WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. Treasury debt with zero and negative yields is finding buyers -- a tangible measure of the current level of discomfort with corporate equity stocks.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- The National Credit Union Administration said it would pump money into U.S. credit unions to offset an imbalance caused by aid given to commercial banks.
BEIJING, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- China reported Wednesday its producer price index fell sharply in November, slowing to an annual rate of 2 percent, compared to 6.6 percent in October.
BEIJING, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- China, feeling the pinch of declining air traffic, has told its airlines to suspend jetliner orders from foreign makers, the government said.
BEIJING, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- China's top economic planning agency says the country's $586 billion economic stimulus package will mostly go to helping ordinary people.
MIAMI, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said his country's oil-based economy could be in trouble as world oil demand decreases and a global financial crisis looms.
MOSCOW, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Gazprom Neft, the oil division of Russian monopoly Gazprom, expects 2009 to be a good year for foreign investments in Russia's energy sector, officials said.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Boeing announced Friday the successful interception of a long-range ballistic missile target in what it described as "the most challenging test to date of the United States' only long-range ballistic missile defense system."
NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices fell Tuesday on the New York Mercantile Exchange after the U.S. Department of Energy predicted a $51.17 per barrel average for 2009.
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LEUVEN, Belgium, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Belgian brewing giant A-B InBev announced it was cutting 1,400 U.S. salaried positions three weeks after it took over U.S. brewing icon Anheuser-Busch.
ATLANTA, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Pilots from U.S. airlines Delta and Northwest now occupy a unified seniority list under an arbitrator's formula, an airline spokesman said.
COSTA MESA, Calif., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. companies Irvine Sensors Corp. and Applied Research Associates say their joint aerial sensor project has successfully completed recent live-fire testing.
VILNIUS, Lithuania, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Lithuania Tuesday played host to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko for talks on transporting oil from the Odessa-Brody pipeline to Lithuanian refineries.
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army has contracted Alliant Techsystems to lead a supply team providing ammunition for the Afghan National Security Forces.
BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- The governments of energy-producing states in the Caspian region are moving closer to Europe in its bid to diversify oil and gas corridors, an analysis says.
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Oregon-based Eid Passport Inc. announced the launch of a new identity authentication access management system for securing military and government facilities.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- If President Barack Obama sat down with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad without preconditions, it would hand the Iranian leader an opportunity to practice his own Taqiyyah, strut on the world stage, lecture about the supposed superiority of Iran's Islamic system and assert Iran's claim to leadership of the Muslim world.
ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- In October 2000, during the waning days of the Clinton administration, the U.S. Department of the Navy awarded the biggest information-services contract in the history of the American federal government.
RESTON, Va., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army has contracted STG Inc. to support the Area Processing Center's consolidation of information technology services.
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A Las Vegas Sands Corp. lawyer said the company would appeal a $58.6 million award won by a Hong Kong businessman for help securing a gambling contract.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Pending U.S. home sales dipped slightly in October, falling 0.7 percent, the National Association of Realtors in Washington said Tuesday.
Los Angeles Clippers power forward Blake Griffin (32) reacts after getting beat by the San Antonio Spurs in game 4 of the Western Conference Semifinals at Staples Center in Los Angeles on May 20, 2012. The Spurs won 102-99. UPI /Lori Shepler
