China trade falls amid weak demand, holiday

GM gets environmental OK for new China plant

General Motors Co. has won approval from environmental authorities in central China for a new $1.1 billion assembly plant, though the company says it has not yet decided on the plan.

Alcatel-Lucent returns to profit in 2011

Telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent said Friday that years of cost-cutting helped it make an annual profit in 2011, its first since its trans-Atlantic merger in 2006.

Greek junior coalition party opposes austerity

The leader of a junior partner in Greece's coalition government says his will not vote for new austerity measures, required for a massive new bailout deal to avoid bankruptcy.

US video game sales fall 34 percent in January

U.S. retail sales of video game hardware, software and accessories fell 34 percent in January from a year earlier to $751 million due to the lack of new game titles, according to market researcher NPD Group.

Federal agency looking at high-frequency traders

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is looking at high-frequency traders to gauge their importance in the markets and consider possible new rules for them.

Money fund assets fall to $2.657 trillion

Total U.S. money market mutual fund assets fell $820 million to $2.657 trillion for the week that ended Wednesday, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.

A look at possible money-market fund rules

The Securities and Exchange Commission is drafting proposals to further strengthen money-market mutual funds, two years after it approved an initial set of new rules in the wake of the financial crisis.

Ill-timed fight erupts over money-market funds

A fight is breaking out between the money-market mutual fund industry and federal regulators. Whatever the outcome, investors will question whether they can continue to rely on money funds as a safe place to keep cash readily accessible.

Treasurys fall on Greek deal, weak bond auction

Demand for Treasurys weakened after Greece moved closer to a deal that would prevent the country from defaulting on its debt.

Figures on government spending and debt

Wheat prices fall on record stockpile forecast

Wheat prices fell Thursday after the government predicted global inventories would reach a record high by summer.

Katrina-Rita suit: Insurer offers $80M to settle

Louisiana's property insurer of last resort has offered to settle a dispute over the slow handling of claims from hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 for up to $80 million.

Got protest? Music mogul Simmons mad over milk

Music mogul Russell Simmons wants New York's governor to pull the plug on milk from cows.

Figures on government spending and debt

World stocks slip as Greek bailout hangs in limbo

World stock markets dropped Friday after Europe's finance ministers demanded more spending cuts from Greece before clearing a euro130 billion ($170 billion) bailout to stave off the country's bankruptcy.

IRS to business owners: Did you file your 1099s?

Business owners will find two new questions on their income tax forms this year:

Kodak to stop making cameras, digital frames

Picture it: Save for a few disposable point-and-shoots, Kodak is exiting the camera business.

Strikes and militants threaten Goodluck Jonathan's economic reforms

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Outlets near dry reservation sold almost 5 million cans of beer in 2010

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Dave Davies writes that he has more evidence — a photo of the Inquirer’s budget for the Tuesday paper — that the management of Philadelphia Media Network has quashed news stories about a potential buyer of the company.

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Why hasn't Howard Schultz brought his coffee giant to the land that inspired it?

Pete Bonds, a 59-year-old Texas rancher, doffed his cowboy hat and stepped to the microphone.

The film tells the true and ongoing story of the Grenada Chocolate Company Ltd., which was founded by Mott Green with the assistance of Doug Browne in 1999.

The elaborate dance with regulators and investors has begun

Believe it. It's real.

That’s a scary parallel indeed, since that late-July spike in selling came just days before one of the more painful two-week periods in the stock market in years. In early August, as you may recall, the U.S.