April 19- Unemployment rates dropped in most U.S. states in March from the year before, including California where joblessness fell to a four-year low, as the recovery picked up in places hit hard by the housing downturn.
MILAN, April 19- In these lean economic times, even supercar makers are reaching down-market- which for Maserati means a price tag below 100,000 euros.
CHICAGO, April 19- Torrential downpours across a broad swath of the U.S. The Army Corps of Engineers is closing locks along a 150- mile stretch of the Mississippi River from roughly Davenport in Iowa to Hannibal, Missouri. The Mississippi and other major rivers are expected to begin cresting Sunday- and likely will run over levies in some areas.
CHICAGO, April 18- Heavy rains and flooding brought havoc to the Chicago area on Thursday, shutting expressways, delaying commuter trains, cancelling flights, flooding basements and closing many suburban schools. The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings lasting into the evening for the entire Chicago area.
CHICAGO, April 18- Heavy rains and flooding brought havoc to the Chicago area on Thursday, shutting major expressways, delaying commuter trains for hours, cancelling flights, flooding basements and closing dozens of suburban schools. The National Weather Service has issued flash flood warnings for the entire Chicago area.
CHICAGO, April 18- Heavy rains and flooding in the Chicago area brought havoc to the morning commute on Thursday, shutting major expressways, delaying commuter trains for hours, cancelling flights and closing dozens of suburban schools.
April 11- Drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co plans to lay off about 1,000 domestic sales representatives, or 30 percent of its U.S. sales force, as it faces new generic competition for its top drugs, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday. Lilly has 38,000 employees worldwide and about 17,000 in the United States.
April 10- AMR Corp's American Airlines, moving to gain more business travelers, on Wednesday said it plans to expand service from Los Angeles by adding flights to nine cities this year.
April 10- AMR Corp's American Airlines on Wednesday said it plans to expand service from Los Angeles, one of its five major U.S. hubs that is an important business and leisure market, by adding flights to nine cities this year. New cities to be served from Los Angeles starting this summer include Pittsburgh; Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis; and Hartford, Connecticut.
April 10- AMR Corp's American Airlines on Wednesday said it plans to expand service from Los Angeles, one of its five major U.S. hubs, by adding flights to seven cities this summer.
Corn edged higher in choppy trade, stabilizing after three straight losing sessions following last week's U.S. Department of Agriculture report, which surprised investors with estimates of big U.S. corn and wheat stockpiles. At the CBOT, front-month May wheat settled up 25-3/ 4 cents at $6.96- 1/ 2 per bushel, its biggest single-day rally since Sept. 28.
*Corn choppy, trying to stabilize after 13 percent plunge. Corn was choppy and trying to stabilize after three straight losing sessions following last week's U.S. Department of Agriculture report, which surprised investors with estimates of big U.S. corn and wheat stockpiles.
*Wheat also up on hope of strong world demand for U.S. supplies. *Corn rises after record loss on bargain-hunting. Corn stabilized after three straight losing sessions following last week's U.S. Department of Agriculture report which surprised investors with estimates of big U.S. corn and wheat stockpiles.
CALGARY, Alberta, April 2- Two high-profile oil spills won't stem the now-record flow of Canadian oil into the United States, despite the frenzy that the spills triggered among friends and foes of the Keystone XL pipeline to the main U.S. refineries.
DETROIT, April 2- Subaru of America is recalling about 200,000 Legacy and Outback sedans and wagons from model years 2005-2009 to check for corroded brake lines.
Florida tops the list of zombie properties with 90,556 vacant homes in foreclosure, according to a foreclosure inventory released on Thursday by RealtyTrac, a real estate information company in Irvine, California. Illinois and California ranked a distant second and third with 31,668 and 28,821 zombie properties respectively on the list.
March 25- The trustee unwinding Peregrine Financial Group is seeking to be paid $3.7 million, the maximum allowed under bankruptcy law for his role in returning some money to former customers of the failed broker.
CHICAGO/ SAN FRANCISCO, March 25- The trustee unwinding Peregrine Financial Group is seeking $3.7 million as payment for his eight months of work to return money to former customers of the failed broker, court documents show.
WASHINGTON, March 24- Eight months before President Barack Obama's health care law goes prime time, a confederation of industry and business groups is ramping up its lobbying apparatus for an 11th- hour assault on the web of new taxes and regulations.