BMW’s 5 Series and Hyundai’s Sonata received the highest scores for passenger cars and trucks under a new U.S. crash safety rating system.
The two vehicles were the only ones to receive the top safety score of five stars in crash-safety tests, the Na…
Whisper it – Frito-Lay is about to say goodbye to its environmentally-friendly but very noisy SunChips bag.
Eighteen months ago, Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo (PEP), made lots of noise about a biodegradable SunChips bag made from plant material.
Now, after complaints that compared the sound of the bag to everything from a lawn mower to a jet engine, the company is removing the…
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A French judge sentenced former trader Jerome Kerviel to three years in prison and ordered him to repay a 4.9 billion euro ($6.8 billion) in damages to Societe Generale SA (SCGLY) for his role in one of the largest trading scandal’s in history.
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The Coast Guard estimates that a barge crash that took out power lines and halted shipping traffic across the Houston Ship Channel may end up costing as much as $1 billion in economic loss.
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In a sign that large fossil-fuel power plants may be falling out of favor, French engineering company Alstom on Monday announced plans to cut 4,000 jobs in the next 17 months. Alstom cited low demand for its coal and natural-ga…