CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The U.S. government should leave the business of launching cargo and people into Earth orbit to private commercial space transporters, members of a presidential panel said on Wednesday.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tiny synthetic particles carrying a payload of toxin worked as well as chemotherapy at killing ovarian cancer cells in mice, without the bad side effects, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Organic food has no nutritional or health benefits over conventionally produced food, according to a major study published on Wednesday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose on Thursday as solid corporate profit reports and a drop in the number of Americans on jobless benefits gave investors reasons to buy equities following the S&P 500’s two days of losses.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. financial regulators would gain the power to restrict holdings of over-the-counter derivatives under legislation to be crafted in the coming months, the chairmen of two House of Representatives committees said on Thursday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - MetLife , the largest U.S. life insurer, posted a quarterly net loss of .4 billion on Thursday, as investment losses took their toll.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government will not suspend its billion “cash for clunkers” auto sales incentive even though confirmed sales and pending transactions neared the limit of 250,000 vehicles much sooner than expected, an Obama administration official said on Thursday night.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - One hundred ninety-seven years, one month and 14 days after its founding, Citigroup Inc has given a roughly 34 percent stake to U.S. taxpayers.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp posted a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss, helped by an improvement in its struggling flat TV business, and said it was aiming to beat its official forecast and at least break even for the full year.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - No. 1 U.S. trucking company YRC Worldwide Inc on Thursday reported a large loss due to plunging revenue and hefty charges, and said it was hard to say if the economy has hit bottom, sending its stock down 14 percent.
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