 Defects unable to stop Toyota sales in USThe US sales of Toyota vehicles declined nearly 9 percent in... | |
 Chrysler takes Volkswagen exec to run FiatThe Chrysler Group in the US has named a new executive to head the reintroduction of the Fiat brand to the local... |
 Kansas City school district shrunken to reduce deficitIn the US, the school board in Kansas City has decided to close 26 of the city's 59 public schools to keep the district afloat... |
 Orange County residents can now go direct to the islandsThe John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California has been given permission to once again run flights to and from the Hawaiian... |
| Forbes says Gates no longer the world's richest Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, knocking Microsoft founder Bill Gates into second spot, as the wealth of the world's billionaires grew by 50 per cent over the last... |
| Plex Systems, Inc. Attains Gold Certified Partner Status In Microsoft Partner Program ERP software for manufacturers , today announced it has attained Gold Certified Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program with competencies in Business Intelligence and Hosting Solutions,... |
| Groundbreaking Ceremony Thursday For Nets Arena NEW YORK -- A groundbreaking ceremony is set for the long-delayed Brooklyn development that includes a new arena for the New Jersey Nets.The $1 billion arena was announced in 2003 and was originally... |
| Sensata Shares Rise After Ipo Raises $568.8m NEW YORK -- Shares of Sensata Technologies, which raised $568.8 million in the biggest IPO this year, are rising in their trading debut.Sensata Technologies Holding NV, based in the Netherlands,... |
| Signature Bank Warrants Bring $11.15 Million WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department has received $11.15 million from the sale of warrants it received from New York's Signature Bank as part of the support it provided during the financial... |
| Sensata Raises $568.8m In Biggest Ipo This Year NEW YORK -- Sensata Technologies Holding NV priced its shares at the bottom of its expected range, raising $568.8 million in the biggest initial public offering so far this year.The Netherlands... |
| Israeli Start-ups May Benefit From Microsoft Cloud Computing Plans Last week's speech by Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer at the University of Washington about cloud computing may be good news for Israeli start-ups in the sector that collaborate with the company. PHP... |
| The Pandemic That Wasn't The H1N1 swine flu outbreak appears to have ended less like the rogue wild boar that United Nations bureaucrats predicted and more like roasted pork tenderloin with apples and sage. From the... |
| Money Lessons From The World's Wealthiest Families A family office offers the Maybach of wealth management services to the wealthiest families in the world. A family office provides integrated advice on investment management, tax planning, estate... |
| Home Depot Shrinks Its Energy Bill The Home Depot has already cut its energy use 16% since 2004. But that's not enough. The home improvement retailer wants to push that reduction another four percentage points to use 20% less energy... |
| Are You Born To Be A Billionaire? Read All Comments "Highly successful entrepreneurs view failure as a way to gather data," says psychologist David Ballard, head of the American Psychological Association Health Workplace Program.... |
| Iea Chief Predicts End Of Internal Combustion Engine By 2050 Enjoy your gas guzzlers while you can, because Nobuo Tanaka, executive director of the International Energy Agency, predicts that, "By 2050 the combustion engine will disappear." Speaking at the... |
| Apple's Ipad: A "trojan Horse" For Sprint? Verizon Wireless isn't the only wireless operator that views the Apple iPad as an opportunity to market the strength of its network. Rival Sprint Nextel does, too. As Engadget noted in... |
| Yahoo! A Value Trap Thursday morning Benchmark downgraded shares of Yahoo! from buy to hold, calling the stock a value trap. While shares could appear attractive at these levels, the firm warns that further losses in... |
| Avatar Helps Imax Break Records Investors have shorted the stock over recent months due to doubts over the company's ability to take its digital projection technology overseas, but IMAX squashed that concern Wednesday when it... |
| Bp Gets Into Brazil people ) said it will pay $7 billion for stakes in 10 exploration blocks in Brazil, 240 leases in the Gulf of Mexico, and a 5.6% stake in Azerbaijan assets, of which it already holds... |
| Pork Problems Can't Spoil Smithfield's Profit Pork is a problem for meat processors, as two industry leaders have struggled to respond to a deadly combination of weak demand and excess supply.While... |
| Thursday Briefing: Billionaires, Rite Aid And Greece Billionaires list , Forbes reported yesterday that Carlo Slim Helu edged out Bill Gates as the richest person in the world. Today will be a relatively quiet one on Wall Street, with drugstore Rite... |
| Senate-passed Health Bill Would Cut Deficit: Cbo Congressional budget referees say Senate legislation that's now the foundation for President Barack Obama's health care plan would cut the federal deficit by $118 billion over 10... |
| 30-year Mortgage Rate Remains Below 5 Percent U.S. mortgage rates dropped for a second straight week, remaining below 5 percent, a key level that could boost home loan demand, a closely watched mortgage survey showed on... |
| Simon Ceo: General Growth's Rival Plan 'lacks Certainty' That plan has backing from Canada's Brookfield Asset Management Pershing Square is General Growth's largest shareholder, and Fairholme its largest... |
| Pink Floyd Suit: Sell All The Bricks In 'the Wall' Concept rockers Pink Floyd, seen here playing at Live 8 in London in 2005, won a suit Thursday against EMI to preserve the "artistic integrity" of their... |
| Financial Reform Bill Coming From Democrats WASHINGTON (CNNMoney.com) -- A key Senate banking panel is poised to release and start working on its financial overhaul bill next week, despite a lack of consensus on some key issues.Senate Banking... |
| Brighter Outlook For International Airlines NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The international airline business is improving, said an industry group Thursday, and while losses are still expected for 2010, they should be half the size previously... |
| Stocks In Early Selloff NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Stocks inched lower Thursday morning as investors weighed a drop in weekly jobless claims, a narrower-than-expected U.S. deficit and sliding commodity prices.The Dow Jones... |
| U.s. Court Reaffirms I4i Patent Win Over Microsoft Software company i4i says it has another legal victory over Microsoft Corp. in its patent infringement dispute. A three-member panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has again... |
| Microsoft To Appeal B.c. Court Ruling On Class Action Lawsuit Microsoft Corp. plans to appeal a British Columbia court decision that certified a class-action lawsuit alleging the computer giant illegally got rid of its competition, then raised its prices.In a... |
| Dodd To Go It Alone On New Financial Regulations View Market Summaries & Leading Stock Changes Unable to muster bipartisan agreement on key banking provisions, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd said Thursday he will offer his own... |
| Options Exchange Cboe Files For $300m Ipo The Chicago Board Options Exchange has filed for an initial public offering of up to $300 million as it converts from a member-owned organization to a publicly traded corporation. The Chicago... |
| Revel Consulting Hires Former Microsoft Director To Drive New Business And Ensure Client Success www.revelconsulting.com ), a Kirkland, Washington based business management consulting firm, announced today the appointment of Leslie Rissberger as Consulting Director. A former director at... |
| Sarkozy, Merkel Propose Ban On Some Cds Trades PARIS -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are leading a proposal that calls for mandatory reporting of all derivatives trading in Europe as a way of clamping down... |
| German Economy To Shrink In Q1, Think Tank Says BERLIN -- A leading German think-tank says it expects the country's economy - Europe's biggest - to contract in the first quarter because of an unusually harsh winter.The IfW group said Thursday... |
| Eu Says Us Has Pressed It On Hedge Fund Rules BRUSSELS -- The U.S. has pressed the European Union on draft rules to regulate hedge funds, but should respect Europe's right to decide its own legislation, a top EU finance official said... |
| Ahead Of The Bell: Video Game Sales NEW YORK -- U.S. video game sales could likely show a decline Thursday when the NPD Group releases its February sales figures after the market closes.Software sales have declined for much of the... |
| Report: Airbus, Engine Consortium Seek Damages BERLIN -- A German newspaper reports that Airbus' military arm and the engine-making consortium for the A400M transporter plane are seeking hundreds of millions of euros from each other in a dispute... |
| Smithfield Foods Returns To 3rd-quarter Profit DILE - In this March 10, 2009 file photo, Smithfield Food products are on display at the Ukrops store in Richmond, Va. Meat processor Smithfield Foods returned to a profit in the third quarter... |
| Stocks Edge Down After Jobs Data U.S. stocks struggled to extend recent gains early Thursday after the Labor Department reported initial jobless claims fell less than expected.The number of workers who filed for unemployment... |
| Forbes Fantasy Baseball Investment Guide: Starting Pitchers RP Last week, we analyzed closers. And starters, much like their late-inning counterparts, are a difficult bunch to project. As a general rule, pitchers are much more prone to injury and... |
| Best Cities To Rent And Own in Malibu, Calif. You could jump out of the pool at this abode, pull on your shorts and flip-flops and be in downtown Beverly Hills in 40 minutes (traffic permitting). It so happens that the property... |
| Jobless Claims Drop But Employment Picture Still Murky Initial claims for state unemployment benefits slipped 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 462,000 from 468,000 the prior week, the Labor Department said Thursday. That was a touch less than market... |
| Foreclosure Rates Improve, But Problems Continue Home foreclosure rates fell again in February compared with the previous month, but remained higher than a year ago, according to a new report released... |
| Dodd To Move Ahead On Financial Support Without Gop Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) said he would unveil a revised package of financial regulatory reforms on Monday without the Republicans and will begin mark up on the bill... |
| Smithfield Foods Profit Tops Market View The company also said pork sales to China and Russia should resume soon, and restructuring its pork segment should boost earnings in this fiscal year and the next one. Shares of Smithfield, whose... |
| House Gop Leaders Press Earmark Moratorium WASHINGTON - House GOP leaders are pushing rank-and-file Republicans to break their addiction to pet projects by going cold turkey and giving up the long-cherished practice of directing federal... |
| Kansas City, Facing Bankruptcy, Closing Half Its Schools Facing potential bankruptcy, the board that governs the once flush-with-cash Kansas City school district is taking the unusual and contentious step of shuttering almost half its... |
| Options Exchange Cboe Files For $300 Million Ipo The Chicago Board Options Exchange has filed for an initial public offering of up to $300 million as it converts from a member-owned organization to a publicly traded... |
