Yemen protesters demand wounded leader’s ouster

Nearly 100,000 Yemenis protested Friday in a main square of the capital, demanding the president’s ouster in the biggest rally since Ali Abdullah Saleh left […]

TSX flat amid disappointing U.S. job growth

The Toronto stock market was little changed Friday as the latest U.S. employment data widely missed expectations and further cemented the view that the U.S. […]

AP Interview: Iraq PM says Libya assault selective

Iraq’s prime minister on Saturday called the international crackdown on Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi “selective,” chastising foreign forces for singling out one oppressive Mideast regime without […]

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 […]

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 […]

EU Parliament votes to ban CDS speculation

The European Parliament voted Monday to stop investors from buying insurance for government debt if they don’t own the underlying bond, as it seeks to […]

First foreigners identified among NZ quake dead

Two Israeli backpackers were the first foreigners named among the dead in last week’s earthquake in New Zealand, as the painstaking work of confirming the […]

Obama’s Budget to `Cut What We Can’t Afford,’ Lew Writes in New York Times - Bloomberg

President Barack Obama will send Congress a “tough choices” budget next week that would cut some of his own programs in the environment, community development […]

Ad sales, lower costs lift News Corp.’s 2Q profit

News Corp.’s earnings in the last three months of the year surpassed analysts’ forecasts with better-than-expected advertising revenue growth at its cable TV channels like […]