World Economic

WASHINGTON – The U.S. economy is moving in reverse faster than the government can measure.
The contraction for the fourth quarter of 2008 had […]

Royal Bank of Scotland reported the biggest loss in British history on Thursday and said the government’s stake could rise as high as 95 […]

JEFFERSON CITY — The new buzzword in the debate over a $6 billion Missouri nuclear plant is "certainty."
AmerenUE says it wants to give […]

Taiwan’s export orders dropped by a record in January, threatening to stoke unemployment and deepen the island’s recession.
Orders fell 41.67 percent from a […]

Government bond prices rallied Friday, as shell-shocked investors retreated from Wall Street.
Stocks were getting hammered on Friday amid worries about the health of the […]

General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC raced to finish restructuring plans for the U.S. government that will outline aggressive cost-cutting, but are expected to […]

Will Toll Brothers Inc. get through the housing and economic mess OK? What about its stock?
As one of the nation’s leading builders of […]

Microsoft Corp announced plans Thursday to open its own chain of branded stores as it looks to catch up with rival Apple Inc’s successful […]

This much we know — the Obama administration wants to set aside between $50 billion and $100 billion to address the foreclosure crisis.
But how […]

Kellogg Co., the world’s largest cereal maker, said it will not extend the endorsement contract of Olympic gold medallist Michael Phelps after a photo […]