European stock markets have been tumbling all week over fears of the damage a Greek exit from the euro zone could do to the single currency and even the European Union. Yet through it all, Germany's borrowing costs keep going down—so much ...
U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) has set a vote on extending the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts "before we leave for August," the first time House Republicans have set a clear timetable for beginning action on the tax cuts that ...
The electronic markets keep getting their wires crossed—and investors are tired of getting shocked. Two years ago, in the "flash crash" of May 6, 2010, U.S. stocks lost $1 trillion in roughly 20 minutes. Two months ago, BATS Global Markets, ...
Humans are quickly becoming an indoor species. In part, this is a byproduct of urbanization, as most people now live in big cities. Our increasing reliance on technology is also driving the trend, with a recent study concluding that American ...
NEW DELHI – India has signed an agreement with Switzerland's Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. to buy 75 turboprop trainers for more than 500 million Swiss francs ($520 million), a significant step in the South Asian country's efforts to better train ...
BEIJING (Caixin Online) — As He Jin prepared herself for the process of dying, she did it alone. Diagnosed with the final stages of liver cancer, the 24-year-old woman from Angkang of Shaanxi Province died in April this year, receiving ...
Swedish mobile payments start-up iZettle promises to deliver a version of its solution to Google Android operating system this year. "We are working with an Android version of iZettle and it will be released later this year ," said iZettle's ...
TOKYO—Sumitomo Chemical Corp. and Saudi Arabian Oil Co. have decided to proceed with the second phase of their petrochemical project on the Red Sea coast, with an estimated investment of $7 billion.
LOS ANGELES—The battle for shrinking school-budget resources has a new front: the nurse's office. School nurses, a fixture in many American schools for more than a century, are being cut from Philadelphia to San Diego, as public schools ...
Major European stock indexes gained Thursday, boosted by a rebound in beaten-down bank and energy shares, but the Greek market tumbled 4.5% on continued worries about the country's possible exit from the euro zone.
Wedbush Securities In this note, we offer the implications of the latest trends in consumer media usage and spending from our proprietary surveys.
In justifying his attacks on Bain Capital, President Obama argues that "profit maximization" might be an appropriate goal for a private-equity firm, but not for more general public policy. This argument ignores one of the most basic ...
MUMBAI – Bharti Airtel Ltd. said Thursday it will buy a 49% stake in the Indian broadband business of Qualcomm Inc. for about $165 million in a deal that will enable the company to expand its fourth-generation high-speed data services.
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