By Ruth Mantell, MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Productivity rose in the first quarter as US firms slashed their workforce, outpacing the drop in output, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
By Nick Godt NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — US stocks lost some steam in morning trade Wednesday, and the Nasdaq Composite turned negative, with shares of Cisco leading broad declines among technology shares. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU: , , ) was up 6 points, or 0.1%, at 8,421, well off …
By Peter A. McKay and Geoffrey Rogow US stocks traded lower Tuesday afternoon as upcoming reports on jobs and bank capital levels weighed on sentiment and offset a string of improving economic reports in recent sessions. Recently, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 29 points to 8397 after …
By Ian Talley WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The US Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday proposed a new alternative-fuel standard that will likely prohibit some corn- ethanol production processes based on their greenhouse-gas emissions and encourage other …
By Lynn Thomasson May 4 (Bloomberg) — US stocks rose, erasing the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index’s 2009 loss, after home sales beat estimates and manufacturing in China increased for the first time in nine months, boosting confidence the global recession …
By Bob Willis and Courtney Schlisserman May 1 (Bloomberg) — Measures of US manufacturing and consumer confidence last month unexpectedly jumped to their highest levels since the credit crisis intensified in September, indicating the economy is on the …
By David Ehrlich – Earth2Tech The US wind power industry has huge potential, both onshore and off, but it’s clearly looking for a hand from the government to get through these tough times.
By Alan Ohnsman and Keith Naughton May 2 (Bloomberg) — Honda Motor Co. and Hyundai Motor Co.’s April US sales fell at a slower rate than the industry, as Asian carmakers added market share again.
By Peter A. McKay and Kejal Vyas US stocks traded lower Friday as investors hoped for an economic recovery despite an April for US car sales that one BMW executive described as “more of a dust bowl than a spring garden.
By William L. Watts NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–US stock index futures edged higher Friday, pointing to modest gains for the start of May trading after Wall Street finished April with one of its strongest monthly boosts in years.