Rising overseas demand has created buoyant conditions for manufacturers in the UK, a report suggests. The Engineering Employers Federation (EEF) predicted manufacturing output would increase by 3.7% this year and ...
PARIS — In the digital world, the most effective advertising is not always advertising in the traditional sense. Instead of buying ad space or time on a Web site, many ...
PARIS — Heavy metal fans revel in their image as outcasts. For the music industry, however, followers of the British metal band Iron Maiden have become model citizens. As music ...
FRANKFURT — Even as Europe’s sovereign debt crisis intensified early this year, banks continued to load up on debt from Greece and other countries with the most acute fiscal problems, ...
Interest in M.B.A. programs revealed a mixed picture in 2010, according to a survey of international business programs by the Graduate Management Admission Council, which administers the GMAT entrance exam. ...
LONDON — It’s tailgating season, when alumni gather in stadium parking lots to enjoy impromptu picnics, cheer on the college team — and fend off requests for donations. But try ...
LATE last month, tens of thousands of runners who are registered for this year’s New York City Marathon got an e-mail from Mary Wittenberg, the president and chief executive of ...
INVESTORS have been fleeing stock funds in droves, moving their money into bond portfolios, the headlines tell us. But while there is some truth in these reports, they don’t provide ...
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Spanish trains whisk passengers from Madrid to Barcelona in little more than two and one-half hours. Japan has bullet trains. China is building a vast network of ...
The British company behind the Hawk-Eye ball-tracking technology is to be put up for sale. Its owners, who include Mark Getty, a member of the wealthy US business dynasty, want ...
The European Union has reached agreement on reforms to financial supervision, officials have said. EU states and the European Commission agreed to create agencies that from next year are to ...
The US economy shed another 54,000 jobs in August, the third month in a row that jobs have been lost, Labor Department figures have shown. As a result of the ...
The BP well which spilled 206m gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico poses no further risk to the environment, says the US official leading the clean-up. Adm Thad ...
As the United States continues its battle with high unemployment, policy makers are confronting a troubling question: What if they’ve been taking the wrong approach to fixing the ailing job ...
In the case of Britain, the financial mania of 1720 centered on the South Sea Company, which proposed to open the South Seas (and all the great wealth therein) to ...
