WRAL.com - AP Business News
WRAL.com - AP Business News
Electric car network gets first test in Israel
Posted: 19 May 2012 at 3:06am
Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi has begun rolling out the world's first nationwide electric car network. Now, will the drivers come?
Facebook stock finishes flat in debut
Posted: 19 May 2012 at 12:09am
In the hours before Facebook's stock began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market for the first time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg reminded the company's 3,500 employees not to get caught up in the hoopla surrounding its long-awaited initial public offering.
G-8 leaders put focus on European financial crisis
Posted: 19 May 2012 at 4:08am
Drawn together in this serene mountain outpost, leaders of the major industrialized nations are prodding Germany to balance its push for European fiscal austerity with doses of stimulus spending to avoid an economic calamity that could reverberate worldwide.
Sudden wealth part of Silicon Valley's everyday
Posted: 18 May 2012 at 6:09pm
In Silicon Valley, where sudden wealth is hardly something new and CEOs favor hoodies over bespoke blazers, Facebook's IPO on Friday didn't bring everyday life to a halt.
FACEBOOK IPO LIVE: The social network goes public
Posted: 18 May 2012 at 5:22pm
It's Facebook's big day.
A debate: Should you jump in on Facebook debut?
Posted: 18 May 2012 at 7:01pm
EDITOR'S NOTE ? Facebook began selling stock to the public Friday in the most talked-about market debut in years. The stock closed 23 cents above its initial offering price, at $38.23. Two Associated Press business writers debate whether the stock is a smart buy.
Questions and answers on blockbuster Facebook IPO
Posted: 18 May 2012 at 7:38pm
Taking a company public isn't as simple as collecting Facebook friends.
Stocks fall on Europe worries; Facebook debuts
Posted: 18 May 2012 at 5:12pm
It's going to take more than Facebook's initial public offering to push the stock market higher.
Global leaders seek to corral Europe crisis
Posted: 18 May 2012 at 3:54am
The leaders of eight of the world's biggest economies meet this weekend outside Washington, seeking to keep Europe's debt crisis from spiraling out of control and jeopardizing fledgling recoveries in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Unemployment rate falls in two-thirds of US states
Posted: 18 May 2012 at 4:10pm
The unemployment rate fell in two-thirds of U.S. states last month, evidence that modest economic growth is boosting hiring in most areas of the country.
