U.S. stock futures are mixed ahead of the long holiday weekend on concerns over the lack of a concrete plan to keep Greece in the European currency union.
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PARIS (AP) -- The head of Germany's central bank says there is no quick fix for Europe's problems, calling appeals for more support from the European Central Bank and plans for investment in infrastructure a distraction from the hard work of reform....
BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union on Friday filed a suit with the World Trade Organization against Argentina, claiming the South American country stifles imports to protect its own industry....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Bank of America Corp. and Barclays Bank PLC are selling their stake in apartment building owner Archstone to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s bankruptcy estate for $1.58 billion....
Steam is rising again from a converted International Paper pulp mill in Franklin in preparation for next month's opening.
Profits at big U.S. companies broke records last year, and so did pay for CEOs. The head of a typical public company made $9.6 million in 2011, according to an analysis by The Associated Press using data from Equilar, an executive pay research firm.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- David Simon of Simon Property received a pay package worth more than $137 million for last year, and the typical CEO took home $9.6 million, according to an analysis by The Associated Press....
In the small world of big CEOs, the perks can be spectacular....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Profits at big U.S. companies broke records last year, and so did pay for CEOs....
Asian stocks struggled for firm footing today as investor nerves were tested by fizzling economic growth in China, but European markets headed higher as traders kept fingers crossed that Greece would avoid financial chaos.
SINGAPORE (AP) -- Khamis Neshbahri earned a salary of 700 Singapore dollars ($550) a month when he began cleaning office buildings 11 years ago. His wages haven't budged since then while his cost of living has continued to climb....
ELKHART, Texas (AP) -- Linda Galayda hauled water and flagged down truck drivers to ask about their hay. She sold calves and young cows and made her son leave their East Texas family ranch for a job in San Antonio....
HONG KONG (AP) -- Shares of a Hong Kong tycoon's property company tumbled Friday after he insisted he was innocent of bribery and money laundering charges filed by Macau prosecutors over a land deal in the Asian gambling hub....
LightSquared creditors press argument on debt
States have spent only about 3 percent of the billions they've received in tobacco taxes and legal settlements over the last decade to fund tobacco prevention programs, making it harder to reduce the death and disease caused by tobacco use, according to a report released Thursday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Morgan Stanley, the lead investment bank in Facebook's troubled initial public offering, will compensate retail investors who overpaid when they bought Facebook's stock in Friday's IPO, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Jobless claims may signal slight job growth
Virginia residents can prepare for the upcoming hurricane season and save money at the same time.
Shipbuilders reached a milestone in the construction of the newest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier on Thursday when they slowly lowered the massive lower bow into place in what will become the USS Gerald R. Ford.
U.S. bank earnings rose in the first three months of the year to the highest level in nearly five years, and the number of troubled banks fell for the fourth straight quarter.
You didn't tell me how MUCH they would take out in taxes.
By 2020, people 60 and older will outnumber schoolchildren in the Richmond region by more than 34,000.
LOCAL EVENTS
Following is a list of building permits issued in the past few months in the Chesterfield and Hanover counties for construction valued at $50,000 or more. The names listed are those of the owner and contractor unless otherwise noted; the project is a single-family dwelling unless otherwise noted.
European leaders insist they want to keep Greece in the eurozone, but are putting off any agreement on how to accomplish that.
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