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Bank of England Governor Mervyn King has 10 days left to make up his mind on whether he can risk halting stimulus for an economy […]

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Unions at American Airlines plan to support a potential takeover offer by rival US Airways, according to two people familiar with the situation.
The unions believe […]

When Don Davis first heard about the 25,000 cases of organic Italian wheat vodka sitting in a Lincoln County warehouse, he wasn’t planning to launch […]

The 3.1 million "green jobs" the government reported last week was a large number — it’s nearly five times the number of people that […]

U.S. stocks are closing the day mixed, a mundane ending to an electrifying week.
The Dow Jones industrial average and the Nasdaq composite index both ended […]

The weak response to India’s sale of a 5 percent stake in state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp. gives New Delhi little relief as it […]

Markets clawed back lost ground Tuesday on hopes that Greece is heading toward a conclusion of debt-reduction talks with private creditors and that it may […]

Holland Construction Services Inc., based in Swansea, was selected as the construction manager for a 73,000-square-foot building addition at Southwestern Illinois College’s Belleville campus.
The addition […]

Italy’s borrowing costs eased in a bond auction Monday, but worries about the country’s ability to manage its debt and enforce spending cuts persisted as […]

Standard & Poor’s is warning it may downgrade the European bailout fund’s AAA long-term credit rating.
The move announced Tuesday follows S&P’s notice on Monday that […]