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  • Airbus CEO: Alabama Plant & European Debt  Monday, 2 Jul 2012 | 2:23 PM ET

    Airbus president & CEO Fabrice Bregier, offers insight on his company's plans to build its first U.S. plant in Mobile, Alabama, and weighs in on the state of the global economy.

  • Airbus Announces $600 Million US Plant  Monday, 2 Jul 2012 | 1:09 PM ET

    Airbus is planning to build the A320 plane at its new plant in Mobile, Alabama by 2016, and the plant will also employ 1,000 people. CNBC's Phil LeBeau has the details.

  • U.S. Municipalities That Went Bankrupt Friday, 29 Jun 2012 | 3:33 PM ET
    Year of filing: 2011 Central Falls, the smallest city in the state of Rhode Island, filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy in August 2011. The Central Falls economy began its decline in the 1970s with the departure of textile manufacturers, and between 1997-2000, at . In addition to the declining economy, the city had $80 million in pension obligations and retiree health benefits on its books, many of which were promised to police officers and firefighters. During this time, the city was significantly u

    Click ahead for some of the most notable examples of bankruptcies that hit U.S. towns and counties.

  • Airbus Brings Jobs to America  Thursday, 28 Jun 2012 | 1:45 PM ET

    Sources say the European plane maker is planning to build its first U.S. plant in Mobile, Alabama, reports CNBC's Phil LeBeau.

  • US Aircraft Plant for Airbus: NYT  Wednesday, 27 Jun 2012 | 7:25 PM ET

    Airbus plans to build its first U.S. assembly line in Alabama, Arena Pharmaceutical's new anti-obesity drug is set to hit the market early 2013, and Peter Madoff will tentatively plead guilty, reports, CNBC's Brian Shactman and Seema Mody.

  • American Tax Havens Tuesday, 1 May 2012 | 3:48 PM ET
    Tax season is safely behind us, so it’s time to breathe a sigh of relief. But if you paid more to the IRS than you feel you should have, maybe it’s also time to start thinking about doing things a little differently. Maybe it’s time to think about living in a state where the tax burden is less than it is where you are now.Some states have low property taxes, low gasoline taxes and low sales taxes. Some have low income tax rates, and some expect not one cent of income tax revenue from its residen

    If you paid more taxes than you feel you should have, maybe you should think about living in a state with a lower tax burden. See which states qualify as American tax havens.

  • China Setting Up Shop in America?  Friday, 16 Mar 2012 | 2:49 PM ET

    WSFA's Max Reiss reports China could be setting up shop in the deep South, and debating whether recruiting Chinese factories to the U.S. is a good idea, with Alan Tonelson, U.S. Business and Industry Council, and Donald Straszheim, ISI Group.

  • Ron Paul's Fight to the Finish  Tuesday, 13 Mar 2012 | 8:40 AM ET

    "There are four of us in the race and of course, Romney looks like he's ahead, but he's far from having it won", says Rep. Ron Paul, (R-TX), discussing his hopes for big wins in Alabama and Mississippi today and why he intends to fight on through the GOP primary race.

  • GOP Southern Showdown  Tuesday, 13 Mar 2012 | 6:09 AM ET

    CNBC's John Harwood reports on the tight race today in Mississippi and Alabama's presidential primaries.

  • Race for the GOP Nomination  Monday, 12 Mar 2012 | 8:13 AM ET

    Can Rick Santorum continue to gain momentum in Tuesday's primaries in Alabama and Mississippi? Discussing why he thinks Mitt Romney will win the Republican nomination, with Tim Pawlenty, fmr. Governor, (R-MN).

  • Seven States With Sky-High Insurance Monday, 1 Aug 2011 | 9:49 AM ET
    With forecasters predicting 12 to 18 named storms in 2011, homeowners in the Southern United States may already be looking past the sunny days of summer and bracing for the hurricane season. Insurance providers have already bet on it. Homeowners in certain hurricane prone states are at the mercy of an entirely separate insurance market — the so-called “market of last resort” — created to pick up the slack from private insurers who don't provide coverage for hurricanes — or, for that matter, torn

    See average annual homeowners insurance premiums in these states, as well as average windstorm insurance premiums from the least expensive to the most expensive.

  • Alabama County Near Vote on Record Bankruptcy Filing Thursday, 28 Jul 2011 | 10:10 AM ET

    Leaders in Alabama's most populous county will meet later Thursday to consider filing what would be the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

  • Ala. County Readies for Possible Record Bankruptcy Tuesday, 26 Jul 2011 | 12:53 PM ET

    Alabama's largest county is laying the groundwork for filing what would be the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, over a more than $3 billion debt for its sewer system.