Lynda Bell has worked in food service since she was 8 years old. That's when her parents opened a meat market, and when the opportunity arose for her to take it over, she couldn't resist. From that meat market and deli, Bell began a catering business th

Employers cut far fewer jobs in April than in recent months and the unemployment rate dropped to 5 percent. It was a better-than-expected showing that nonetheless still revealed strains in the nation's labor market.

THE LOCAL plastics industry expects a gloomy second half of the year as rising prices of raw materials and a generally negative business sentiment take their toll.

Some analysts think a violent contraction in Chian's economy could spark widespread social unrest among the billion inhabitants of the so-called "fragile superpower"

Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The yen fell to the lowest since January against the dollar after Japan's government said the economy is ``deteriorating,'' acknowledging for the first time that the country's longest postwar expansion has probably ended.