IBT Staff Reporter

U.S. stocks slid more than 1 percent on Tuesday after an unexpectedly large drop in inventories at wholesalers raised doubts about an economic recovery and bank shares skidded after a prominent analyst warned that fundamentals for the industry have not improved.

As online search becomes more competitive and innovate, Google is upping the ante by developing new technology which will speed up indexing new search results and create a larger index.

General Motors Chief Executive Officer Fritz Henderon announced today that the Chevrolet Volt extended range electric car has been given an official EPA rating of more than 230 Miles Per Gallon . Clean Energy Fuels Corp. a provider of natural gas, reported a larger than expected loss of $6.4 million or 13 cents a share.

An experimental drug developed by scientists in China appears to be effective in killing roundworms, a parasite that lurks in the intestines and which affects nearly two billion people in tropical countries.

Want to take health care reform into your own hands? Don't smoke, lose weight, get exercise, and stick to a good diet, says a new study.

Patients with potentially deadly drug-resistant bacteria that they pick up in the hospital often carry the infection to home health care settings after hospital discharge, and transmission occurs in about one fifth of household contacts, according to a report published today.

A woman with a mother or sister with breast cancer should

Cancer survivors who got radiation treatments as children have nearly twice the risk of developing diabetes as adults, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

As online search becomes more competitive and innovate, Google is upping the ante by developing new technology which will speed up indexing new search results and create a larger index.

Liberal religious groups announced on Monday they are teaming up with President Barack Obama in a national campaign to counter the surprisingly vehement

Fifty million women in Asia are at risk of being infected with HIV because of the risky sexual behavior of their husbands or boyfriends, leading health experts said in a report on Tuesday.

During the second-quarter earnings call of CKX, parent company of

Intel on Tuesday said its X25-M and X-18-M SATA SSD, which was pulled back in shipments recently is now ready to ship on bugs free by updating its firmware.

Stocks fell on Tuesday after data showed an unexpectedly large drop in inventories at wholesalers in June, while an analyst's warning that fundamentals for the banking industry have not improved sent financial sector shares lower.

A Russian woman frustrated at failing to obtain French nationality hurled a ceramic cup at the Mona Lisa but did not damage Leonardo da Vinci's famed portrait, a spokesman for the Louvre Museum said on Tuesday.

Stocks fell on Tuesday after data showed an unexpectedly large drop in inventories at wholesalers in June, while an analyst's warning that fundamentals for the banking industry have not improved sent financial sector shares lower.

Microsoft is offering an interesting program of cashbacks for using their search engine Bing, and the program came just in time before back to school sale buzz starts to kick in.

European private equity firms are keen to start bringing their best-performing portfolio companies to market, encouraged by early successes on the other side of the Atlantic.

Vienna's Schoenbrunn Palace is planned to provide the stage for a high-profile tribute to the

Canadian housing starts fell unexpectedly in July, dropping 4.1 percent from June and breaking a two-month run of gains, largely because of a drop in construction of multifamily dwellings.

Struggling Danish upmarket television and stereo maker Bang & Olufsen (B&O) posted deeper-than-expected losses for the final quarter, but said it was aiming for a break-even result in financial year 2009-10.

U.S. banks, which have cut thousands of jobs during the two-year-old financial crisis, are suddenly racing to fill empty seats to make the most of soaring stock markets and narrowing credit spreads.

Drugmaker Paladin Labs Inc posted a higher profit in the second quarter, helped by a one-time gain.

The author is unknown, but I read a story recently about Charles Plumb. Plumb was a US Navy Academy graduate and jet fighter pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air-missile.

Cumberland Pharmaceuticals Inc priced its initial public offering below the estimate range on Monday, but broke a nearly two-year drought for IPOs in the pharmaceutical sector.

Indian Sterlite Industries, a subsidiary of London-listed Vedanta Resources, on Tuesday confirmed an improved offer for the operating assets of bankrupt U.S. copper miner Asarco LLC.

Exchange watchdogs made dozens of referrals to U.S. securities regulators about the once prominent hedge fund Pequot Capital Management, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission said in a letter revealed on Monday.

Dutch private bank Van Lanschot would be a buyer of private banking assets if the European Commission forces banks that took state aid to sell them, Chief Executive Floris Deckers said on Tuesday.

Oil prices fell by more than $1 below $70 a barrel on Tuesday, giving up earlier gains as doubts resurfaced over the pace of economic recovery and any rise in fuel demand.