Thinking of cashing in on the Beyoncé baby boom? Too late! That train has already left the station, only four weeks after little Blue Ivy Carter was born . On Jan. 26, new parents Beyoncé and Jay-Z filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to protect the baby’s name — and reserve it for a future line of baby carriages, baby cosmetics, diaper bags and other undoubtedly ...

In the most impressive surge for the job market since early last year, the United States added 243,000 jobs in January, far more than economists expected. The unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 percent, the lowest in three years.

Wang Yang, the Communist Party chairman of China’s most populous province, got the chance to raise his profile ahead of the country’s leadership transition when he met today with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

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After some truly horrific personal income data last summer, the consumer is finally beginning to see meaningful increases in income.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The global industrial products (IP) industry experienced an increase in deal volume over the course of 2011 - 801 deals worth more than $50 million compared to 783 ...

In a long-awaited surge of hiring, companies added 243,000 jobs in January — across the economy, up and down the pay scale and far more than just about anyone expected. Unemployment fell to 8.3 percent, the lowest in three years.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to a near three-year low, giving a boost to President Barack Obama. Nonfarm payrolls jumped 243,000, the Labor Department said on Friday, as factory jobs grew by the most in a year. The jobless rate fell to 8.3 percent - the lowest since February 2009 ...

Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., the world’s biggest lender by market value, may hire 20 to 30 executives in Brazil as it expands in South America’s biggest economy, said a person familiar with the plans.

Government manufacturing policies must go beyond the belief that it’s better to produce “real things� than services. People value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.

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