PBS receives about 15 percent of its total funding from the federal government, but that percentage is higher in rural areas where viewer support is lower. On July 17, House Republicans unveiled a spending bill that would eliminate funding for public television and its radio companion, NPR.
Police physically barred people from visiting the site of the crash, including one Wenzhou survivor and two bloggers who were taken into custody for trying to enter the area.
Spain's stock market plunged Monday to its lowest level in nearly 10 years on growing doubts that the nation can avoid defaulting on its massive debts without an external rescue. The government also instituted a three-month ban on short-selling all securities.
The Spanish government's costs hit a record high Monday -- their third consecutive record high in as many days -- as doubts about the country's fiscal stability mounted among international lenders.
China will establish a military garrison on a disputed island in the South China Sea, amid escalating tensions that have strained its ties with the neighboring nations and the U.S.
Karlo Dizon, a Guam Redditor for three years, is competing in a primary race against longtime Guam Delegate Madeleine Bordallo to be the party's candidate in the general election for Guams' nonvoting delegate seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Should Dizon win, it could be, as one person says, the biggest upset victory in the history of Guam politics.
Investors can monitor five stats to obtain a reading on the U.S. economy’s strength. Currently, these stats show a slowdown in U.S. GDP growth, which is why Congress should do more to create jobs and help increase the economy’s growth rate.
The top after-market Nasdaq gainers Friday were Mission West Properties Inc, FormFactor Inc, Synacor Inc and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. The top after-market Nasdaq losers were Ancestry.com Inc, ARM Holdings Plc, OpenTable Inc and iShares MSCI ACWI Index Fund.
The Reserve Bank of India is expected to ease rates at the forthcoming policy meeting July 31 amid growing concerns about the deteriorating growth prospects of the country's economy.
As U.S. President Barack Obama shifts the focus of his re-election campaign from joblessness to income inequality, unemployment has increased in more than one-half the country's states this year.
U.S. consumer spending will grow at a meager rate of 1.5 percent to 2 percent by the end of this year, Sterne Agee, a U.S. brokerage and investment firm said on Friday in a report.
Two months after the trading fiasco in the initial public offering of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, tech IPOs are soaring again. Palo Alto Networks (Nasdaq: PANW) and Kayak Software (Nasdaq: KYAK) shares soared in their IPOs.
Investors seem to be disregarding the parade better-than-expected profit figures from major financial institutions this earnings season, instead using top-of-the-line revenue and return on equity numbers to guide their investment decisions.
With a manager dead, 90 employees in jail and an entire factory's workforce under investigation for murder, Maruti Suzuki faces a shutdown at a major auto plant that could last several weeks or more and cost it $15 million a day.
The top after-market NYSE gainers Thursday were Gramercy Capital, SunCoke Energy, Calix, Swift Transportation and MGIC Investment. The top after-market NYSE losers were Chipotle Mexican Grill, Freescale Semiconductor, Pep Boys-Manny, Advanced Micro Devices and WESCO International.
President Barack Obama's weekend statement on Indian economic slowdown and recent downgrading of the country's sovereign credit ratings by the global rating agencies has evoked strong criticism from India. The Indian government and a section of authorities have blamed the global rating agencies and foreign investors for misjudging the Indian economy and deliberately trying to downgrade India's image.
U.S. existing home sales unexpectedly fell in June, according to the National Association of Realtors, raising fresh doubts about the housing recovery. Here are five important trends taken from the numbers.
Gold continues to fare better than other asset classes in spite of a downward pressure on prices.
According to the latest figures released Thursday, the murder rate in the UK fell by 14 percent year-on-year to 550 homicides in 2011-12; the lowest it's been since 1983. Violent crime in England and Wales also fell by 7 percent, while robberies declined by 2 percent. Overall crime rates against adults remained at the same as they have been for the last three years.
Mellanox Technologies, Asset Acceptance Capital, Bank of America, Infosys, Credit Suisse Group, Pluristem Therapeutics, Yum! Brands, Deutsche Bank and Perrigo Co are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Thursday.
A financial disparity has emerged between popular health-conscious grocery stores and their more mundane rivals, a gap that's expected to widen as the millenial generation replaces the baby boomers as the dominant consumer consumer force.
The company that developed the first commercially available DVR announced on Tuesday that it is purchasing TRA, Inc., a marketing and analytics company whose products help advertisers know which TV commercials are the most effective based on consumers' shopping habits.
