MIAMI, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- CompUSA is planning to add nearly 300 devoted Internet connections to each U.S. store location to explain its technology products to its live customers.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The Federal Housing Administration's recent limit increase on reverse mortgages has increased interest in the loans, U.S. bankers said.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Peter Redman started his oil career 50 years ago drilling wells on Iraq's Zubair and Rumaila fields on behalf of British Petroleum, a major stakeholder of the Iraq Petroleum Co., which controlled Iraq's oil until it was kicked out in the 1970s in the nationalization campaign.
MIDLAND, Mich., Dec. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. conglomerate Dow Chemical said Monday it would reduce its staff by 11 percent and shutter 20 facilities as part of a restructuring effort.
CHICAGO, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Chief Executive Officer of Playboy Enterprises Inc. Christie Hefner said she planned to resign her position at the end of January to pursue other interests.
LONDON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Britain's Carphone Warehouse said its deputy chairman David Ross resigned after failing to reveal his stakes in the company helped him secure personal loans.
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TORRANCE, Calif., Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Honda Motor said it is considering a delay in introducing diesel-powered vehicles to the U.S. market due to the relatively high cost of diesel fuel.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. workers employed only part-time,but seeking full time jobs rose in November, as did the unemployment rate, the Labor Department said.
TORONTO, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Housing affordability is on a downturn in Canada, but the situation is not as dire as in the United States, a report by RBC Economics in Toronto said Monday.
PRINCETON, N.J., Dec. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. consumers have begun to open their wallets a bit wider lately, spending on average $124 from Black Friday through Dec. 5, a survey said.
MOSCOW, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The Russian government may be using a 2-year-old mining accident as an excuse to take over the mining company Uralkali, observers said.
BEIJING, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Chinese economic experts met Monday to set next year's course for the economy, which President Hu Jintao says faces challenges in the current global crisis.
CHICAGO, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- President-elect Barack Obama Sunday said he supports demands by laid off workers at a Chicago manufacturing company for severance pay and other benefits.
CHICAGO, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Tribune Co. has engaged bankruptcy advisers in an effort to stave off a potential bankruptcy filing, The New York Times reported Sunday.
CHICAGO, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Laid-off workers at the Republic Windows & Doors factory in Chicago remained camped out there Saturday, refusing to leave without their pay.
JACKSON, Ga., Dec. 6 (UPI) -- First Georgia Community Bank in Jackson, Ga., has been seized by regulators, becoming the 23rd financial institution nationwide to fail this year.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Dec. 6 (UPI) -- A North Carolina judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by a Wachovia shareholder seeking to block the bank's sale to Wells Fargo.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- A flood of lawsuits has been filed seeking to prevent National City Corp. from becoming part of PNC Financial Services Group, court papers show.
BEIJING, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- China's first private airline, OK Air, suspended passenger service earlier than planned Saturday amid financial and management difficulties, a spokesman said.
NEW YORK, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Paul Nawrocki, a former toy company executive who says he is desperate to find work, wears a sandwich board in New York advertising his need for a job.
LONDON, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Vauxhall Motors, a British subsidiary of General Motors, has held secret talks with government officials as it seeks to save thousands of jobs, sources said.
