Reuters - Factory activity in Asia's main economies expanded last month, with India and South Korea growing at their fastest pace in around two years although China showed some signs of weakening.

AP - Oil prices hovered below $79 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as investors mulled mixed signals about the strength of the U.S. economy.

AP - A group of Democratic senators is urging the Obama administration to suspend an economic stimulus program aimed at financing renewable energy, complaining that money is going to projects that are creating jobs in foreign countries.

AP - The Bank of England is expected to keep interest rates at a record low of 0.5 percent and take no further action on purchasing assets to boost the money supply when it announces its monthly monetary policy decision later Thursday.

AFP - The United States shed 36,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent, the government said in a better-than-expected report Friday that may be skewed by adverse winter weather.

Reuters - The crisis in Greece affects the whole of Europe and requires a political solution, which could even include a role for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Italy's Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti said on Saturday.

AFP - US casinos have run into a string of bad luck as the recession and other factors cut into gambling revenues, even as more states move to get a piece of the action.

Reuters - The Federal Reserve could retain oversight of large bank holding companies under a scaled-back regulatory reform plan being considered by key senators, but important questions remained unanswered, lobbyists said on Sunday.

Reuters - Deutsche Post DHL (DPWGn.DE) said a global economic recovery and cost cuts will help it boost its core profit this year and in 2011.

AFP - The United States said it would expose 'troublesome' foreign trade barriers in a strategy to prise open markets for doubling American exports to ease an unemployment crisis at home.

AFP - US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has warned the European Commission its plans to regulate hedge funds and private equity groups could spark a transatlantic row, a paper reported Thursday.

AP - Canada's unemployment rate has slipped to 8.2 percent as the economy gained 21,000 jobs.

Reuters - The United States should rethink domestic and global financial regulation, Lawrence Summers, director of the White House's National Economic Council, said on Friday, outlining six 'imperatives.'

AFP - The US Federal Reserve's policy makers are expected to maintain benchmark interest rates at virtually zero percent at their meeting this week amid intense debate on how soon the central bank should tighten monetary policy.

AFP - US industrial production inched up 0.1 percent in February, grinding to a near-halt amid severe snow storms that crippled large parts of the East Coast, Federal Reserve data showed Monday.

Reuters - Many workers around the world have given up hopes of advancing in their jobs, but the bad economy is keeping them from finding new ones.

Reuters - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday defended the central bank's supervision of smaller banks, which it would lose in regulatory reform proposals, in a hearing before a congressional panel.

AP - Public sector debt in the United Kingdom climbed above 60 percent of GDP in February as government agencies borrowed another 12.4 billion pounds ($19 billion), the Office for National Statistics said Thursday.

AP - The cruise industry is rebounding, but not for the companies who build the increasingly elaborate ships.

Reuters - Regulators must be 'significantly tougher' on large and complex financial firms to limit wider risks, but big firms are still needed to keep the global economy humming, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Saturday.

Reuters - The United States has thrown trillions of dollars at the slumping housing market and it still looks wobbly.

AP - Fields of white cotton once stretched as far as the eye could see across the fertile Mississippi Delta, but now many of those acres are flush with green corn stalks.

AP - Here are the 20 most economically stressed counties with populations of at least 25,000 and their January 2010 Stress scores, according to The Associated Press Economic Stress Index:

Reuters - The Federal Reserve will start moving away from its zero interest rate policy later this year as the U.S. economy improves modestly and job growth resumes, the UCLA Anderson Forecast unit said on Wednesday.

Reuters - A senior Chinese central banker on Thursday played down the need for an imminent rise in borrowing costs to keep a balance between growth and inflation in the world's third-largest economy.

AFP - The US Treasury Department has announced new financial sanctions targeting Muthanna Harith al-Dari, an Iraqi accused of providing support to Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).

AFP - US President Barack Obama used his traditional radio address Saturday to showcase his administration's legislative achievements, arguing the country has made steps toward restoring its economic security.

AFP - In a tale of pirates, rum and economic warfare, the US Virgin Islands have lured Captain Morgan maker Diageo from Puerto Rico, leading to a daggers-drawn political battle in Washington.

AP - A survey shows economic sentiment in the European Union improved in March, due mainly to industrial juggernaut Germany, after a pause in February.

Reuters - U.S. unemployment remains a cause for concern, a top U.S. Federal Reserve official said, adding that inflationary concerns are minimal.

Reuters - Bank of Ireland is to raise private capital, potentially becoming the only member of an Irish 'bad bank' scheme to escape a fresh bailout, as Dublin faces years of scrimping to plug the black hole created by the sector.