Most of the big names hitting NFL free agency aren't big stars anymore. While Ed Reed is coming off a Super Bowl season in Baltimore and Wes Welker catches 100 passes every year, this crop is more about aging ... Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Reaction in the oil market to the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was muted Tuesday, with the price of crude rising slightly in electronic trading in New York. Chavez battled cancer for ... Read more
LONDON (AP) — U.S. stocks are not alone in racing ahead this year. Many markets in Europe and Asia are trading at multi-year highs, too, in part because of Wall Street's rally. The advances in some places have ... Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks edged lower on Wall Street Monday after the Chinese government announced new steps to cool the booming housing market in the world's second-largest economy. The Dow Jones industrial ... Read more
BEIJING (AP) — China is looking to increase its share of the global commercial satellite launching business, targeting a 15 percent share by 2020, a leading space program official said Saturday. China hopes to ... Read more
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela may be the only country in the world where a new car becomes more expensive the instant it's driven off the dealership lot. Buying a used 2012 Ford Explorer SUV means coughing ... Read more
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A bomb ripped through a crowded vegetable market in a mostly Shiite neighborhood in a southern Pakistani city Saturday, killing at least 63 people and wounding some 180, some critically, ... Read more
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Looking good has always been serious business in Brazil. Now it's big business, too. A flush new middle class and a population strong on working adults is dropping major cash on designer ... Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks drifted lower in Monday trading, pulling the Standard & Poor's 500 index back from its five-year high. The S&P 500 slipped one point to 1,517 shortly after noon. Eight of the ... Read more
The stock market is closing out its worst day so far this year, bringing the Dow average back below 14,000. The drop, which erased 129 points from the Dow Jones industrial average, came on the first trading day after ... Read more