Real-time 24hr global markets news in both audio text formats. Heading into the New York open U.S. equity weakness was mirroring markets in Europe. Home Depot +1% and Sears –7% cut guidance while the U.S...

raising inflationary risks. over the past week. However, the world's biggest economy lost momentum with its months of this year. Euro zone growth is at its best since 2000 and China's economy is expanding at a blistering pace...

BHP Billiton group president of carbon steel materials, Chris Lynch, will retire and leave the company early in the new financial year...

BOONTON -- A cigarette butt tossed in a trash can sparked a blaze that damaged the exterior of a single-family home on Myrtle Avenue on Monday afternoon, authorities said...

STOCK market volatility continued yesterday, with banks particularly hit as worries about the sub-prime lending crisis in the US mortgage market fuelled concerns of wider lending implications for financial institutions...

Charlotte Observer | 04/13/2007 | BofA OK'd for China currency business...

interest rates, we will only end up stopping the spread of micro finance institutions as no one will come forward...