Tuesday.
The hallucinogen psilocybin -- known by the street name magic mushrooms -- may help ease the anxiety that often accompanies late-stage cancer, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
BP Plc removed a failed blowout preventer from atop its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well on Friday afternoon, a company spokesman said.
U.S. employment fell for a third straight month in August, but the drop was far less than expected and private hiring was a positive surprise, relieving concerns about a stalling economic recovery.
Stocks jumped and commodities rallied on Friday after data showed U.S. job losses were less than expected in August, the second major report this week to ease fears the American economy may slip back into recession.
Wall Street closed a stellar week on Friday after recent economic data, including a stronger-than-expected labor market report, bolstered optimism that the economy would not fall back into recession.
President Barack Obama will outline new measures next week to boost the U.S. economy after August data on Friday showed again that jobs -- the central issue in November elections -- were being created too slowly.
With little fanfare, equity markets have started to rally, investors have become sated with government bonds and cash levels are high enough to prompt a search for better yield.
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, wearing his green military cap and clothing like the comandante of old, made his first speech before the Cuban public on Friday since falling ill in 2006, warning of the threat of nuclear war.
Britain's leading share index hit a near four-month closing high on Friday after a better-than-expected U.S. jobs report eased concerns of the world's largest economy slipping back to another recession.
Wall Street was set to close its best week in six on Friday after economic data, including a stronger-than-expected labor market report, helped soothe fears the economy could fall back into recession.
European shares hit a three-week closing high on Friday and posted their biggest weekly gain in about 8 weeks as investors grabbed equities after figures showed that U.S. employment declined far less than expected in August.
