GM earns $3.2 billion in 1Q on higher sales

General Motors Co. reported its highest quarterly profit in more than a decade, helped by fuel-efficient cars and smaller SUVs that were in demand as […]

Voice recorder of 2009 Air France flight found

French investigators have found and recovered the cockpit voice recorder from a 2009 Air France flight that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 […]

Global companies can offer safe investment opportunities

International investment experts are seeing safe global companies to invest in that are reasonably priced because so many investors have become petrified by world events.
Some […]

End of QE2 has some investors fearing fall in June

Could the financial markets be heading for a June swoon?
The answer likely hinges on what happens after the Federal Reserve’s $600 billion effort to boost […]

Japan rattled by aftershock 1 month after tsunami

A strong new earthquake rattled Japan’s northeast Monday just hours after people bowed their heads and wept in ceremonies to mark a month since the […]

Citi to start clearing smaller checks first

Citi says it will start clearing customer checks in a way that minimizes the potential for multiple overdraft charges.
In an internal memo sent Monday, the […]

London boot camp held for pint-size ‘princesses’

A scene straight from “My Fair Lady” played out at a posh London hotel Saturday as a dozen girls in frilly dresses attended a “princess […]

KV Pharmaceutical stock drops in wake of FDA news

Shares of KV Pharmaceutical Co. tumbled by almost a third this morning after the Food and Drug Administration announced that it does not intend to take enforcement […]

Fed’s Kocherlakota Says ‘Highly Accommodative’ Policy Warranted on Jobless - Bloomberg

The Federal Reserve’s policy of near-zero interest rates and large-scale asset purchases is warranted, given a natural rate of unemployment that may be as high […]

BHP profit soars, returning $10B to shareholders

BHP Billiton Ltd., the world’s biggest mining company, said Wednesday it plans to return $10 billion to its shareholders after soaring iron ore and copper […]