Call me a rebel… or  a Scrooge… or a Grinch if you must, but I am so happy all this holiday nonsense is finally over.  And as I sit here trying to come up with a blog for the new year, the word “resolution” keeps popping into my head and I absolutely REFUSE to give [...]

Robert Tuccillo, Jr., a Barclays Capital trader, is surrounded with stock market info monitors as he works during the first day of trading at the New York Stock Market on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. The Dow Jones industrial average soared 200 points, or 1.7 percent, to 12,423 in the first minutes of trading Tuesday. 13:35 [...]

DETROIT — General Motors Co. will give buyers a choice of three engines in its new Cadillac ATS small sport sedan that will be built in Lansing. The ATS is expected to be revealed Jan. 8, the day before the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. It will come with a 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine [...]

View full sizeThe Associated PressJim Sierzega, plant site quality manager, looks at a Ford Focus on the assembly line at the Ford Michigan Assembly plant in Wayne, Mich. on Wednesday. U.S. industrial production fell in November for the first time in seven months. Factories made fewer cars, electronics and appliances. U.S. industrial production fell in [...]

Chinese President Hu Jintao said Sunday that China doesn’t intentionally pursue a large trade surplus and that it will focus on expanding imports in the coming years. In a speech broadcast live on state television, Hu said China’s ultimate aim is to have balanced trade and that total imports will exceed $8 trillion over the [...]