BP says it has so far spent $8 billion responding to the disastrous oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.
September 3, 2010 7:02 am
Stark differences exist between the oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico and the blast that led to the massive BP spill. Most notably, no one was killed and no crude was gushing into the water, but the distinctions don't end there.
September 3, 2010 6:47 am
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Stock futures traded in a tight range Friday as investors cautiously approached the government's monthly employment report.
September 3, 2010 7:46 am
Goldcorp Inc. said Friday that it has agreed to buy Andean Resources Ltd. for about 3.6 billion Canadian dollars ($3.42 billion) in a deal that would give it access to an Argentinian mining project said to contain a significant amount of gold and
September 3, 2010 8:34 am
A weakened Hurricane Earl howled past North Carolina's Outer Banks before daybreak Friday on its way up the East Coast, flooding parts of the narrow vacation islands and knocking out power but staying farther offshore than feared. There were no
September 3, 2010 8:24 am
Is the global economy out of the woods? Two years after near-meltdown, with the U.S. looking sluggish, equity markets groggy and Europeans fighting a debt crisis, experts gathered in Italy offered a generally gloomy outlook - especially for the
September 3, 2010 8:25 am
Russia's Gazprom on Friday clinched a deal to double supplies from Azerbaijan in a bid to expand its control over gas produced by former Soviet republics.
September 3, 2010 8:29 am
The unemployment rate rose in August for the first time in four months as weak hiring by private employers wasn't enough to keep pace with a large increase in the number of people looking for work.
September 3, 2010 8:33 am
