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Dollar Hits 14-Month Low Against Euro
The dollar slid to a 14-month low against the euro Wednesday as investor appetite for risk increased following upbeat comments from Intel Corp.
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2 IPOs to Test U.S. Appetite for China Stocks
Two Chinese IPOs expected to start trading this week are going to be a gauge for Americans' taste for Beijing's offerings, some of which have ...
India Auto Sales Jump 17.1% in September
India's auto sales rose 17.1 percent in September from a year earlier to 212,975 vehicles, as holiday buying, easier credit and rising consumer confidence fueled ...
Natural Gas Shale May Be Next Big Boom or Bubble
The promise of enough natural gas to last the United States more than 100 years based on discoveries of vast shale formations could be the ...
Comcast Deal Lets GE Unwind Stake in NBC Universal
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Asian Stocks Rise on Solid Growth Data
Most Asian stock markets advanced Tuesday, with Japanese and Hong Kong benchmarks gaining 1 percent or more, amid signs of economic improvement in Asia and ...
China Hainan Airlines to Begin Service to Hawaii
China's Hainan Airlines has received approval to begin service from Beijing to Hawaii. The U.S. Department of Transportation approved the flights, which initially will be ...
Sidekick Phones Lose All Personal, Contacts Data
Owners of Sidekick phones may have lost all the personal information they put on the device, including contact numbers, because of a failure of servers ...
Carly Simon Sues Starbucks for Poor Promotion
Singer Carly Simon is suing Starbucks Corp., saying the coffee company's now-defunct music venture didn't adequately promote her 2008 album, dooming the record before it ...
Singapore Economy Surges for 2nd Straight Quarter
Singapore's economy surged for a second straight quarter, and the government boosted its 2009 growth forecast, as manufacturing cemented the city-state's emergence from recession.
Economy Shows Many Recovery Signs
Consumer spending, the bulwark of economic growth, is showing signs of life as the economy transitions from recession to recovery. The key question is whether ...
China Tycoon Floats $8 Bil.-Plan for U.S. Green Cars
Yang Rong was once celebrated as a pioneering automobile entrepreneur who founded the first Chinese company to be listed on Wall Street. Then, seven years ...
Manhattan Apartment Sales Soared in Q3
Blink. What housing downturn? Sales of apartments and co-op units in Manhattan soared between 46 and 69 percent from the second to the third quarter, ...
Japan Consumer Spending Rose 2.6% in August
Japan's jobless rate fell and household spending climbed in August — a double dose of good news for the world's No. 2 economy though it ...
Toyota Warns Against Wrong-Size Floor Mats
Toyota's president said it was "extremely regrettable" an American family died in a crash in which a floor mat in one of the Japanese automaker's ...
IBM Undercuts Google with Corporate Email Service
IBM Corp. is trying to stymie Google Inc.'s expansion into the business software market. The weapon: a bare-bones e-mail service that IBM is selling to ...
Comcast Mulls Controlling Stake in NBC Universal
Comcast Corp. might spend billions for a stake in NBC Universal, a deal that would transform the nation's largest cable TV provider into one of ...
Consumer Spending Jumped in August
Consumer spending, propelled by the wildly popular Cash for Clunkers auto sales program, shot up in August by the largest amount in nearly eight years ...
New Jobless Claims Show Surprising Rise
First-time claims for jobless benefits increased more than expected last week, a sign employers are reluctant to hire and the job market remains weak. And ...
GM Kills Off Saturn
For those who expected General Motors' once-funky Saturn brand to live on with a new owner, there has been a sad twist. Saturn, once billed ...
Consumer Spending Now Driven by Amazing Bargains
There has never been a better time to be a consumer. America is on sale. The Great Recession has caused massive job losses and hardship ...
Microsoft Video on Windows 7 Launch Parties Amuses
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TV Nets Weave More Ads into Series Plotlines
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Prius Boosts Size, Gas Mileage for 2010
There's a little something extra for car buyers who have their hearts set on top fuel mileage in the Toyota Prius. But they'd better not ...
GM Ends Trial Selling Cars on eBay
General Motors Co. said Tuesday that it is concluding its partnership with eBay Inc. in which the automaker used the auction site to sell new ...
CIT May File Chapt. 11 If Lender Meeting Fails
CIT Group Inc.'s shares soared Tuesday on a report that hedge fund manager John Paulson is considering merging the troubled finance company with failed mortgage ...
China Romantic Comedy Gets Fox Investment
Fox Filmed Entertainment says it has invested in its first Chinese film, becoming the latest Hollywood studio to enter the booming mainland movie market. The ...
AT&T to Sell Garmin GPS-Hybrid Nuvifone
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Leading China Filmmaker Plans $91 Mil. IPO
Huayi Brothers, one of China's leading filmmakers, has listed itself on ChiNext with an eye toward raising 620 million Chinese yuan ($91 million) in an ...
Warner to Return Music to YouTube Under New Deal
Warner Music Group Corp. has agreed to return songs and music videos from its artists to the YouTube video site, after a monthslong boycott over ...
Toyota Previews All-Electric, Green Sports Car
Besides showing off its well-known hybrids, Toyota will take a slightly different tack at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show to display a green sportscar with ...
Ciena to Buy Nortel Assets for $521 Mil.
Ciena Corp. says it has agreed to by the optical networking and carrier Ethernet assets of Nortel Networks' Metro Ethernet Networks business for roughly $521 ...
Costco Beats Street Despite Profit Slip
Costco Wholesale Corp. said Wednesday that its fiscal fourth-quarter profit fell 6 percent, partly on the stronger dollar and increased employee benefit costs, but results ...
Burger King Upgrades to Hip New Look
Burger King Corp. plans to swap its generic fast-food feel and bland tiles and tabletops for a vibe that's more sit-down than drive-through. As part ...
Gold Hits New Record High on Falling Dollar
Gold prices surged to a new high Tuesday as investors sought a safe harbor from a falling dollar and inflation. Gold for December delivery rose ...
Next Boom Likely to Be Powered by Cleantech
Our economy sure could use the Next Big Thing. Something on the scale of railroads, automobiles or the Internet — the kind of breakthrough that ...
Stocks Rise, Dollar Sinks on Aussie Interest-Rate Hike
The dollar tumbled Tuesday, hitting a 14-month low against the Australian currency and circling year lows against the euro, after an interest rate increase from ...
Samsung to Report Record Profits for Q3
Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that profit likely surged in the third quarter on higher sales, amid a brightening outlook for the world's largest manufacturer ...
Bailed Out Dairy Industry Must Restructure: Ag Sect'y
The struggling U.S. dairy industry must be restructured to avoid cycles of boom and bust, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Monday, less than a week ...
3-D TVs Shown at Japan Electronics Show
Japan's big name electronic manufacturers are readying flat-screen TVs that can show high-definition movies and video games in 3D for launch next year. At the ...
iPad May Be Kindle's First Serious eBook Threat
Amazon.com, which has dominated the young but fast-growing electronic book market for the past few years with the Kindle
FTC Regulates Online Reviews, Blogs, Testimonials
The Federal Trade Commission on Monday took steps to make product information and online reviews more accurate for consumers, regulating blogging for the first time ...
Las Vegas CityCenter Slashes Condo Prices
Developers of the $8.5 billion CityCenter on the Las Vegas Strip plan a 30 percent price cut on condos there that people have already agreed ...
PC Shipments Rise in Q3, Bodes Well for Holidays
Worldwide shipments of personal computers edged back up in the third quarter, according to researchers, a promising sign for the industry as it heads into ...
Non-Auto Retail Sales Better Than Expected in Sept.
Retail sales declined in September by the largest amount this year as car sales plummeted following the end of the government's popular Cash for Clunkers ...
China Export Slump Eases, Lending Surges
China's export slump eased in September as global demand showed signs of recovery and banks stepped up lending to help fuel a turnaround in the ...
Dollar Hits 14-Month Low Against Euro
The dollar slid to a 14-month low against the euro Wednesday as investor appetite for risk increased following upbeat comments from Intel Corp.
Intel Boosts Wall Street Despite Profits Drop
Intel Corp. has been asserting for months that the personal computer business is rebounding from its deepest slump in nearly a decade. Its stock jumped ...
Kindle eBooks Get Mixed Reviews on College Campuses
It's an experiment that has made back-to-school a little easier on the back: Amazon.com gave more than 200 college students its Kindle e-reading device this ...
Bloomberg to Buy BusinessWeek for Pittance
Bloomberg LP is buying BusinessWeek magazine in a deal that brings together a financial news service specializing in rapid-fire updates with a print publication struggling ...
Consumer Stinginess Shows Up in Corporate Profits
People aren't just shopping more at Family Dollar. They're buying the cheapest stuff on its racks. Even Pizza Hut's sales are slowing as consumers seek ...
2 IPOs to Test U.S. Appetite for China Stocks
Two Chinese IPOs expected to start trading this week are going to be a gauge for Americans' taste for Beijing's offerings, some of which have ...
India Auto Sales Jump 17.1% in September
India's auto sales rose 17.1 percent in September from a year earlier to 212,975 vehicles, as holiday buying, easier credit and rising consumer confidence fueled ...
Natural Gas Shale May Be Next Big Boom or Bubble
The promise of enough natural gas to last the United States more than 100 years based on discoveries of vast shale formations could be the ...
Comcast Deal Lets GE Unwind Stake in NBC Universal
A proposed deal to acquire media giant NBC Universal would give current owner General Electric Co. the ability to unwind its stake over several years, ...
Asian Stocks Rise on Solid Growth Data
Most Asian stock markets advanced Tuesday, with Japanese and Hong Kong benchmarks gaining 1 percent or more, amid signs of economic improvement in Asia and ...
China Hainan Airlines to Begin Service to Hawaii
China's Hainan Airlines has received approval to begin service from Beijing to Hawaii. The U.S. Department of Transportation approved the flights, which initially will be ...
Sidekick Phones Lose All Personal, Contacts Data
Owners of Sidekick phones may have lost all the personal information they put on the device, including contact numbers, because of a failure of servers ...
Carly Simon Sues Starbucks for Poor Promotion
Singer Carly Simon is suing Starbucks Corp., saying the coffee company's now-defunct music venture didn't adequately promote her 2008 album, dooming the record before it ...
Singapore Economy Surges for 2nd Straight Quarter
Singapore's economy surged for a second straight quarter, and the government boosted its 2009 growth forecast, as manufacturing cemented the city-state's emergence from recession.
Economy Shows Many Recovery Signs
Consumer spending, the bulwark of economic growth, is showing signs of life as the economy transitions from recession to recovery. The key question is whether ...
China Tycoon Floats $8 Bil.-Plan for U.S. Green Cars
Yang Rong was once celebrated as a pioneering automobile entrepreneur who founded the first Chinese company to be listed on Wall Street. Then, seven years ...
Manhattan Apartment Sales Soared in Q3
Blink. What housing downturn? Sales of apartments and co-op units in Manhattan soared between 46 and 69 percent from the second to the third quarter, ...
Japan Consumer Spending Rose 2.6% in August
Japan's jobless rate fell and household spending climbed in August — a double dose of good news for the world's No. 2 economy though it ...
Toyota Warns Against Wrong-Size Floor Mats
Toyota's president said it was "extremely regrettable" an American family died in a crash in which a floor mat in one of the Japanese automaker's ...
IBM Undercuts Google with Corporate Email Service
IBM Corp. is trying to stymie Google Inc.'s expansion into the business software market. The weapon: a bare-bones e-mail service that IBM is selling to ...
Comcast Mulls Controlling Stake in NBC Universal
Comcast Corp. might spend billions for a stake in NBC Universal, a deal that would transform the nation's largest cable TV provider into one of ...
Consumer Spending Jumped in August
Consumer spending, propelled by the wildly popular Cash for Clunkers auto sales program, shot up in August by the largest amount in nearly eight years ...
New Jobless Claims Show Surprising Rise
First-time claims for jobless benefits increased more than expected last week, a sign employers are reluctant to hire and the job market remains weak. And ...
GM Kills Off Saturn
For those who expected General Motors' once-funky Saturn brand to live on with a new owner, there has been a sad twist. Saturn, once billed ...
Consumer Spending Now Driven by Amazing Bargains
There has never been a better time to be a consumer. America is on sale. The Great Recession has caused massive job losses and hardship ...
Microsoft Video on Windows 7 Launch Parties Amuses
You almost have to feel bad for Microsoft. The software maker isn't known for hip marketing tactics, and now that a Windows 7 video has ...
TV Nets Weave More Ads into Series Plotlines
In television's latest quest to discourage viewers from skipping ads, actors from NBC and ABC shows are appearing in character in commercials to interact with ...
Prius Boosts Size, Gas Mileage for 2010
There's a little something extra for car buyers who have their hearts set on top fuel mileage in the Toyota Prius. But they'd better not ...
GM Ends Trial Selling Cars on eBay
General Motors Co. said Tuesday that it is concluding its partnership with eBay Inc. in which the automaker used the auction site to sell new ...
CIT May File Chapt. 11 If Lender Meeting Fails
CIT Group Inc.'s shares soared Tuesday on a report that hedge fund manager John Paulson is considering merging the troubled finance company with failed mortgage ...
China Romantic Comedy Gets Fox Investment
Fox Filmed Entertainment says it has invested in its first Chinese film, becoming the latest Hollywood studio to enter the booming mainland movie market. The ...
AT&T to Sell Garmin GPS-Hybrid Nuvifone
After more than a year of delays, Garmin Ltd.'s GPS unit/wireless device hybrid nuvifone is finally going on sale in the U.S. Garmin, based in ...
Leading China Filmmaker Plans $91 Mil. IPO
Huayi Brothers, one of China's leading filmmakers, has listed itself on ChiNext with an eye toward raising 620 million Chinese yuan ($91 million) in an ...
Warner to Return Music to YouTube Under New Deal
Warner Music Group Corp. has agreed to return songs and music videos from its artists to the YouTube video site, after a monthslong boycott over ...
Toyota Previews All-Electric, Green Sports Car
Besides showing off its well-known hybrids, Toyota will take a slightly different tack at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show to display a green sportscar with ...
Ciena to Buy Nortel Assets for $521 Mil.
Ciena Corp. says it has agreed to by the optical networking and carrier Ethernet assets of Nortel Networks' Metro Ethernet Networks business for roughly $521 ...
Costco Beats Street Despite Profit Slip
Costco Wholesale Corp. said Wednesday that its fiscal fourth-quarter profit fell 6 percent, partly on the stronger dollar and increased employee benefit costs, but results ...
Burger King Upgrades to Hip New Look
Burger King Corp. plans to swap its generic fast-food feel and bland tiles and tabletops for a vibe that's more sit-down than drive-through. As part ...
Gold Hits New Record High on Falling Dollar
Gold prices surged to a new high Tuesday as investors sought a safe harbor from a falling dollar and inflation. Gold for December delivery rose ...
Next Boom Likely to Be Powered by Cleantech
Our economy sure could use the Next Big Thing. Something on the scale of railroads, automobiles or the Internet — the kind of breakthrough that ...
Stocks Rise, Dollar Sinks on Aussie Interest-Rate Hike
The dollar tumbled Tuesday, hitting a 14-month low against the Australian currency and circling year lows against the euro, after an interest rate increase from ...
Samsung to Report Record Profits for Q3
Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that profit likely surged in the third quarter on higher sales, amid a brightening outlook for the world's largest manufacturer ...
Bailed Out Dairy Industry Must Restructure: Ag Sect'y
The struggling U.S. dairy industry must be restructured to avoid cycles of boom and bust, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Monday, less than a week ...
3-D TVs Shown at Japan Electronics Show
Japan's big name electronic manufacturers are readying flat-screen TVs that can show high-definition movies and video games in 3D for launch next year. At the ...
iPad May Be Kindle's First Serious eBook Threat
Amazon.com, which has dominated the young but fast-growing electronic book market for the past few years with the Kindle
FTC Regulates Online Reviews, Blogs, Testimonials
The Federal Trade Commission on Monday took steps to make product information and online reviews more accurate for consumers, regulating blogging for the first time ...
Las Vegas CityCenter Slashes Condo Prices
Developers of the $8.5 billion CityCenter on the Las Vegas Strip plan a 30 percent price cut on condos there that people have already agreed ...
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