OPINION

The relation between eating and life satisfaction depends on world region, according to a new survey.

Researchers are attempting to discover the chemical processes that allow people to experience emotions, including what people describe as love.

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The current brutal conditions in markets from mortgages to corporate loans should be giving banks good reason to think long and hard about their loans to hedge funds.

France's Industry Minister on Tuesday expressed enormous caution over any future tie-up between carmakers Renault and General Motors.

Wireless companies hoping to emulate the success of online teen hangout Web sites like MySpace.com on cellphones are finding it hard to entice teenagers away from their computers.

The Fourth of July fireworks show will come a few days early on Wall Street - but like a damp bottle-rocket, it may soon fizzle out.

When it comes to business networking, you never know who people know. One of the important keys to being successful at building a powerful personal network is diversity.

Foreign investors are likely to return to Japanese stocks as companies begin to lift their earnings forecasts this summer, and could help boost the TOPIX index as much as 18 percent by the end of this year, Morgan Stanley's Japan equity strategist said on Wednesday.

In a rush to build shops, offices and houses worthy of a thriving economy, a new elite is emerging in India - young men asked to turn plots of family land into a property business.

Investors in Asia's biggest property market, Japan, will need to be more selective and work harder on refurbishing buildings to make good returns as the cost of borrowing increases, fund managers say.

Fed watchers are set to take over on Wall Street next week as a Federal Open Market Committee meeting could give stock investors more clues on the outlook for interest rates.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.'s blockbuster $21 billion move on Friday to buy two sizeable U.S. oil and gas companies signals that a rush is on to grab energy assets, even with their lofty price tags.

The world's second-largest food company, Kraft Foods Inc., said on Wednesday that large acquisitions would be difficult to make ahead of its full spin-off from majority owner Altria Group Inc.

It's business as usual in New York's banks and brokerages where a muted response to the World Cup has allowed companies to turn a blind eye to staff watching soccer matches at their desks or on trading floors.

It was a mixed week as another rate hike became certain

We now live in a fully global society where it is imperative to have an awareness of cultural differences as they relate to networking etiquette. We often notice differences within our own states. Certainly between regions of the nation; but what about businesses that are networking with businesses in other parts of the world? We actually cross cultures with every person we meet.

The month-long slide in global stocks has wiped out at least $2 trillion in wealth, leaving investors few alternatives to preserve their holdings aside from bonds and money markets.

The market has been nothing to shout about recently. But investors holding Life Insurance stocks may not have noticed. As of Friday’s close, stocks in that industry were up 52 percent on average, over the past six months. What’s more, I counted at 11 other industries showing at least 15 percent returns over the same period.

It was the worst week since April 2005, thanks again to fears of inflation and the Fed.

Small cars were banned from Beijing's main roads less than a decade ago, as China's rulers worried that cheap, spluttering vehicles would clog lanes they hoped to fill with sleek modern autos.

Dusty Dezhou was relegated to the footnotes of Chinese history for centuries, known mainly as the place where a Filipino king died.

U.S. telephone giant AT&T Inc. risks losing customers to cable rivals unless it builds a fiber network closer to customers than currently planned for its video and Internet services, analysts said.

Consumer sales of diamond jewelry so far this year are stronger than in 2005, but the cutting and manufacturing sector is sluggish partly due to a De Beers price hike on rough diamonds in February, officials of the diamond giant said on Tuesday.

European generic drug firms hope to lead the world in developing cheap copies of biotech medicines, but industry experts see hurdles ahead and warn that carving out a major market will not happen overnight.

These are good times for diversified U.S. manufacturers. So why aren't they doing more big mergers and acquisitions?

The drop in oil and metal prices this week has raised fears that a speculative bubble in commodities is bursting, but giant U.S. fund manager PIMCO says fundamentals will hold up the asset class.

Billionaire investors Warren Buffett and Carl Icahn may differ in investment strategies but they both own sizable stakes in Tyco International Ltd., an analysis of recent investment documents shows.

Qatar's oil minister, Abdullah al-Attiyah said on Monday that oil prices are no more influenced by the market's supply and demand than the political tensions.