243,000 new jobs were added to the U.S. economy in January, pushing unemployment down to 8.3% from 8.5%.

Market analysts were stunned by the improvement in employment, a major bellwether for the...

BEIJING - China, the holder of one of the world's largest foreign exchange reserves, has indicated it may get "more deeply involved" in resolving the European Union debt crisis.

This was stated...

TOKYO - Japan's Panasonic Friday predicted staggering annual loss of $10.2 billion, joining rivals Sony and Sharp who have also forecast combined losses of $6 billion.

Panasonic said it was headed...

LONDON - The eurozone's service sector has shown some growth, marginal though, for the first time in four months, raising expectations that a recession could be kept at bay.

The Markit eurozone...

BRUSSELS - Several countries in Europe are facing gas supply crunch with severe cold weather driving up demand and drop in Russian supplies via Kiev, raising fears of a repeat of the 2009...

LONDON - Seven National Health Services (NHS) trusts, including three in London, have been identified for a bailout from a 1.5 billion pounds government fund to relieve major financial pressures.
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Indian-American attorney Preet Bharara, nicknamed the Sheriff of Wall Street for prosecuting the likes of Rajat Gupta, the poster boy of Indian business in America, has made it to the cover of Time...

Hollywood Actor Brad Pitt admits he gives his children Coca-Cola to get them out of bed in the morning.

Pitt claims he and his partner Angelina Jolie seldom find it difficult to get all six of their...

The Dow jumped 157 points Friday to close at 12,862. That's the highest since May 2008. The Nasdaq composite index closed at its highest level since December...

In 2003, Pat McGeary, manager of Benson Municipal Liquor Store, was trying to keep up with demand after a record sellout of 40 cases in the first week of Shakers' retail...

Lori Lund's two-year quest for a job has been a maddening tale of near-misses. Johnson & Johnson, Land O' Lakes and Kraft offered her positions, only to rescind after deciding to...

Home prices in the Twin Cities and most of the state sank last year as foreclosures took their toll, but outstate areas with strong employment and key industries experienced gains or softer declines....

3M Co. has lost one and won one in its tangled legal battle with an investors group it had sued for allegedly trying to extort $34 million from the Maplewood-based company. In a ruling issued...

Delta Air Lines has reduced the price of a signature office campus in the Twin Cities -- the former home of Northwest Airlines. The Eagan complex, which includes two buildings spanning 550,000...

Xcel Energy Inc. says it is willing to install $50 million in emissions controls on its Sherco coal-fired power plant to help reduce haze over Voyageurs National Park and the Boundary Waters Canoe...

Minnesota has suspended the debt collections license of an Illinois company that lost a laptop computer containing medical records of thousands of patients at Fairview and North Memorial hospitals...

The ringleader of a $2.2 million mortgage fraud ring was sentenced this week to six years in prison and ordered to repay nearly $1 million to two companies. Michael Hudalla, 45, of Mendota Heights,...

Given the choice between a nearly certain prison sentence and seeing their 24-year-old son charged in a mortgage fraud scheme, Jim and Teresa Hoffman chose prison Friday, admitting that they duped...

Inspectors at the San Onofre nuclear plant will have to wait until the middle of next week to enter a reactor and search for a radioactive steam leak.Temperatures were still too hot -- 105 degrees...

Zachary Alan's proposed 60-story skyscraper design incorporates turbines propelled by prevailing offshore winds. It's seen here in the fog from the vantage point of the San Diego-Coronado...

Freedom is the lead ship in the Freedom-class of littoral combat ships. The 378-foot vessel was built in Wisconsin by Marinette Marine. US Navy For at least the fourth time in its young history,...

FILE PHOTO: A consumer cuts coupons from the Sunday advertising circulars, the most common way that people find coupons. To reach even more consumers, marketers are also offering coupons online, in...

A general view of New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police Britain's for-most and largest police serviceFriday, Feb., 3, 2012. Hackers have intercepted a conference...

Facebook stock has popped even before the company makes its Wall Street debut.Yesterday, 100,000 shares of Facebook traded on a private exchange at $40 apiece, according to SharesPost, a company that...

The biggest player in men’s accessories is about to get bigger.Randa Accessories - a New York-based firm that makes men’s belts, wallets, ties and luggage under brands like Levi’s,...

!The NFL Network is adding five Thursday night games to its existing eight-game weeknight package - in part to entice more cable companies to pick up the channel - but non-subscribing cable companies...

Hard-charging New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman - thumbing his nose at an imminent global foreclosure settlement - charged Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America with using a dodgy...

Members of the battling Perelman family are squaring off against one another to seize control of the newspapers in their native Philadelphia. On one side of the battle, billionaire financier Ron...

Some day, the government is going to put out a good economic report and I’ll be able to say, "Yeah, that really is a good report." This isn’t that day. Everyone, of course,...

PHOTO/ FILE A sorghum farm. Siaya County farmers are set to benefit from a new sorghum growing venture piloted by EABL in conjunction with the Ministry of Agriculture and...

With the Nasdaq Composite Index ending the week at an 11-year high, it's perhaps peculiar that the stock-market week was as much about a stock that has yet to trade publicly (namely, Facebook)...

The surprisingly strong U.S. jobs data, and the growing momentum of a 10-week stock market rally could act as a magnet for buyers, with little in the way of new economic reports in the coming week....

CNBC's Bob Pisani and Art Cashin, of UBS, discuss the new highs on the Nasdaq and Dow, and the jobs number surprise. It came with two hefty upside revisions for the previous two months, which is...

Republican front-runner Mitt Romney surged on Friday toward an apparent easy win in Nevada, with a new poll showing him beating rival Newt Gingrich by a 2-to-1 margin on the eve of the state's...

The millionaires, billionaires and companies giving big sums to political committees supporting Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama have important business with the next president. Some are...

On and off the field, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has all the markings of a perfect endorser. He's a winner, he's got the crossover good looks and plenty of...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors on Friday dropped an investigation centered on whether seven-time Tour De France champion Lance Armstrong and his teammates cheated the sponsor of their bike racing...

Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- A surge in new jobs last month improves President Barack Obama’s position on the overriding concern of voters this year, even as slower progress in other economic measures...

Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The New York Giants, led by quarterback Eli Manning, will defeat the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl on Feb. 5, predicted Greg Cosell, a senior producer at NFL Films...

Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. government said the online hacker group Anonymous intercepted a telephone call between FBI agents and U.K. authorities involving a joint investigation of the...

Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- A new round of Federal Reserve bond purchases isn’t warranted because the U.S. job market and broader economy are strengthening faster than expected, according to St....

Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- A study into mine nationalization ordered by South Africa’s ruling African National Congress proposes a 50 percent resource-rent tax rather than taking over operations, a...

Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The Lancair IVP aircraft that Micron Technology Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Appleton was piloting when he died yesterday is known for its performance and a...

Brandon Watson , senior director of Windows Phone developer platform product management, is leaving to become the director of Amazon.com's Kindle cross-platform team. At Amazon, he'll be...

Welcome to Microsoft Pri0: That's Microspeak for top priority, and that's the news and observations you'll find here from Seattle Times technology reporter Janet I....

BOSTON (CBS) – Solid earnings and a surprising jobs report help drive the markets. WBZ New England Business Editor Anthony Silva discusses the week on Wall Street with Dave Caruso, Chairman of...

By day, Robert Leitao manages a Catholic church in Southern California. By night, he indulges his other passion: predicting Apple Inc's (AAPL.O)...

By John W. Schoen, Senior Producer Bankers struggling to deal with faulty foreclosure paperwork just got hit with another major headache.New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, recently...

Storm clouds hang in the sky over a Caterpillar dealer in this undated photo. One analyst says the closure of the Electro-Motive plant in London, Ont., owned by a Caterpillar subsidiary, is part of a...

Angry locked-out workers from Electro-Motive vowed Friday to indefinitely occupy the locomotive plant’s entrance after being hit with the news that Caterpillar Inc. plans on shutting down the...