New orders for the UK's industrial output have slumped to a three-year low as a "winter of economic discontent" looms, and manufacturers are pulling back on staffing and investment in the face of increasingly gloomy predictions.

=================================================================== Industrial Production ! Consensus: ! Apr Mar ! Ind Prod: -0.4 ! Industrial Production: -0.7% +0.2%r ! Capacity: 80.0% ! Capacity Utilization 79.7% 80.4%r ! Actual: !

General Electric said that its profit fell 6 percent in the second quarter, and that it has agreed to sell its Japanese consumer finance business for $5.4 billion.

Richard Jansen's company moved into a new home in July, but it took awhile to find. Jansen is the president of Paper Solutions, a Knox County firm that converts large paper rolls into smaller rolls for cash registers and other machines. The executive sai

Tuesday's election was historic in more ways than one. It could have been the last election for an historic piece of voting equipment. The next time New Yorkers head to the polls the lever voting machines, used for more than 100 years, may not be there.