Soft European markets were a consistent and negative theme of the first-quarter results from big U.S. industrial companies, and concerns about further deterioration are expected to be a key topic at the annual conference that starts Monday.
This week, when Home Depot and Lowe's report fiscal first-quarter results, the reconstruction phase from last year's superstorm Sandy will be looming large as cooler-than-normal temperatures delay spring selling.
An independent Scotland would have banking assets worth more than 1,250% of Scottish gross domestic product, putting taxpayers at significant risk in the event of another banking crisis, the U.K. Treasury said Sunday.
Is it time for a Flat Tax?
Do you believe President Obama when he says he found out about problems in the IRS when he read it in the paper?
Should the State Police have released the foreign "students" found trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir last night?
What is the bigger scandal? Watergate or IRSgate
Which is going to be the bigger scandal:
If found guilty should Ariel Castro, who kidnapped and enslaved 3 woman for over a decade get the death penalty?
Do you want to know where Speed Bump aka Terrorist No. 1 is buried?
