Ford (F) is in discussion with the United Auto Workers (UAW) to add as many as 10,000 jobs in the U.S. negotiations for a new four-year contract, people familiar with the talks said Thursday.
Workers at Freeport-McMoRan's Cerro Verde mine in Peru went on strike for better pay on Thursday, but the company said there was no disruption from the mine that supplies 2 percent of the world's copper.
Research in Motion rebuffed speculation that it was following HP's footsteps in abandoning its poor performing Playbook tablet, but the move highlights its difficulties penetrating Apple's dominant market position.
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Amid a sluggish U.S. economy with inadequate job growth, there has been one unabashed bright spot: home mortgage interest rates, currently about 4.10 percent for a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage, are the lowest in decades. Is now a good time to take the plunge a purchase a home?
Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. said Thursday it plans to spinoff its Yellowjacket Gold Project, located in northwestern British Columbia, to a newly formed unit.
The group that oversees the power grid serving the Western United States has requested potentially sensitive market information as it investigates the Sept. 8 power outage that left 7 million people in the dark in California and Arizona, the California grid operator said on Wednesday.
In the specialized world of insurance, this one takes the cake -- or perhaps the pie -- a new policy called SLICE specifically designed to protect the owners of pizza parlors.
States such as Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana have all enacted legislation banning saggy pants.
Jared Loughner, the suspect in the Arizona shooting that injured Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, should get four more months of psychiatric treatment, a federal judge has ordered.
BP will discuss divesting some of its assets in Europe and North America to Reliance Industries as it seeks to deepen its partnership with India's largest private sector company, the Economic Times reported on Thursday, citing the Brtish group's chief executive.
Debt-strapped Kingfisher Airlines plans to exit its low-cost business in the next four months and focus on the premium model, Chairman Vijay Mallya said, breaking with rival carriers which are mostly betting on the budget space.
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Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Mobile USA has joined Samsung’s side in fighting a lawsuit by Apple to stop the sale Samsung telephones, saying that their fight could hurt carrier business.
Bank of America (BAC.N) Merrill Lynch has recruited three former Wells Fargo advisers and one former Morgan Stanley Smith Barney adviser to join its California, Connecticut and Wyoming offices, the firm said late on Monday.
The U.S. Energy Department finalized loan guarantees for two major solar projects on Wednesday, as the deadline loomed for the government's renewable-energy incentive program.
Gasoline gained 3.5 cents on Wednesday in the Los Angeles market after the U.S. government reported that West Coast stockpiles fell last week, traders said.
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The Obama administration will push back the release of the most ambitious proposal ever for automakers to improve fuel efficiency of their passenger cars, sport utility vehicles and pickups.
Canada's energy regulator said on Wednesday it is looking into a complaint that TransCanada Corp's permit to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline within its own borders has expired, adding the prospect of more delays to a project environmentalists hope to block.
Amazon rolled out its much anticipated Kindle Fire on Wednesday, its first fully fledged tablet computer posing a threat to Apple's iPad empire. But other players may also need to watch out.
Zuckerberg recently got a hunting license and shot and killed a bison for his dinner table.
This isn't rumors or speculation. While Apple is not letting any secrets out, one only has to look as far as its software -- iOS5 -- to understand how it will function.
Resale home prices rose to a record high in July, their eighth consecutive monthly gain, according to report on Wednesday that an analyst said signaled a gradual slowdown in a strong market.
Federal investigators on Tuesday raided the Florida offices of Imperial Holdings Inc , a company that makes lump-sum payments on legal settlements and life insurance policies, the FBI said on Tuesday.
More than 700 Continental and United Continental pilots took to Wall Street on Tuesday to protest slow contract negotiations and misinformation regarding merger integration.
Chelsea Clinton has joined the board of the Internet holding company IAC/InterActive Corp., becoming the youngest director at the firm. She has also launched a Facebook fan page.
Boeing's first delivered 787 Dreamliner has taken flight. The jet, sold to All Nippon Airways, took off from Boeing's manufacturing facility on Tuesday, heading for Japan for use in commercial air travel.
Home prices in the 20-city Case Shiller Index rose for the fourth straight month in July, but the operative phrase remains: let the buyer beware. Demand conditions in most major U.S. cities remains soft, and even though home prices are attractive now, price retrenchments are possible.
The local government in central China's Jiangxi province will tighten curbs on energy-guzzlers by charging higher electricity prices, amid a national drive for energy-saving and energy efficiency in the world's top energy consuming country.
