Despite emergency stimulus measures, small business lending continues to fall. In the just-ended quarter, the Small Business Administration's flagship program backed 30% fewer loans than it did a year ago, and 55% fewer loans than it did in 2007, before the recession set in.
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon made a lightning visit to Baghdad on Thursday with a delegation of officials and business leaders seeking to raise France's profile in Iraq.
A U.S. aid agency and Western Union Co. are teaming up to offer a cash boost to sub-Saharan Africans who live in the U.S. but have business plans back home.
As Congress prepares to do battle over health reform, a parallel dispute is shaping up among small-business groups that are staking out opposing positions on a key element of reform proposals: whether Uncle Sam will take on a bigger role in offering insurance coverage or leave the field to the private market.
NEW YORK - The Washington Post asked lobbyists and business leaders to pay $25,000 to attend a dinner discussion with government officials and journalists at the home of its publisher, and then canceled the event after the invitations became public.
CNN will go beyond the hype of becoming a green business to investigate what is driving and motivating these leaders making their products, and their services more environmentally friendly.
The business jet market, which soared in recent years as US companies posted record profits and new foreign buyers raised demand, is now facing a hard landing.
Wells Fargo Co. on Thursday said it will invest $208,000 in the US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation for a national research study about the characteristics and interests of business owners in the six largest Asian American ethnic groups: Chinese, Asian Indian, Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese.
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Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary general, embarks on a high-risk trip to the country where he will press the military junta to release political prisoners and prepare for credible elections next year
Beijing moves towards reducing reliance on the US dollar with new rules that will enable importers and exporters to settle their payments to select Chinese companies in renminbi
Perhaps transparency measures are having an effect in moderating trade restrictions. But letting in sunlight on protectionism is not enough to kill it outright
The decision to issue interest-bearing notes opens the way for China, Brazil and Russia to lend the institution large sums of money, thus retaining their leverage in governance talks
Governments around the world have continued to push up trade barriers in spite of high-profile pledges at the G20 summit to resist protectionism, according to a World Trade Organisation report
The global downturn appeared close to a bottom after manufacturing figures from across the world suggested the worldwide recession was running out of steam in all big economies
Travellers in the US, UK and Germany could soon find themselves donating to the fight against Aids and malaria when they buy an airline ticket over the internet under a scheme to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for healthcare in poor countries
The Financial Action Task Force highlights cases that showed how big money in the sport makes it an attractive money-laundering opportunity for criminals
Chinas manufacturing and business-activity indices both finished in positive territory in June, confirming that the worlds third-largest economy is continuing to expand amid a mixed picture elsewhere in Asia
The European Food Safety Authority pushes aside doubts raised by several European Union member states and concludes that MON810 is as safe as traditional corn crops
