The Associated Press Deflation fears roil Wall Street Houston Chronicle - 43 minutes ago By VIKAS BAJAJ New York Times After gyrating wildly for weeks, the stock market lurched lower on Wednesday, falling to its lowest point in nearly six years, as concern spread that the economy might be beset by a chronic and debilitating decline in ...
Reuters Global stocks hit 5-1/2 year lows Reuters - 1 hour ago By Rafael Nam HONG KONG (Reuters) - A rout in Asia pushed world stocks to their lowest in 5- years on Thursday, while oil fell to below $53 a barrel and safe havens such as the yen gained as economic data indicated a global recession could get even ...
The Associated Press A Son of Detroit Takes on Detroit New York Times - 1 hour ago In Michigan today, unemployment reached a 16-year high as a direct result of the nation’s economic downturn. Mr. Romney’s suggestion that our economy would be best served by a Big Three bankruptcy is a breathtaking assertion of economic Darwinism made ...
AFP Weak Japan exports pile on economic gloom Reuters - 43 minutes ago By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Jason Subler TOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) - Japan's exports to Asia fell in October for the first time since 2002, showing that the fallout from the credit crisis has spread to neighbors such as China and adding momentum to ...
Air France-KLM Second-Quarter Net Falls 49% Percent on Fuel Bloomberg - 41 minutes ago By Andrea Rothman Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Air France-KLM Group, Europe's biggest airline, said fiscal second-quarter profit declined 49 percent because of high fuel costs and after a year-earlier gain from the sale of assets.
Nike, Starbucks, others form clean-energy coalition BICEP USA Today - 2 hours ago By Edward Iwata, USA TODAY With an environmentally-friendly Obama administration coming to power, a new green business coalition - led by Nike, (NKE) Starbucks,(SBUX) Levi Strauss, Sun Microsystems (JAVA) and Timberland (TBL) - is calling for stronger ...
New York Daily News EHarmony Settles Dispute Over Gay Matches Wall Street Journal - 2 hours ago By NATHAN KOPPEL and SHIRA OVIDE A settlement Wednesday between eHarmony Inc. and the New Jersey attorney general requires the online heterosexual dating service to also cater to homosexuals, raising questions about whether other services that target a ...
Jakarta Post CEO Search: Can Anyone Save Yahoo? BusinessWeek - 2 hours ago By Robert D. Hof After a tumultuous 17-month reign as chief executive, Yahoo! (YHOO) co-founder Jerry Yang gave up on Nov. 17. Having failed to reverse Yahoo's stalled growth and plunging profits, he will return to his longtime strategy-setting role as ...