Sri Lanka will soon build a second international airport on the south of the island, with much of the money coming from...

There has been no agreement reached between British Airways and the Unite...

The US sales of Toyota vehicles declined nearly 9 percent in...

The Chrysler Group in the US has named a new executive to head the reintroduction of the Fiat brand to the local...

In 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...

Mexican telecom giant Carlos Slim has topped Forbes magazine's billionaire's...

The Northern Rock bank in the UK has announced good progress throughout 2009 as it prepares to be...

The John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California has been given permission to once again run flights to and from the Hawaiian...

A Russian company has gone to Argentina to increase its supply of...

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...

Gulf company, Emaar Properties, has announced it will restart discussions with the Indonesian government on a project that was postponed during the economic...

NEW YORK — Citigroup Inc. CEO Vikram Pandit says the bank is on a path toward "sustained profitability" as it sheds risky assets and focuses on emerging markets. Pandit says the bank sees...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - After 20 years as the face of organized labor in Pennsylvania and 50 years since the United Steelworkers issued his first union card, Bill George is stepping down as the state...

REDMOND, Wash., March 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. is offering midsize businesses looking to benefit from advanced functionality, easy interoperability with other line-of-business...

MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company in India on Thursday announced its first locally developed studio project aimed specifically at southern audiences. The yet to be named epic fantasy adventure is to be...

Brian Pitman, chairman of Lloyds TSB Photograph: Martin Godwin Tributes were pouring in tonight after the sudden death of Sir Brian Pitman, one of the most highly respected bankers of his...

With profits up and a further 60 stores planned, the supermarket chain is ready for new chief Dalton Philips Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA Wire/Press Association Images The board of the supermarket...

IDG News Service - Microsoft is offering financial enticements to customers of on-demand ERP vendor NetSuite to switch over to Microsoft's Dynamics family of business applications. NetSuite customers...

Chief Executive Vikram Pandit told investors Thursday that the bank is on track to return to sustained profitability, and that losses from some of its worst assets should be manageable if the economy...

March 11 (Bloomberg) -- House and Senate leaders have agreed on most elements of legislation needed to push forward President Barack Obama’s proposed overhaul of the U.S. health- care system,...

March 11 (Bloomberg) -- The Chicago Board Options Exchange, the largest U.S. equity derivatives market and the last major member-owned American bourse, filed to sell as much as $300 million in stock...

March 11 (Bloomberg) -- John Hale’s four-bedroom house near Seattle is worth about $2 million and is 90 percent paid for. It still took him nine months to find a bank that would give him a...

March 12 (Bloomberg) -- India, which has tripled its defense spending in a race against China’s military buildup, is having trouble converting the funding into weapons and equipment its...

Wall Street banks are seeking exemptions to proposed new financial derivatives rules that could shield more than half the trades that should be subject to disclosure, a federal regulator said...

Inc. reports net income of $113.7 million, or $1.55 per diluted share, its first fiscal quarter that ended Jan. 31. The Charlotte-based company, which provides service throughout the Triad, earned...

WASHINGTON: Bill Gates is not the world's richest man anymore. Carlos Slim is the new fat cat. The Mexican telecom tycoon has displaced Gates at the top of Forbes billionaires list for 2010. The ...

Did they realize, Trumka asked, that Wall Street bankers gave their employees $16.2 billion in bonuses? “If you and your fellow workers had a chance to talk to some of those Wall Street people,...

The US trade deficit fell unexpectedly in January, following a big drop in imports of oil and foreign cars.The US Commerce Department said the trade gap was a seasonally adjusted $37.3bn...

British Airways is facing a second potential dispute, with the Unite union threatening to ballot ground staff over proposed changes to working practices, Sky sources...

Banking giant HSBC has apologised after revealing that details of 15,000 wealthy customers who held accounts with its Swiss private bank were stolen by an...

Google has added an iPad-friendly version of its RSS aggregator, called Google Reader Play. According to the official Google Reader blog, the new full-screen slideshow is for people who...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Northrop Grumman Corp. said Thursday that it expects to a see a lull in work at its maintenance and modification center in Hagerstown, Md. About 180 employees will be affected....

NEW YORK -- Copper futures finished with slight gains on Thursday, receiving a boost after Chile, the world's largest producer of the metal, was hit by aftershocks to last month's earthquake. Copper...

(Adds comments beginning in the eighth paragraph.) WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Obama administration will strictly enforce existing trade deals as it seeks to expand into new markets and double...

PHM ) offered to purchase 27 San Antonio homes damaged by a January retaining-wall collapse that created crevices up to 15 feet deep and eight feet wide. The builder will also erect a new wall, a...

WELLINGTON -(Dow Jones)- New Zealand Finance Minister Bill English said Friday the government would heed the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's call to control public spending to help curb a rise in...

Technology stocks continued to waver in afternoon trading Thursday as the sector got caught up in the broader market's marginal losses, fueled by rising prices and China and ever-present concerns...

QUITO -(Dow Jones)- Ecuador's state-owned Esmeraldas refinery will close for a 15-day maintenance period Friday, said the country's minister of nonrenewable natural resources, Germanico Pinto. At a...

DVN ) deal to sell off the bulk of its offshore and international assets to U.K. oil giant BP PLC (BP, BP.LN) for $7 billion will help it raise more money than the company expected from its asset...

C ) Chief Executive Vikram Pandit's presentation at his bank's financial services conference show that Citi's goal is to generate a 1.25% to 1.5% return on assets in its core businesses. Last year,...

C.N ) Chief Executive Vikram Pandit told investors on Thursday that the bank is on track to return to sustained profitability, and that losses from some of its worst assets should be manageable if...

(Reuters) - Lingering U.S. labor market weakness and nagging doubts about the solidity of the economic recovery are expected to keep the Federal Reserve committed to holding borrowing costs very low...

Gamers play the slot machines at the Empire City Casino in Yonkers, New York. The Aqueduct Entertainment Group consortium was denied a licence to operate a similar facility at Queens. N.Y....

Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney said Thursday emerging economies should allow their currencies to appreciate, in an effort to unwind massive trade imbalances and ensure global economic...

OTTAWA -- Don Drummond, the chief economist at Toronto-Dominion Bank and much-quoted analyst on matters related to federal fiscal policy, will retire at the end of June, the bank announced Thursday. ...

LONDON -- London-based oil major BP has agreed to buy Brazilian, Azeri and Gulf of Mexico assets from Devon Energy for $7 billion, as the U.S. producer refocuses on onshore U.S. fields. The...

Senator Bob Corker said the White House's efforts to push through sweeping healthcare reforms at the same time lawmakers were grappling with rewriting financial regulations derailed the...

An array of economic data coming forth on Thursday, from Canada and elsewhere, failed to give stocks any obvious signal of which way to turn. At midday, the Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX...