by Kira Boyd & Empriss Campbell | Aug 3, 2015 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – African-American women are creating their own businesses at a higher rate than other female entrepreneurs in the U.S., according to a recent report. The 2015 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report, commissioned by American Express OPEN, found the number...
by Lucy Ren | Jul 30, 2015 | Business & Tech, Topics
Experts project robust growth in trading volumes on Nasdaq OMX Group’s new energy derivatives exchange, despite oil prices’ recent moves into bear market territory. After U.S. oil prices met the common definition of a bear market last week — by falling more than 20%...
by Phoebe Tollefson | Jul 29, 2015 | Business & Tech, Environment
WASHINGTON– A new government rule that promises to do more to protect streams near coal mining operations entered a critical stage this week, with coal industry lobbyists and environmentalists already lining up for battle. A 60-day comment period opened Monday....
by Kulwant Saluja | Jul 29, 2015 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — James Galbraith, a University of Texas economist who was part of a secret working group coordinated by Greece’s former minister of finance, said Tuesday that there was nothing questionable about the group’s motives for looking at ramifications of a...
by Siyao Long | Jul 28, 2015 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — As some nations eagerly pursue nuclear energy, America is going slow. While China is building 24 new reactors, the United States has only five nuclear power plants under construction – Watts Bar 2 in Tennessee, Vogtle 3 and 4 in Georgia and V.C....
by Kulwant Saluja | Jul 28, 2015 | Business & Tech, Politics
WASHINGTON — Democratic House members argued Thursday that passage of Trans-Pacific Partnership would open the door to currency manipulation from countries participating in the TPP, resulting in the loss of millions of American jobs. “Countries that undervalue...
