From Staff Reports Germany's Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg will take over SachsenLB, the smaller public-sector German bank that helped the subprime...
From Staff Reports Aluminum Corp. of China Ltd. (NYSE: ACH) and Jiangxi Copper Co. Ltd. (SHA: 600362) soared to records yesterday (Monday), bolstered...
By Keith Fitz-Gerald Contributing Editor The National Association of Business Economists, or NABE, says its newest study shows that credit risk has...
By Jason Simpkins Staff Writer Soybeans - a key crop used in the creation of certain Biofuels - is nearing record price levels, and may actually hit...
By Jason Simpkins Staff Writer Sales of new homes and U.S. factory orders for durable goods both picked up in July, a development that could enable...
From Staff Reports U.S. stocks finished out their calmest week in a month on Friday with a solid gain: The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared 142.99...
By Jason Simpkins Staff Writer The state-run Bank of China and its Hong Kong subsidiary last week stunned investors by revealing a combined $11.25...
From Staff Reports Search-engine giant Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) is believed to be only weeks away from the worldwide launch of its “Google...
By Martin Hutchinson Director of Global Investing Research Brazil President Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva announced this week that...
By Mike Caggeso Staff Writer Countrywide Financial Corp. CEO Angelo Mozilo said yesterday (Thursday) that the housing market isn’t improving and...
By Jason Simpkins Staff Writer Germany is on its way to a surplus for the first time in 18 years, the Financial Times reported – a bit of a...
From Staff Reports This year’s World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Report warns that brand-new – and still-emerging – infectious...
From Staff Reports The level of outstanding commercial paper underwent its biggest weekly drop in at least seven years in the period that ended...
From Staff Reports Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton Ltd. (NYSE:BHP), which on Wednesday reported a $13.42 billion fiscal 2007 profit, said...
By Keith Fitz-Gerald Contributing Editor As a tri-athlete who has competed at the international level, I know what it takes to get ready both...
By Mike Caggeso Staff Writer Dubai's extended its state-funded global reach a bit further yesterday (Wednesday) when its Dubai World investment arm...
From Staff Reports Think inflation is through the roof in the United States? Let’s be thankful we’re not in Zimbabwe, where the...
From Staff Reports The Anglo-Australian BHP Billiton Ltd. (NYSE:BHP), the world’s largest mining company, reported its fiscal 2007 net profit...
From Staff Reports Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (NYSE: LEH) yesterday (Wednesday) announced that it is shutting down its subprime-mortgage unit, BNC...
From Staff Reports The European Central Bank indicated it may still raise interest rates in September and announced another three month loan –...