Stock investors hit from all sides in January

NEW YORK — Stock investors were hit from all sides in January. Concerns about the global economy and U.S. company earnings, as well as turmoil in emerging markets, led the Dow Jones industrial average to its worst start since 2009. However, many investors...

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Mass. women promote Cape Ann gourmet sea salt

GLOUCESTER, Mass. — The location of the harvest is a secret because ... well, because the Salt Ladies want to keep it that way. And it does not do to cross the Salt Ladies. The unseasonably balmy 40-degree temperatures of Martin Luther King Jr. Day...

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Silverado redo earns its awards

Never one to shy from a full-sized pickup truck fight, Chevy redesigned the 2014 Silverado 1500 by trimming some weight, updating the interior and reworking the engine to improve gas mileage. And for this year it's captured Truck of the Year honors from...

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Toney chains end health coverage

Add Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue to the list of retailers ending health insurance for part-timers in response to new Obamacare regulations. The chains decided to no longer offer coverage to associates who average less than 30 hours of work...

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Obama running out of reasons to reject Keystone XL

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is running out of reasons to say no to Keystone XL, the proposed oil pipeline that's long been looming over his environmental legacy. Five years after the pipeline's backers first asked the Obama administration for...

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Porter Sq. Galleria goes to L.A. firm

The Porter Square Galleria has a new owner under a $35.55 million deal that closed yesterday. Los Angeles real estate investment management firm CBRE Global Investors bought the 57,265-square-foot retail center from KS Partners. Built in 1989, the...

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They’re sold on Magoun Square

If you want to gauge the energy in Somerville's Magoun Square, take a look at the retail storefronts and the empty lots and old garage sites filling up with new housing. Two years ago there were about a dozen empty storefronts in the retail district...

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John Henry makes himself Globe publisher, Sheehan to be CEO

Red Sox owner John Henry named himself publisher of The Boston Globe yesterday and former Hill Holliday head Mike Sheehan as chief executive officer — a move that demonstrates Henry's day-to-day focus on the broadsheet, Sheehan told the Herald. "He's...

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Panel: We’d refund $85M casino fees

The state Gaming Commission is advancing an idea to refund casinos their hefty $85 million licensing fee if a well-funded push to overturn the Bay State's gaming law is successful, which would put a serious crimp in the state budget that relies on those...

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New Seaport rentals launch

Transportation and retail needs of the South Boston waterfront are being pushed to the forefront as the building boom continues with the latest luxury apartment building officially opening yesterday. "It's going to propel the conversation, the public...

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LG throws rivals a curve

Maybe I'm not hip enough. But I don't understand why anyone needs a smartphone with a curved screen. And I've given it a lot of thought since I received the LG G Flex — the world's first slightly flexible, subtly curved smartphone. Give LG credit for...

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Ax falls in scandal over Harvard’s Romanian forests

Harvard University's Romanian timberland investments have put it at the center of an international bribery and money laundering scandal. Romanian authorities last week arrested a former Harvard investment agent on charges that he accepted $1.3 million...

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City Council seeks end to channel freeze-out

Boston City Councilors waded into a fee dispute between DirecTV and The Weather Channel yesterday, passing a resolution asking them to iron out their stormy relationship, and the national weather channel thanked the city for speaking up. "As a Bostonian...

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Cutbacks harsh medicine

Biotech and health care industry leaders yesterday warned that pressures to control health care costs under state law and Obama­care could have a chilling effect on innovation in the Hub. The fear is that health care providers and insurers will try...

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Shares extend losses in wake of Fed stimulus cut

TOKYO — Shares were lower Thursday as weak economic data from China and Japan deepened jitters over ongoing reductions in U.S. monetary stimulus. The U.S. Federal Reserve's decision to further "taper," or reduce, its mortgage and long-term bond purchases...

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Insurer WellPoint's 4Q profit drops 68 percent

INDIANAPOLIS — WellPoint's fourth-quarter earnings tumbled 68 percent, as customers of the nation's second largest health insurer raced to use their coverage last fall before it became cancelled under the health care overhaul. The Indianapolis company...

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Web attack traffic soars

The U.S. had the third-highest percentage of observed cyber attack traffic in the third quarter of 2013, and hackers managed to shut down websites more often in the first three quarters of the year than in all of 2012, according to a new report. Akamai,...

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Nintendo profit falls on sluggish Wii U sales

TOKYO — Profit at Nintendo Co. fell 30 percent in the first nine months of the fiscal year as sales of Wii U home consoles, 3DS devices and game software languished. Top executives announced they would take pay cuts. The Japanese maker of Super Mario...

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Group aims to improve food at Pa. corner stores

PHILADELPHIA — From the outside, Carmen Medina's convenience store appears to be an oasis in the food desert of gritty north Philadelphia, from its bright yellow-and-white striped awnings to the fake palm tree sculptures on the sidewalk. A glimpse inside...

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Demand for planes boosts Boeing 4Q profit

Boeing's fourth-quarter profit rose 26 percent as it delivered more commercial airplanes — a speedup that it says will continue this year. Boeing says it will deliver 715 to 725 planes this year, a boost of at least 10 percent from last year. In the...

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Connector-fix price tag unknown

Massachusetts Health Connector officials, who admitted in October they've incurred "substantial costs" as a result of developing manual workarounds to the disastrous $69 million state Obamacare website, still aren't saying exactly how much that price...

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Mass. grants $40 million for health initiatives

BOSTON — Gov. Deval Patrick has announced that more than $40 million in grants will be awarded to community-based programs for preventing chronic illnesses by cutting health care costs. Nine community-based partnerships, including the Boston Public...

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Siemens net profit rises 20 percent, orders up

FRANKFURT, Germany — Industrial equipment maker Siemens AG said quarterly net profit rose 20 percent as the company moved past one-time charges for delays delivering high-speed trains. Net profit rose to 1.46 billion euros ($2 billion) in the fourth...

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India's central bank hikes key interest rate

NEW DELHI — India's central bank raised its key interest rate for the third time in four months Tuesday and its governor said combating stubbornly high inflation is the top priority despite an "increasingly worrisome" slowdown in economic growth. The...

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'Long-term unemployment' _ one mom's story

AURORA, Ill. — Down the road from an emergency food pantry where a small crowd waits for the chance to gather free groceries, there is a church sign that reads: "If you need help, ask God. If you don't, thank God." Debbie Jurcak, one of those in line,...

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Keyboard for iPad Air a best bet

Logitech Ultrathink Keyboard Cover for iPad Air ($99.95, AppleStore.com) It was unfortunate iPad Air owners had to wait so long for keyboard accessories to hit the shelves. They're not cheap, but Logitech's keyboard is tailor-made for the iPad Air,...

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Intravenous nurses make points

Being an intravenous nurse involves a lot more than sticking patients with needles. This specialty branch of nursing, with teams in most major hospitals, requires specialized training to install complex central catheters and to operate new technology...

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Sochi to be 'mobile games'

If the 2012 Olympics in London were the first-ever "social games," then Sochi's festivities will be the first "mobile games." AT&T, Samsung, NBC and Team USA are just some of the big names that have developed mobile apps for the 2014 Winter Olympics,...

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Rider’s ‘ghost bike’ spurs safety innovation

The white "ghost bike" at Huntington Avenue and Forsyth Street haunted Amir Farjadian and Qingchao Kong each time they rode past it on their way to Northeastern University. It had been left there in June 2012 in memory of Kelsey Rennebohm, a Boston...

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After loss, LG sees lower profit, currency risks

SEOUL, South Korea — LG Electronics Inc. is forecasting lower earnings from its mobile business this quarter and risks from swings in Latin American currencies after posting an unexpected loss in the final three months of 2013. The latest results from...

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German TV: Snowden says NSA also spies on industry

BERLIN — Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden claims in a new interview that the U.S. agency is involved in industrial espionage. German public television broadcaster ARD released a written statement before an interview airing Sunday night in which...

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Grocer powers on with idea

State permitting will pave the way for food waste from 213 Stop & Shop supermarkets to be converted into energy to power the grocery chain's Freetown distribution center. Quincy-based Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. plans to build a multimillion-dollar,...

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Smoking out the rough idle and stalling of Expedition

I have a 2001 Ford Expedition with the 5.4-liter V8 and 103,000 miles. At 98,000 miles it developed a rough idle and began stalling at stop signs. My local mechanic noticed low fuel pressure and replaced the fuel filter and fuel pump. It ran good but...

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Perks entice top engineers

As Boston's tech scene explodes and successful companies continue to grow at a breakneck pace, firms are stepping up to make sure top engineers end up at their desks and not at the business next door. "If you want access to the best talent, you have...

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Police arrest man in Japan tainted food scandal

TOKYO — Japanese police arrested a factory worker at a plant that churned out food laced with pesticide, which led to massive poisoning and a recall of more than 6 million packages of frozen food. Police on Sunday identified the suspect as Toshiki Abe,...

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