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 […]

Watchdog says future bailouts appear more likely

A government official says the financial overhaul enacted last summer won’t deliver on its promise to end bailouts.
Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky says in a […]

China praises Hu’s trip to US as ‘fruitful’

China says its president’s recently concluded state visit to the United States was “fruitful” but the two countries need to work on trust so that […]

Australian flood crisis threatens city and towns

Rural towns in Australia’s southeast and the nation’s third largest city were on flood watch Friday as rivers surged in a weekslong flood crisis that […]

Loonie rises past 99 cents U.S.

The Canadian dollar gained ground against the U.S. dollar Thursday, as strong economic data from earlier in the week continues to bolster the loonie on […]

Fed’s Rosengren Sees Bank Completing Entire $600 Billion Stimulus Program - Bloomberg

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren said he expects the central bank to buy the entire $600 billion of Treasuries policy makers authorized […]

Debt Panel’s Leaders to Release Plan for Cutting U.S. Deficit After Crisis - Bloomberg

Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the co-chairmen of the U.S. debt-reduction commission, plan to release their proposal to the panel today at 1 p.m. Washington […]

Stocks at a standstill ahead of Fed

Stocks ended a choppy session little changed Monday as investors remained jittery ahead of the week’s three big events — the midterm elections, the […]

What deflation? Prices are rising!

Deflation might be the economic buzzword right now, yet prices seem to be going up on everything from a cup of coffee to Dallas […]

Hyundai Heavy Industries plant will employ 1,000

The new $90 million Hyundai Heavy Industries manufacturing facility in Montgomery will employ 1,000 workers, doubling the total employment initially announced for the facility.
The project, […]