In the world of higher commodity prices, corporate winners and losers fall into two distinct camps. Commodity producers are big beneficiaries, their business outlooks generally strong and their ratings stable, as scarcity and worldwide demand affect every

SOURCE: RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND TRAINING UNEMPLOYED Rhode Island residents numbered 41,100 in May, an unprecedented monthly increase of 6,200 and a jump of 12,500 from the same month last year.

Laurence Kerr, a former minister-counselor for economic affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, puts Mexico's economy in historical context and illustrates that continuing issues including immigration, security, and oil industry policies threaten its

A private research group says that Americans remain the most pessimistic about the economy since the tail end of the last prolonged recession 16 years ago.

Nevada Business Connections, launched in July to recruit new business to the Carson-Douglas-Lyon-Story county region, has completed its first venture to California.