For those following economic trends, the past 18 months are notable primarily for two reasons. First, the US housing market, long seen as overvalued finally went from boom to bust.

April 28 (Bloomberg) -- Tony Walden squeezes his green mobile crane on to the forecourt of a Shell gasoline station on the outskirts of Edinburgh and waits. It's the fourth set of pumps he's tried, and all are out of diesel.

Under the patronage of His Excellency Mr. Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy and Industry, State of Qatar, His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Saleh Al Sada, Qatari Minister of State for Energy and Industry Affairs launched

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The following companies are having unusual price changes in U.S. trading . Stock symbols are in parentheses, and share prices are as of 1:20 p.m. in New York.

Anti-Bioterrorism Research? Last week, about a dozen “analysts” from the U.S. Army’s secretive Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah were out and about visiting companies in San Diego’s biotech sector to learn about how to set up labs that can make poten