Ontario's beleaguered auto industry suffered another major blow Monday when General Motors announced it would close its transmission plant in Windsor, Ont., within two years. The plant employs 1,400 salaried and hourly workers.

Thousands of farmers have committed suicide in Maharashtra in recent years, saddled by debts they could not repay.

Extra years in school aren't paying off financially for many of Canada's young people, who are better educated but worse paid than people their age a generation ago. According to census data released Thursday by Statistics Canada, workers between ...

Vaune Dillmann thought the wording on his bottle caps was just a clever play on the name of the Northern California town where he brews his beer — Weed. Federal alcohol regulators thought differently. They have ordered Dillmann to stop selling bee...

Yeah, this can only end well. Hurry up and leave office, President Spend-Happy.

Prime Minister Harper refused to bail out Canada's ailing auto industry. He told Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty "Look, I operate at the macro level. We'll cut taxes, offer some regional incentives, but we're not prepared to take it one step down." G...

The feared recession in the US economy has already arrived, according to a report from Merrill Lynch.t said that Friday's employment report, which sent shares tumbling worldwide, confirmed that the US is in the first month of a recession.

China threatens to take the one job any Mexican can have and do well: making tequila.

China is running an "aggressive and large-scale industrial espionage campaign" against American technology, a US congressional commission says, in a report that will exacerbate growing tensions between the two countries.

The dollar reached an all new low in Europe. Charmin may start making dollar-ply toilet paper.

China and India are new powers of economic growth, soon to leave the US in the dust. I wonder what McDonald's new staple product will become.

The currency rose after a report showed the economy created more than twice as many jobs as expected. The data landed just before Bank of Canada officials make their decision on interest rates on Tuesday.

"In the past year, the FDA rejected more than twice as many food shipments from China as from all other countries combined. Most of the time, the reason listed is simply "filthy," the official term used when inspectors smell decomposition or gross co...

"About 460,000 Chinese die prematurely each year from breathing polluted air and drinking dirty water..."

Bottom line: Taxpayers are now on the hook for a record $59.1 trillion in liabilities, a 2.3% increase from 2006. That amount is equal to $516,348 for every U.S. household. By comparison, U.S. households owe an average of $112,043 for mortgages, car ...

Canada's labour supply could dry up in the decades ahead as baby boomers retire and people have fewer kids, which could have severe consequences for the economy, a government report suggests.

"U.S. home foreclosures in May jumped 90% from a year earlier, reflecting a poor spring housing market and foreshadowing even higher levels later in 2007..."

"Russian president Vladimir Putin called on Sunday for a radical overhaul of the world’s financial and trade institutions to reflect the growing economic power of emerging market countries – including Russia. Mr Putin said the world needed to create ...

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Disgruntled autoworkers who have occupied a plant in east-end Toronto say they have no plans to leave until the company agrees to pay severance to 200 laid-off workers.