http://news.net/Copyright (c) 2012 Publishing Services International Limited. All Rights Reserved. Designated trademarks, brands and domain names are the property of their respective owners. The nation's crude oil supplies shrank last week, the government said Wednesday. Crude supplies declined by 300,000 barrels, or 0.1 percent, to 394.6 million barrels, which is 3.1 percent above year-ago levels, the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration said in its w...http://news.net/article/295560/Business2013-05-22 15:02:52 The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action against the Justice Department. Gary Pruitt...http://news.net/article/295101/Business2013-05-19 22:58:52 German software giant SAP AG says it plans to recruit hundreds of staff with autism to make full use of their talents to process information. Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by difficulties in communicating, emotional detachment and rigid or repetitive behavior. But ...http://news.net/article/293856/Business2013-05-21 16:40:47 Herbalife Ltd. says it has hired PricewaterhouseCoopers to be its new auditor. The nutrition company's previous auditor KPMG resigned last month after insider trading allegations against a rogue executive of the accounting firm. The former KPMG partner, Scott London, has been ch...http://news.net/article/293872/Business2013-05-21 16:52:58 Stock indexes are edging higher in midday trading on Wall Street as investors look ahead to the Federal Reserve's next moves. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 32 points at 15,367 at noon Eastern Daylight Time Tuesday, a gain of 0.2 percent. The Standard & Poor's 500 index wa...http://news.net/article/293776/Business2013-05-21 15:57:21 Special K was once just a line of cereals. Today, it's a diet food empire. The brand first hit shelves in 1955 as a no-frills breakfast alternative but now caters to dieters who see its airy chips and pastries as a way to beat cravings and lose weight. And this summer, Kellogg Co. ...http://news.net/article/292365/Business2013-05-20 17:57:35 Copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME) has closed higher, although earlier gains stalled in the European afternoon in a quiet trading session as the US dollar's strength resumed.Meanwhile, the potential ability of warehouse exit queues to affect prices came back into focus with global stockpile s...http://news.net/article/291231/Business2013-05-19 09:14:51 Yahoo may be on the verge of closing its biggest acquisition during the 10-month reign of CEO Marissa Mayer as she tries to attract more traffic and advertisers to the Internet company's website and mobile applications. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company's board of directors will meet ...http://news.net/article/291085/Business2013-05-18 02:31:51 Alleged misbehavior by the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies gives the GOP something else to talk about and investigate as the economy clearly, if slowly, recovers on President Barack Obama's watch, robbing Republicans of a central argument against Democrats. Am...http://news.net/article/299066/Business2013-05-25 12:47:01 Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing 26 people and injuring 30, according to officials in Niger and France. A survivi...http://news.net/article/299068/Business2013-05-24 02:16:05 The man who famously put aside his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive in a Cleveland house said Friday that he's not endorsing a group of restaurants that are offering him free burgers for life and wants his name kept out of it. "I never told these people they could u...http://news.net/article/299064/Business2013-05-25 01:26:42 A California bill that would have required manufacturers to figure out how to keep the most common plastic junk out of state waterways died in the state Assembly without a vote Friday. Assembly Bill 521 was before the chamber's Appropriations Committee, and the panel failed to...http://news.net/article/298993/Business2013-05-24 22:43:40 Stocks prices are closing mostly lower on Wall Street, giving the market its first weekly loss in a month. The Dow Jones industrial average edged up eight points to 15,303 Friday, a gain of 0.1 percent. The Dow was supported by a big gain in Procter & Gamble. The Standard & Poor's ...http://news.net/article/298965/Business2013-05-24 20:11:20 After two days of intense questioning from French magistrates, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said Friday a court named her as a key witness in an investigation into a controversial payoff to an outspoken businessman that was arranged while she was France's financ...http://news.net/article/298955/Business2013-05-24 21:38:00 A truck hauling an oversized load of drilling equipment hit an overhead bridge girder on the major route between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the interstate into the river below as the driver watched the structure collapse in his rearview mirror. Two other ve...http://news.net/article/298934/Business2013-05-24 19:05:00 The Ocean Conservancy, a Washington D.C.-based environmental organization, released its 2012 list of trash collected during its International Coastal Cleanup. More than 10 million pounds of debris was collected globally, with more than 769,000 pounds collected in California alone. The most common it...http://news.net/article/298932/Business2013-05-24 19:03:45 LONG TIME GONE: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Myanmar on Friday on the first visit to the country by a Japanese leader in 36 years. Tokyo wants to expand economic ties after frosty relations with the previous military regime. HISTORY: Japan had close ties with Myanmar before the junta took po...http://news.net/article/298926/Business2013-05-24 18:53:24 Without even thinking, Joe Ortner rattles off a list of items on his family's dairy farm that could kill you: 1,000 gallons of diesel, 500 gallons of gas, cleaning chemicals in the milking parlor, oil and lubricant for repair work and a 6-foot-deep manure pond in which you could d...http://news.net/article/298895/Business2013-05-24 19:59:24 Moving quickly to stem a raging controversy, the new acting head of the Internal Revenue Service started cleaning house Thursday by replacing the supervisor who oversaw agents involved in targeting tea party groups. A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional h...http://news.net/article/298892/Business2013-05-23 23:18:26 Netflix is hoping this weekend's release of the resurrected TV series "Arrested Development" will draw more subscribers to its Internet video service. The award-winning show about the dysfunctional Bluth family returns Sunday, seven years after Fox cancelled the series. The re...http://news.net/article/298865/Business2013-05-24 20:48:17