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Weak manufacturing industry crumples Alcoa jobsPittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 2 hours ago'When the auto industry goes down, it (aluminum demand) goes down with it,' said Nicholas Adams, vice president of business and statistics for the Aluminum ...Business news briefs Pittsburgh Post Gazetteall 22 news articles

Adolf Merckle's family plans to sell generic drug maker Ratiopharm after securing a bridge loan to prop up the teetering business empire.

In a society far away and long ago, people mostly farmed and ran storefront businesses where they lived. Then came the migration to the cities, where a new generation of workers stuffed into bulging urban-based factory jobs. Many spent their entire adult lives working for The Man in an upstairs office.

NEW YORK - Shares of Alcoa Inc. fell Wednesday after analysts said the aluminum producer&os;s plan to cut staff and production, curtail capital investment and sell four businesses is good but not good enough. Faced with plummeting aluminum prices and ...

NEW YORK -- A warning from tech giant Intel about poor business conditions and more evidence of rising unemployment left stocks with their biggest losses in a month Wednesday. The news upended some investors&os; hopes for a speedy economic recovery this ...

A warning from tech giant Intel about poor business conditions and more evidence of rising unemployment left stocks with their biggest losses in a month yesterday. The news upended some investors&os; hopes for a speedy economic recovery this year and ...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd on Wednesday scheduled an oversight hearing for Jan. 15 to review President Elect Barack Obama's nominee to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mary Schapiro, and other key nominees. Dodd and other lawmakers are expected to scrutinize Schapiro's qualifications and question her about whether she plans to press for the combination of the SEC and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. In addition to Schapiro, Daniel Tarullo who is designated to join the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, is scheduled to testify before the committee. Christina Romer, who is designated to chair the Obama administration's Council of Economic Advisors and two other members of the advisory committee are also scheduled to appear before the panel. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

One of India's largest outsourcing companies struggled Thursday to retain an air of normalcy as the business community reeled from the news that the company chairman had been doctoring the books for years. The whereabouts of Chairman B. Ramalinga Raju, who...

(CEP News) - Australia's trade balance delivered a fourth consecutive surplus in November, buoyed by high contract prices for commodities that may not hold up for much longer, economists say.

Outlook A harbinger of things to come, or just an anomaly? To everyone's astonishment, the German government yesterday failed to raise the full €6bn it was looking for from an auction of 10-year ...