Business torrents

Shares of Dow Chemical and Rohm & Haas plunged more than 20% Monday after Kuwait scrapped a joint venture with Dow, potentially upsetting its […]

Canada’s opposition leaders portray themselves as soul-mates of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama. Should they succeed in ousting Prime Minister Stephen Harper next month, Obama […]

The stock market is taking a breather.
The wrenching ups and downs of the past few months have given way to a certain […]

Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said the central bank needs to focus on making funds available to companies since the benchmark interest rate […]

For people with severe, long-term disabilities, there are only a few more banking days left in 2008 to take advantage of up to $4,500 in […]

NEW YORK — Stocks fell Wednesday and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index retreated from a five-week high on concern the Federal Reserve has […]

Europe’s inflation rate fell the most in almost two decades last month as oil prices plunged, giving the European Central Bank more leeway to […]

Investment advisers have a legal responsibility to know their clients.
Only by getting to know their clients can they recommend suitable investments.
In practice, this means that […]

Yahoo Inc. will tell 1,500 employees today they are losing their jobs, a person familiar with the situation said yesterday.
The expected date of the […]

NEW YORK – Dow Chemical Co. said Monday it will slash 5,000 full-time jobs – about 11 per cent of its total workforce – […]