Osaka May End Tokyo Lure as Energy Surplus Meets Quake Risk - Bloomberg

Japanese companies may rethink their century-long trend of concentrating resources in Tokyo after the nation’s record earthquake crimped power supply to the capital and radiation […]

Osborne Lowers U.K. Growth Forecast, Increases Borrowing, Cuts Company Tax - Bloomberg

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said the British economy will grow more slowly than forecast in 2011 and the U.K. will need to borrow […]

Flaherty to Boost Spending While Seeking Balance as Canada Election Looms - Bloomberg

Canada’s Finance Minister Jim Flaherty will use an improving fiscal outlook to finance new spending in a fiscal plan later today, even as he seeks […]

Economic aftershocks of Japan quake roil Asia

Economic aftershocks of the devastation in Japan are rolling through Asia. It is here, among Japan’s neighbors, that the reverberations of the catastrophe are being […]

G-7 Sells Yen in First Joint Intervention Since 2000 to Ease Japan Crisis - Bloomberg

The Group of Seven jointly intervened in the foreign exchange market for the first time in more than a decade after Japan’s currency soared, threatening […]

Iraqis eyeing Bahrain protests with anger, caution

Concerns over clashes in Bahrain between Shiite protesters and security forces from Sunni Arab states spilled over into Iraq on Thursday, as thousands of Shiite […]

Emerson, MEMC say Japanese workers are safe

MEMC and Emerson say their employees in Japan are safe, although the disaster closed MEMC’s Japanese plant.
MEMC, based in O’Fallon, Mo., has a plant in […]

Philippines May Raise $4.6 Billion to Help Fund Roads, Rails - Bloomberg

The Philippines plans to raise as much as 200 billion pesos ($4.6 billion) from state-run financial institutions to help fund roads, railways and ports, Economic […]

GM CFO Liddell leaving after just a year

General Motors chief financial officer Chris Liddell is leaving the company after just over a year on the job, a period in which the […]

HCA shares climb in first day of NYSE trading

Shares of hospital operator HCA Holdings are climbing in their New York Stock Exchange trading debut.
The stock rose more than 3 percent, or $1, to […]