President Barack Obama knocks Wall Street for being “motivated only by the appetite for quick kills and bloated bonuses.”One result of this mindset is US Treasury Department “pay Cz

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Fears that rising oil prices will strangle the economic recovery and produce a double-dip recession appear overblown.A barrel of oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange recently fetched $78.55, 4.2%

Sales of new houses fell in September, sending many builders’ stocks lower Wednesday. It seems the market wrote checks based on previous good news from the sector that the economy can’t y

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President Barack Obama today will announce grants ranging from $400,000 to $200 million for equipment designed to boost the efficiency of the nation’s electrical transmission grid.These “

Dr. Pangloss, the effervescent optimist in Voltaire’s novel Candide, may have kindred spirits at the National Association for Business Economics.The Washington, DC-based trade group representin

Earnings at Schlumberger (SLB) dropped by 48% during the third quarter as energy prices fell and low demand forced producers to cut back.The world’s largest provider of oil-field services, incl

United Parcel Service (UPS) reported third-quarter earnings per share of $0.55, topping the consensus estimate of $0.52.Revenue, operating profit, and package volume were down, and earnings were boos

The Federal Communications Commission is expected to vote Thursday to draft “net neutrality” rules that would prohibit Internet service providers from slowing or blocking content on their