Wall St rises after payrolls data (Reuters)
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, August 31, 2010. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidReuters - Wall Street advanced on Friday after a better-than-expected jobs report lifted investor...

Private hiring surprises with 67,000 new jobs (Reuters)
A home for sale is seen in Great Falls, Virginia August 23, 2010. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - U.S. employment fell for a third straight month in August, but the drop was far less th...

Campbell Soup profit beats Street but sales light (Reuters)
Cans of vegetable Campbell's Condensed Soup are stocked on a shelf at a grocery store in Phoenix, Arizona, February 22, 2010. Campbell's Soup Co has been having a tough time getting its soups from the store shelf to the home pantry. REUTERS/Joshua LottReuters - Campbell Soup Co posted lower-than-expected quarterly sales and forecast sales growth ...

Obama says to address new economic ideas next week (Reuters)
President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the latest employment statistics released on Friday, alongside Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner in the Rose Garden of the White House, September 3, 2010. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - President Barack Obama on Friday said he would address a package of new measures next w...

Walgreen same-store sales miss expectations (Reuters)
Reuters - Walgreen Co posted weaker-than-expected August sales at stores open more than a year, ...

Ex-hedge fund manager charged with insider trading (Reuters)
Reuters - A former hedge fund manager has been accused by a U.S. regulator of illegal insider tra...

Non-manufacturing sector slows in August: ISM (Reuters)
Reuters - The U.S. non-manufacturing sector grew in August for an eighth straight month but at a ...

Campbell reports Q4 profit rise on better margins (AP)
In this June 19, 2010 photograph, people walk along inside the new building at the Campbell Soup Co. headquarters, in Camden, N.J. The Campbell Soup Co. said Friday, Sept. 3, 2010, it made a profit of $113, or 33 cents per share during the fourth fiscal quarter, when the temperature rises and its soup sales traditionally drop. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - During a summer of record-breaking heat through much of the U.S., the Campbell Soup Co. stru...

Experts see trouble ahead for developed world (AP)
Israeli President Shimon Peres, center, arrives for the 'Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy' economic forum, at Villa d'Este, in Cernobbio, on Lake Como, Italy, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)AP - Is the global economy out of the woods? Two years after near-meltdown, with the U.S. looking...

Petrobras sells 64 bln dlrs of stock to fund exploration (AFP)
View of an oil platform off the coast of Brazil. Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras has unveiled a huge share offering which could raise 64 billion dollars to help finance new exploration projects in the country.(AFP/File/Antonio Scorza)AFP - Brazil's Petrobras unveiled one of the world's biggest share offerings on Friday, a sale of...

Asia leads world tourism recovery in 2010: UN (AFP)
Foreign tourists visit a Sri Lankan museum adjacent to the historic Temple of the Tooth in the island's central town of Kandy in August 2010. World tourism rebounded strongly this year from the global financial crisis, led by Asia and the Middle East, the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) has said.(AFP/File/Ishara S.Kodikara)AFP - World tourism rebounded strongly this year from the global financial crisis, led by Asia an...

Billionaire investor seals deal to buy German retail chain (AFP)
US-German investor Nicolas Berggruen attends a news conference at a Karstadt store in Berlin. The future of Karstadt, Europe's third-largest department store chain, appeared to be secured as a court approved its acquisition by Berggruen, safeguarding 25,000 jobs.(AFP/Johannes Eisele)AFP - The future of Germany's Karstadt, Europe's third-largest department store chain, appeared t...

Con man could get life under Calif. 3-strikes law (AP)
AP - A man accused of bilking elderly South Los Angeles residents out of their homes in a foreclo...

Crews prepare to raise failed blowout preventer (AP)
Vessels work at the site of the Deepwater Horizon accident off the shore of Louisiana in August 2010. British oil giant BP said that the devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster has cost about eight billion dollars (6.2 billions euros) so far.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Win Mcnamee)AP - A vessel has latched onto a key piece of evidence in the oil spill investigation so crews ca...

3 Ways Obama Could Boost Hiring (U.S. News & World Report)
U.S. News & World Report - Nearly three years after the recession began, President Obama wants t...