Automakers Report Sales Gains, Despite Rising Gas Prices
By NICK BUNKLEY
All three Detroit carmakers beat analysts’ expectations, as did Nissan, which reported a 16 percent sales increase.
Prices typically rise about 20 cents in the summer, and a major disruption in oil supplies could add another 50 cents a gallon, analysts say.
An American helicopter and destroyer, right, patrol in the Strait of Hormuz. The ship at the left is an oil tanker.
All three Detroit carmakers beat analysts’ expectations, as did Nissan, which reported a 16 percent sales increase.
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association said on Thursday that based on current evidence the Greek bailout would not prompt payments on the credit-default swaps.
The jobless rate in the 17 euro nations rose in January to 10.7 percent from 10.6 percent in December, reaching the highest level since the introduction of the euro in 1999, new data showed.
It’s not just Apple. Android apps do not need permission to access a user’s photos, and as long as an app has the right to access the Internet, it can copy those photos to a remote server without any notice, according to developers and mobile security experts.
Led by two stores for teenagers, the Buckle and Zumiez, a measure of retail sales increased 4.7 percent last month.
Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, had one of his shortest and least contentious appearances on Capitol Hill since the recession started five years ago.
The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell slightly last week, a further sign that the United States job market is improving. Also, incomes rose 0.3 percent.
The tech industry is doubling down on efforts to speed up the Web as people refuse to wait even 250 milliseconds for a page to load.
Wilbur L. Ross Jr. provided some indication of the future of his firm, W. L. Ross, in a letter to investors, but, like many aging business titans, the line of succession has been a looming question.
In their new operating systems, Windows 8 and Mountain Lion, Microsoft and Apple are heading up the effort to make computers more like mobile devices.
A new camera called a Lytro allows photographers to take a picture first, then refocus the digital image afterward.
The presidential candidate would cut taxes for almost everybody and everything — except, it seems, for single mothers, soldiers and municipal bonds.
What $5-a-gallon gas prices could mean for the economy; a curious interpretation related to Greece's bailout; the technology industry's need for speed on the Web.
For more than 30 years, Republicans have misrepresented to the public how tax cuts contributed to the soaring deficit, an economist writes.
Microsoft has made a test version of its new Windows 8 operating system software available to the public.
Am I better off taking a bonus? Or should I pay myself back for the loans I have made to the company?
With the unemployment rate still high, colleges are tailoring their continuing-education programs to suit current and future job openings.
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