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 — Exxon said Thursday that it will boost spending this year on new and existing projects even though global energy demand is still restrained. The world's largest publicly traded...

WASHINGTON — A federal regulator says Wall Street banks are seeking exemptions to proposed new rules for financial derivatives that could shield more than half the trades in the complex...

Authorities discovered a note and documents that relate to former auto dealer Denny Hecker when his former in-law fatally shot himself last week in his car, according to newly unsealed court papers. ...

NEW YORK - Without a TV show to do every night, Conan O'Brien is taking his act on the road.The former host of "The Tonight Show" announced a 30-city theater tour on Thursday. Sidekick Andy Richter...

WASHINGTON - The government may require automakers to include brake systems that can override the gas pedal in response to Toyota's massive recalls, auto safety officials told Congress on Thursday. ...

TORONTO--(Marketwire - March 11, 2010) - The Bedford Report is pleased to announce that its latest Market Update analyzing the Technology Sector has been released. Technology is such an integral part...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Canadian stocks searched for direction Thursday as investors in the commodity-heavy market weren't sure how to assess inflation data out of China. The S&P/TSX...

One of the report's authors claimed that the Tobin tax was designed to punish Wall Street but would shoot main-street in the foot. Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP America's leading business advocacy...

Liberia, which lost a £13m court case against two vulture funds late last year. Photograph: Jerome Delay/AP Legislation to protect some of the world's poorest countries from being sued by...

A former partner at the Queen's stockbrokers was jailed for 21 months today after being convicted of insider dealing.Malcolm Calvert, who retired from the investment bank Cazenove 10 years ago, used...

A controversial amendment to the digital economy bill that could block sites such as YouTube is copied almost word-for-word from a draft written by the BPI, which lobbies on behalf of the...

Exxon Mobil revealed its capital expenditures plans for 2010. In an analyst meeting, the oil giant said it will spend about $27 billion in 2010 on capital projects, $1 billion more than it spent in...

See Search Box lower down this column for searches of Finfacts news pages. Where there may be the odd special character missing from an older page, it's a problem that developed when...

March 11 (Bloomberg) -- Elliott Associates LP, the fund manager that made an unsolicited $2 billion offer for Novell Inc., would sell the NetWare networking-software unit if its bid succeeds, a...

March 11 (Bloomberg) -- Household wealth in the U.S. grew in the fourth quarter at a slower pace, limited by a drop in home values that indicates the recovery in consumer spending will take time to...

Just in time for the Vanity Fair editors to be banging their foreheads on the table for putting Michael Douglas on this month's cover comes news that Oliver Stone's "Wall Street 2: Money Never...

Willbros Group Inc. fell nearly 12 percent to $13.33 per share in early trading Thursday after the company released its 2009 earnings and announced the acquisition of an electricity and natural gas...

The Federal Reserve says household net worth rose 1.3 percent in the fourth quarter to $54.2 trillion. It marked the third straight quarter of gains. Net worth had risen 4.5 percent in the second...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama sought Thursday to put some detail behind his lofty drive to double U.S. exports over the next five years, calling the effort imperative to putting people back to...

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...

President Barack Obama has urged China to change its currency strategy, a move that would effectively raise the value of the yuan and benefit US exporters.He said China should help re-balance global...

Chancellor Alistair Darling has warned people not to expect a "giveaway" when the government's Budget is announced later this month.Speaking to the BBC, Mr Darling said that the Budget...

A free national financial advice service is being launched by the government.Called Moneymadeclear, it offers a telephone helpline, website and face-to-face sessions with independent financial...

MSN Video Player was piloted in August last year, with a much smaller library of programmes and has since increased its content significantly. Endemol, creators of Big Brother, RDF Rights and Shed...

WALL Street stocks fell overnight after official data showed higher-than-expected initial weekly jobless insurance claims and a slower pace of imports, suggesting slower economic...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Caterpillar said Thursday it will study whether it makes sense to move some of its heavy equipment manufacturing to the United States from Japan to free up capacity at...

NEW YORK -- U.S. households increased their holdings of Treasury securities to the highest level in at least two years, according to data released by the Federal Reserve on Thursday. Households held...

TDBFG ) announced today that its Chief Economist, Don Drummond, will retire at the end of June, 2010. Craig Alexander, the current Deputy Chief Economist, will succeed Mr. Drummond as Chief...

XTO ) in the second quarter. Speaking to analysts in the company's annual meeting in New York, Chief Tillerson said he believes that while the value of the acquisition to Exxon Mobil and its...

Technology stocks put in a mixed performance Thursday as the sector got caught up in the broader market's marginal losses fueled by rising prices and China and ever-present concerns about the U.S....

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Americans got richer for a third straight quarter at the end of 2009, a favorable trend for an economic recovery that could use some more fuel. A quarterly Federal Reserve...