Sharp drops in fuel and food costs reduced a measure of U.S. wholesale prices in April by the most in three years. Outside those volatile categories, inflation stayed low.
Confidence among U.S. homebuilders rebounded this month, reflecting improved sales trends during the spring home-selling season and the strongest outlook for sales over the next six months in more than six years.
The recession across the economy of the 17 European Union countries that use the euro extended into its sixth quarter - longer than the calamitous slump that hit the region in the financial crisis of 2008-9.
In 1980, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. founder Ken Grossman effectively put the Cascade hop of Yakima on the map. More than three decades later, Washington State University researchers studying optimal brewing qualities with that same hop recently interned with Sierra Nevada master brewers to hone their brewing skills and learn advanced brewing methods that are being pioneered by American craft brewers.
Idaho's potato industry is gazing north of the U.S. border to a tiny Canadian apple breeder for a sign of how the public may embrace a genetically modified potato proposed for commercialization by the J.R. Simplot Co.
European aerospace company EADS said strong deliveries by airplane maker Airbus helped drive higher earnings in the first quarter and laid out the hope that the new A350 long-range aircraft should make its first flight this summer.
Small business owners were a little more optimistic during April but are generally still cautious.
A dozen years after a customer revolt forced Monsanto to ditch its genetically engineered potato, an Idaho company aims to resurrect high-tech spuds.
Prices paid by U.S. importers fell in April for the second straight month, pushed lower by another decline in imported petroleum. Falling import prices help keep inflation in check.
A union representing workers at Amazon in Germany says members are striking in a push for higher wages from the online retailer.
A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas.
The Supreme Court has sustained Monsanto Co.'s claim that an Indiana farmer violated the company's patents on soybean seeds that are resistant to its weed-killer.
Americans increased their spending in April at retail businesses, buying more cars and clothes while paying less for gas. The rebound from a weak March suggests consumers may help boost economic growth again this spring.
U.S. businesses left their stockpiles unchanged in March for a second straight month while their sales fell sharply.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said Monday the coffee chain's first stores in India and Vietnam have been received positively and it might soon be time to give Myanmar a shot too.
U.S. wholesale prices fall 0.7 percent, most in 3 years
U.S. homebuilder confidence rises in May from April
Eurozone recession extends into 6th quarter
Washington state hops in high demand; Cougar Ale on the way
Biotech apples may be harbinger for genetically modified spuds (Photo Gallery)
Airbus sales drive 1st quarter profits at parent company
Small business owners slightly more upbeat
Prices paid by U.S. importers fell 0.5 percent
Amazon workers in Germany stage strike
Natural gas export plans stir debate
High court rules for Monsanto in patent case
U.S. retail sales rise in April on cars, clothing
U.S. business stockpiles flat in March, sales fall
Starbucks sees Myanmar entry in couple of years