If the U.S. presidential election was held today, President Barack Obama could easily lose. Fortunately for Obama -- and, by extension, for the Democratic Party -- the election is not today: it's 7 months from now.
For many women wearing heels is just another painful thing they do for beauty. However, for a small few, the pain of wearing high heels is compounded by the pain of plastic surgery to fit into them.
Mexican immigration to the U.S., considered the largest wave of immigration in history from a single country to the states, has dropped sharply and may have reversed due to the weak U.S. jobs market, stricter regulation on border crossing and rising deportations.
SmartGrid GB includes British Telecom, General Electric, IBM and Scottish Power, Siemens and Toshiba.
Allegations that Wal-Mart Stores Inc stymied an internal investigation into extensive bribery at its Mexican subsidiary are likely to lead to years of regulatory scrutiny and could eventually cost some executives their jobs.
Steve Jobs may have passed away last year, but his vision for MacBook Pro lives on and stretches far beyond 2012, a leaked report would suggest.
Many U.S. manufacturing firms that run Chinese plants are considering bringing those operations back home because -- in many cases -- it makes more economic sense to do so than to keep them abroad, according to a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) survey of business executives released on Friday.
Apple is to hire 500 people in Ireland in the latest boost to the indebted euro zone country's multinational sector, one of the few bright spots in a struggling economy.
American Airlines plans to eliminate another 1,200 jobs as part of its plan to cut costs in bankruptcy, the company said in a letter to employees on Wednesday.
Swedish retailer IKEA unveiled its interpetation of an integrated television on Monday, called the UPPLEVA, which means to experience. Even though Apple's late founder Steve Jobs had envisioned such a TV for his own company, it looks like IKEA will be the first to ship such an experience.
First Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) announced Tuesday it will cut nearly a third of its workforce and shutter an overseas factory as a market flush with solar panels cuts into revenue.
As U.S. taxpayers complete their income tax forms, few had as good a 2011 as new Apple CEO Tim Cook, whose compensation now is valued above $600 million.
Swiss bank Credit Suisse could announce the loss of up to 5,000 jobs in its investment banking business at its forthcoming first-quarter results, a Swiss newspaper reported on Sunday.
A preliminary survey of consumer confidence for April shows the lackluster job creation seen in March is playing into people's pessimism more than economists had expected. But a recent, tiny, decline in gasoline prices, following a dizzying climb at the beginning of the year, is at least making consumers feel better about inflation and hence, expectations for the future.
The US-based consultancy CareerCast has listed the ten best jobs of 2012 on the basis work environment offered, stress, income levels, physical demands and job outlook.
The Fed is also well aware that employment had peaked in each of the past two springs before resuming growth late in the year.
Nearly a decade ago, Eliot Spitzer, then the New York attorney general, had to force major Wall Street firms to build a Chinese wall between research and investment banking. Now, the same banks are fretting over a breach in that wall.
The number of unemployed American workers for every job opening fell in February to its lowest since late 2008, pointing to ongoing healing in the still-weak labor market.
The Dow and the S&P 500 extended losses to a fourth day on Monday, as investors took their cues from last week's disappointing jobs report, which raised fresh concerns about the U.S. economy's recovery.
The Dow and the S&P 500 extended losses to a fourth day on Monday, as investors took their cues from last week's disappointing jobs report, which raised new concerns about the U.S. economy's recovery.
Stocks fell on Monday but pulled off their lows by mid-session, suggesting the market is shrugging off the weaker-than-expected jobs data that pushed major indexes down more than 1 percent earlier.
Japan's Sony Corp is cutting 10,000 jobs, about 6 percent of its global workforce, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Monday, as new CEO Kazuo Hirai looks to steer the electronics and entertainment giant back to profit after four years in the red.
