Fed Extends Emergency Loan Programs Through January

The Federal Reserve extended its emergency lending to Wall Street firms through January after policy makers judged that markets are still too weak to […]

Union Pacific tops forecast

Booming shipments of coal, grain and fertilizer coupled to improved productivity drove Union Pacific Corp.’s second-quarter earnings up 19%, despite the impact of rising […]

Hasbro sues

T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook.
Hasbro Inc., the company that owns the […]

Google gives OSU money for open source

Google Inc. has given Oregon State University's Open Source Lab $300,000.
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), based in Mountain View, Calif., had previously given the lab […]

Spain

Unemployment in Spain, the source of half the euro region's new jobs between 2001 and 2006, rose more than expected in the second quarter […]

Arena Authority to get bond funds

Work on the downtown arena site is expected to hasten in the coming weeks as a result of the completion of a long-awaited financing package.
The […]

East Asia

Asia's developing economies will expand at the slowest pace in five years in 2008 as easing U.S. growth weighs on exports and accelerating inflation […]

Israeli Unemployment May Hold at 10-Year Low: Week Ahead

Israel's unemployment rate may have held close to its lowest level in more than a decade in May as the economy heads for its […]

U.S. Housing Starts Spurred by New York Code Change

U.S. housing starts unexpectedly surged the most in more than two years in June because of a change in New York City's building code […]

FAA mandates better runway safety

The Federal Aviation Administration announced measures Monday to improve runway safety, including the installation at major airports of lights that signal pilots when a […]