HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP) - Sears Holdings Corp. said Tuesday hefty charges and weak results at its U.S. department stores and Kmart locations drove it to post a much wider-than-expected third-quarter loss, and the retailer withdrew its operating profit outlook due to the severe economic downturn ...
Read more...
Dec 2 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat was banned from politics for five years and his party disbanded on Tuesday, plunging Thailand deeper into crisis, although anti-government protesters said they would end a blockade of Bangkok's airports. Here is a timeline of the recent political ...
Read more...
Chicago/London: US President-elect Barack Obama said India had every right to go after terrorists to protect itself like any sovereign nation, as the Bush Administration implored Pakistan to realise the ‘seriousness’ of the unprecedented Mumbai Terror attacks. With Obama and Secretary of State ...
Read more...
President-elect Barack Obama leaves a news conference with Secretary of State-designate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., in Chicago on Monday. They are followed by, from left, Attorney General-designate Eric Holder; Homeland Security Secretary-designate, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano; Defense ...
Read more...
CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama put the rancor and even some of the rhetoric of the presidential campaign behind him on Monday as he welcomed his chief Democratic adversary into his cabinet and signaled flexibility in his plans to withdraw troops from Iraq. Click to enlarge President-elect ...
Read more...
Filed under: Earnings reports , Apple Inc (AAPL) , General Electric (GE) , Ford Motor (F) , General Motors (GM) , JPMorgan Chase (JPM) , Sears Holdings (SHLD) , Goldman Sachs Group (GS) , Staples Inc (SPLS) , Palm Inc (PALM) General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM ), Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F ) and Chrysler ...
Read more...
CHICAGO (AP) - The arrest of Jennifer Hudson's estranged brother-in-law in the shooting deaths of her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew confirmed what police officials have quietly said for weeks: that the 27-year-old convicted felon was the prime suspect in the slayings. William Balfour was ...
Read more...