Visuals of heaven and the foreboding staircase leading up to it are always thought-provoking. The makers of the Becel (margarine manufacturer) staircase promotion have...

Ever wonder about the origin of bull markets and bear markets, particularly when a bear market takes over, in times of economic chaos? The Wall Street jargon has a...

Oil prices rebounded to above $90 Tuesday in Asia after plunging to an 8-month low the previous day on concerns a significant slowdown in global economic growth will...

The Indian stock markets are crumbling in the face of global economic melt down. For the stock market investors who still have the courage to invest in stocks this...

Japan’s central bank left its key interest rate unchanged Tuesday amid heightened anxiety that the U.S. credit crisis was quickly spreading from Wall Street to...

Australia’s central bank cut its official interest rate by a bigger-than-expected 1 percentage point Tuesday to ease credit concerns amid a global financial...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will announce Tuesday it is spinning off its manufacturing operations as part of a sweeping plan to cut cuts, The Wall Street Journal...

Iceland’s banks face a battle for survival Tuesday after government introduced emergency legislation to give itself sweeping new powers over its collapsing...

Asian stocks showed signs of life Tuesday after a global market sell-off, with several markets climbing into positive territory or paring losses after opening sharply...

State tax revenue rose slightly in the second quarter, but revenue from sales tax, fuel tax and property tax all dropped compared to a year ago, according to a report...

Recurrent violence in oil-rich parts of Nigeria may provide a sobering lesson for oil companies hoping to work in Iraq _ a place that is much more dangerous despite the...

The government’s $700 billion rescue, aimed at rebuilding economic confidence, appeared to sound a global alarm instead on Monday, triggering a fearful...

RealNetworks Inc. said Monday it had temporarily stopped distributing its DVD copying software, RealDVD, at a federal judge’s request in a copyright case brought...

This is a bit of a long shot but reading this report in the UK’s Daily Telegraph about Russia using big a good harvest as a foreign policy tool, got me thinking...

The Federal Reserve has granted approval for Japan’s largest bank to purchase a stake in U.S. investment giant Morgan Stanley.

Wall Street suffered through another extraordinary and traumatic session Monday, with the Dow Jones industrials plunging as much as 800 points _ their largest one-day...

Agriculture futures traded lower Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

Bank of America Corp.’s third-quarter profit fell 68 percent and the bank says it’s selling stock and halving its dividend to boost capital.

WHAT HAPPENED: Indianapolis-based drug maker Eli Lilly & Co.is buying the biotech firm ImClone Systems Inc. for more than $6 billion.

Foodmaker Kraft Foods Inc. said Monday it is cutting 400 jobs in North America to reduce costs.