Turns out the amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico from a broken oil pipeline could be 10 times the amounts we've been hearing. Also this week, Afghan President Hamid Karzai visited Washington, and David Cameron formed a new government in the Un
Prudential PLC is forging ahead with a planned $20.7 billion rights issue to buy Asia's AIA Group, and is likely to publish the terms of the offer within days, people familiar with the matter said.
With the passage of the health care overhaul bill, the president is exuding confidence. Turmoil at the Republican National Committee over the past week, and the release Tuesday of a major new and largely sympathetic book about the president by New Yorker.
<!--paging_filter--> With no one particular breaking news peg, a lot of ink was spilled about Mark Zuckerberg this week. The Wall Street Journal. wrote a feature about him alongside a picture of his smiling mug in the A-section of its paper yesterday. Par
New claims for jobless benefits fell last week, but the number of workers filing first-time claims remains stubbornly high as many employers resist adding jobs in the face of a tepid economic recovery. Pending home sales slipped.
Microsoft is poised to release the near-final Release Candidate (RC) test build of Visual Studio 2010 later this week, according to a mention on February 8 on a Microsoft development blog. The Softies are promising a leaner, meaner development suite, with
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Lots of economic data on tap for next week.
After getting worrisome signs about consumers from bankers' earnings reports, investors will be looking at a broad range of companies this week.
There are five undefeated teams going into Week 6. That's an NFL record, writes Don Banks in this week's Power Rankings. But the biggest rise belongs to those surprising 4-1 Bengals.
