Hao Li

AMR Corporation (NYSE:AMR), the parent company of American Airlines and AMR Eagle, has voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in order to improve competitiveness.

Authors of a new scientific study speculated that a laptop connected wirelessly to the Internet on the lap near the testes may result in decreased male fertility.

Having an abusive boss is bad enough for one’s work life. A new study from Baylor University suggested that it could also negatively affect one’s marriage.

Sustainable economic growth is one of the key questions facing economists today, especially when it comes to developing countries.

At Tuesday night’s Republican presidential debate, Ron Paul stuck to his position of opposing marijuana criminalization and the “War on Drugs” campaign.

The UC Davis pepper spray incident has sparked national outrage and resulted in consequences for the university police officers and administrators responsible.

Since 1980, the wage gap in America has widened in a phenomenon known as “job polarization,” stated economists Jaison R. Abel and Richard Deitz of the New York Federal Reserve in a blog posting.

First Lady Michelle Obama was booed at a NASCAR event on Sunday.

The UC Davis pepper spray video is so controversial that even the woman who ordered the police to forcibly remove the protesting students, as seen in the video, called it “chilling.”

Lt. John Pike of UC Davis pepper sprayed peaceful student protesters who were sitting on the ground on Friday.

A harrowing video of UC Davis students being pepper sprayed has gone viral.

Before 2010, most people in developed countries did not know what a sovereign debt crisis was because they never experienced it firsthand. After Greece was brought to its knees by this phenomenon, the phrase “sovereign debt crisis” was on the lips of virtually all Europeans.

The European Central Bank has secretly imposed a weekly limit of about 20 billion euros ($27 billion) on its euro zone sovereign bond-buying program, according to a report in Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published on Friday.

Italian and Spanish government debt yields fell on Friday, as the European Central Bank bought bonds in the secondary market, but held close to unsustainable levels as contagion fears and money market stress raised the pressure for policymaker action.

Pawnbroker Albemarle & Bond said it had traded well in the four months to end-October as hard-up Britons pawned and sold gold jewellery for cash.

Yamana Gold said it has started production at its Mercedes mine in Mexico and it expects to start commercial production in the second quarter of 2012.

Gold inched up on Friday helped by a weaker dollar and some bargain-hunting but was still on track for its largest weekly loss since September as euro zone debt contagion worries spooked investors.

Forget changing interest rates. China’s main weapon of choice to influence liquidity is changing its reserve requirement ratios. This tool dictates the percentage of commercial bank deposits that must be kept in the central bank.

The U.S. involvement in the Middle East has spiked since the 9/11 attacks. However, there are two big arguments for scaling it back.

The Eurozone crisis in 2011 was first about Greece. Then, while Greece was still working to secure its new bailout package, Italy came into focus as its 10-year bond yields soared to 7.5 percent last week.

The recent revelations about Jerry Sandusky, the former PSU assistant coach charged with 40 counts of sexually abusing children, have cast a recently unearthed NBC interview in a horrific new light. Watch the 1987 interview here, as Sandusky reflects on his work for The Second Mile, and reactions to the news. I enjoy being around children, Sandusky told reporters.

How the market works has changed from a few decades ago. In today’s hyper-financialized and interconnected world, investors cannot afford to solely focus on fundamentals.

The economic outlook of several Latin America and Caribbean economies has been hurt by the protracted U.S. economic recovery.

“Beliebers” do not exist just in Canada and the U.S.; they seem to span the entire globe (and dominate Twitter, too).

The Russia World Trade Organization (WTO) accession took a big step forward on Thursday. The WTO Working Party on Russia’s accession approved the package detailing Russia’s entry into the international organization.

The UK economic outlook for 2012 does not look bright.

Malaysia wants economic growth. It wants to catapult itself from a middle-income country to a high-income country.

Theoretically speaking, a sensible Ukraine land reform could set off an agricultural boom in a country commonly known as the “breadbasket of Europe.”

Economists Siddhartha Sanyal and Rahul Bajoria of Barclays Capital forecast India’s economic growth will be 7-8 percent per year during the next three to five years.