After the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected two other weight-loss pills earlier this year, an advisory panel has recommended the approval of Orexigen Therapeutics’s Contrave. If the FDA follows the recommendation, Cont…
The outlook for the U.S. job market has improved, with more employers planning to take on new staff in the first quarter of 2011 and fewer planning cuts, according to a survey by staffing agency Manpower (MAN).
U.S. hiring plans are improved from thr…
BP is apparently considering the $1 billion sale of some of its assets in the North Sea as it tries to cover cleanup costs from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The company’s Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico exploded in April, l…
Most people raising the issue of false mortgage documents are homeowners facing foreclosure. And banks often respond that botched paperwork is a mere technicality — nothing to worry about. Then you find a case like Wells Fargo…
Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) is in talks to buy Chrysler Financial Corp. for as much as $7 billion, Bloomberg News said.
Toronto-Dominion may reach an agreement with Cerberus Capital Management, the owner of the auto-loan company, as soon as this week,…