Angelo Young

The price of platinum, the precious metal used to make anti-pollution equipment for vehicles, is in a slump due to the global economic downturn, but it's especially bad in Europe where platinum demand is greatest. Nevertheless, analysts are bullish, believing the price will rise in the latter half of the year and into the next.

The latest shootout will likely spur another national debate on gun laws, but according to Gallup, public opinion is pretty much on the side of liberal gun ownership laws -- and that doesn't mean liberal in the political, tree-hugging sense of the word.

Your burger won't get cheaper any time soon, and it's not just because of the current Midwest drought. (You'll feel that next year.)

After activist investor Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management said he expects to make 15 to 20 times his investment in beleaguered Plano, Texas-based retail giant J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE:JCP), stock in the company hit a ten day high.

In an echo from the final weeks of Saddam Hussein's reign in Iraq in 2003, Syrian President Bashar al Assad has reportedly retreated to his tribal homeland as rebels advance on Damascus.

The biggest drought the U.S. has seen since 1988 just became the biggest drought since 1956 as the dry and the heat spread to 55 percent of the Lower 48.

An animal rights campaign underscores the power activists have to pressure companies to stop using inhumane suppliers.

A bomb destroyed 22 of NATO's oil-tanker trucks parked alongside a road in northern Samangan province overnight. The fire from the massive explosion was still burning Wednesday morning.

On Wednesday, opposition leader Shaul Mofaz called to end the polticial circus over whether, or when, ultra-Orthodox and Arab Israelis must serve in the military.

It seems as though the world if retail is hitting some mid-year skids, leaving market watchers wondering if they already need to write of the second-most important sales season of the year: Back to school.

Germany's Federal Constitutional Court said Monday it will decide on an injunction barring the implementation of the European Stability Mechanism on Sept. 12.

China weighed in on Monday with a heavy dose of sarcasm regarding the recent controversy over U.S. Olympics team blazers, suggesting that perhaps members of congress should be banned from wearing anything or using any product that has been manufactured abroad.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's complain database has been live for six weeks, Here's who ranks best and worst among the big credit card issuers.

Chicco-brand Polly folding baby high chairs sold by the U.S. subsidiary of Italy's Artsana SpA pose laceration risks from exposed pegs on the back of the chair.

China's report Friday that its economic activity grew in the second quarter much as expected reinforced expectations that the growth rate in the world's second-biggest economy will increase later this year.

Your corn flakes are going to be more expensive in six to 12 months' time. As will your ketchup, carbonated drinks, sweets, hamburgers, chicken and many other things in the corn-heavy American diet.

London's Olympic Organizing Committee is facing public scrutiny after the U.S.-based private security firm it hired to patrol the Summer Olympics that begins in two weeks failed to acquire and train enough personnel.

Australian online electronics retailer Kogan says Microsoft Corporation (NYSE: MSFT) rectified an issue that knocked the company's home page off the Seattle-based software giant's Bing search engine.

Japanese advertising company Dentsu Inc. (Tokyo: 4324) is buying the British firm Aegis Group Plc (AGS) for £3.16 billion ($4.9 billion) in a deal that will give Aegis stakeholders $3.73 per share.

Peri & Sons Farms has agreed to pay a record $2.3 million in back wages to 1,365 foreign seasonal agricultural laborers who had worked for the Yerington, Nev.-based onion grower under the H-2A visa program.

Aircraft maker Airbus SAS has scrapped its goal of selling 30 A380 superjumbo jets this year as airline appetites for jumbo jetliners isn't quite as big as the European aerospace giant had expected.

Economic slowdown in the U.S., China and emerging markets, a rise in political tensions in the Middle East and Europe's debt crisis means oil consumption will not be rebounding anytime soon, according to the world's largest oil cartel.

The U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Agriculture is scheduled Wednesday to start the final stage of producing its version of the farm bill, which will likely be delayed. An examination of both the House and Senate versions offer a glimpse into the priorities of U.S. agro policy through 2017.

Did the world's largest software company remove the home page of an Australian online retailer from the results of its internet search engines in retaliation for the company's cheeky campaign to get people to use a better browser? Microsoft says no.

Camden, N.J.-based Campbell Soup Company (NYSE:CPB) announced Monday it was acquiring food and beverage company Bolthouse Farms Inc. for $1.55 billion from a fund managed by private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC.

If you are reading this online, then the computer you're using is not infected with the DNS Changer Malware. However, those who haven't bothered to remove the malicious software lost internet access at 12:01 a.m. Monday.

What do you do with an abandoned Wal-Mart in the middle of a sea of concrete? Turn it into an award-winning library and community center, of course.

Mexican election officials said Wednesday they are recounting votes from more than half of the polling booths from Sunday's presidential, congressional and gubernatorial elections.

Not only will hundreds of thousands of people in the eastern portion of the United States be enjoying (or not) their Independence Day holiday without power, many of them will also be sweating it out through the weekend.