Jitters, disappointing data get the best of Wall Street Anxiety reappeared on Wall Street this week, leaving markets largely lower and sending investors into short-term government bonds and the U.S. dollar, which...

Ferrero and Hershey ponder Cadbury bid IN weighing a potential bid for Cadbury, Ferrero is throwing itself into a high-profile, international corporate battle, switching gears from the insular style...

Crisis grips Japan’s economy as deflation returns Japan’s fledgling recovery is under threat from falling prices, the government said yesterday, as it conceded that deflation had returned to the world’s...

Polishing up Google’s Chrome out to rival Windows THIS time next year, disk drives will be a thing of the past; instead, computer users will be pulling in emails, documents, music and photos from the web, and...

Chinese firm to take 19pc stake PGG Wrightson’s $180.7 million capital raising will see upstart Chinese firm Agria Corp take over the top cornerstone position with a 19 per cent stake,...

Sony bets on online content to revive sales TOKYO—As Sony Corp. scrambles to reassert its technological relevance, Chief Executive Howard Stringer is betting on a strategy for the electronics giant that...

All I want to know is... how big is my bonus? DURING my 12-year career in the City as a high-ranking stockbroker, there was only one concern that ever entered my twisted brain: just how big was my bonus...

Global window of opportunity is quickly closing Let’s face it, Canada’s major banks are too innately conservative to ever become truly global players. After all, if there was ever an opportunity to wield...

Shark-bitten builder bounces back WEST Australian boat-builder Austal Ships is close to breaking the hoodoo of its financially disastrous relationship with golfer Greg Norman that caused it to...

A warning from Chocolate Avenue to the 46,000 Cadbury workers It calls itself the sweetest place in America. But the home town of Hershey’s, the chocolate maker, has a lingering hint of bitterness in the air after...

Glitch causes widespread US air-travel delays ATLANTA (AP) – Air travelers around the United States scrambled to revise their plans Thursday after an FAA computer glitch caused widespread cancellations and...

The state of consumption Atailgate party at a National Football League game is both a revelation and a reaffirmation, a uniquely American experience that helps a visitor to understand...

Trendy now, but not by accident Mark Milibrand is a rare breed among District home buyers. Before buying a two-bedroom condo in a renovated Victorian rowhouse in Logan Circle at the end of...

Capitalism’s flag-bearer Q Does it strike you as a bit odd that you’re promoting capitalism in a country that’s considered by many around the globe to be a bastion of free enterprise?...

Foreign buyers snapping up ‘too dear’ London homes Nearly 5500 new flats and h o u s e s we r e s o l d in London between January and September. Guess who bought 1500 of them: overseas buyers. Guess how many of...