It seems hard to believe today, but some of the biggest names in business — Intel, Staples, Outback Steakhouse, Nike, Ben & Jerry's, Ford — were once startup firms.

OTTAWA – Tens of thousands of Canadians, most of them in Ontario, lost their full-time jobs or were forced into part-time work last month as the country's non-energy economy showed signs of retreating, two Statistics Canada reports suggest.

Robert J. Samuelson says historians have not understood the significance of the ?Great Inflation? that raged through the economy in the late 1970s and early ?80s.

BAGUIO CITY -- The strong peso may have cushioned the economy from the steady increase in world oil prices, but it was not beneficial to wage earners seeking higher pay, an official of the Department of Labor and Employment said here on Wednesday.

 In light of the current downward trend of the U.S. economy, the National Retail Federation estimates that holiday retail spending will increase by a paltry 2.2 percent, the slowest rate of growth in the last six years.