(AP:NEW YORK) Wall Street shot higher Thursday as investors, while anticipating another dismal jobs report Friday, viewed the rising dollar and falling oil prices as promising signs for the economy.

“Japan is sitting on a demographic time bomb,” warned Kazuhiro Asakawa, a business professor at Keio University. “An explosion is going to take place. They see it coming, but no one is doing enough about it.”

The country’s influential business group said. A comprehensive discussion and a wider platform for building a new constitution that includes not only politicians but also civil society, academics and judicial institutions would be a good start to ease t

Perhaps the biggest falsehood when you start a business: You can set your own hours With employers cutting thousands of jobs each month amid a slowing economy, many downsized workers decide to start their own small businesses. The transition can be dau

PITTSBURGH — Small business is risky business these days. Costs are rising, profits are shrinking and the ability of the big guys to keep prices relatively lower is drawing