Economy & Trade

Trafficking babies is good business in China: Infants can be sold to overseas buyers for as much as $22,000, and the authorities don’t seem to mind.

A report released Wednesday shows that the U.S. economy added 110,000 private-sector jobs last month, higher than estimated.

U.S. economic activity no longer appears to be contracting and is showing small improvements in the 12 Federal Reserve Districts.

U.S. stocks rallied Monday, as positive corporate earnings, more progress on European debt talks, and mergers and acquisitions activity sent shares higher.

The holiday shopping season is just around the corner and with it anxiety as to who is going to be laid off and unable to afford a holiday season buying spree, and who is going to be hired, even just temporarily.

U.S. stock markets fell Monday, the first day of the third quarter, as investors were once again spooked by news coming out of the European Union on sovereign debt concerns.

Airline industry insurance providers, after having been hit with airline insurance claims during past years, experienced a relatively calm 2011, with less insurance claims coming through the door.

U.S. stocks were modestly higher on Thursday, as Wall Street was lifted by promising economic data and a key vote passed in Germany to support a stronger euro bailout fund.

Toy retailers are already preparing their sales strategies for the upcoming holiday season, vying for consumers’ dollars early in a weak economy.

In 1933, given bank failures en masse from the 1920s to the early 1930s, the U.S. government created America’s Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).

America’s political and business establishment has to put this country’s competitiveness above petty squabbles and hunker down to serious business, according to the Center for American Progress.

U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday, for the second consecutive day, driven by optimism coming out of Europe.

U.S. stocks dropped last Friday amid fresh worries that Greece may default on its debt, tipping the global economy back to recession.

On Aug. 31, the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) release concerning employment and unemployment in metropolitan areas at the end of July indicated a slight improvement over the same time a year ago.

Sallie Krawcheck, a top executive at Bank of America Corp. and widely known as the most powerful woman on Wall Street, will leave the company.

Don’t even dream of touching Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid when seeking ways to reduce the budget, said over 60 percent of people polled in a 2011 Pew Research Center survey.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) this week upheld tariffs on Chinese tires issued by the United States.

U.S. automobile companies recorded double-digit sales gains in August, a somewhat surprising turn of events given last month’s stock market volatility and depressed consumer confidence.

The unemployment rate in the United States still hovers around 9.1 percent, yet the U.S. federal government still allows companies to bring in foreign workers under its foreign worker programs with the excuse that local talent is not available.

Stocks soared on Tuesday, in its biggest one-day gain in almost two weeks, despite an earthquake that shook much of the East Coast.