By Kevin Lim and Saeed Azhar

These are nervous times for companies in emerging Asia when heavy debt burdens threaten their credit ratings, says Sundeep Tucker

The tight credit market means many consumers are resorting to expensive alternative sources of borrowing that could inflate their Christmas shopping bills by as much as 52 per cent, it has been claimed

CHICAGO (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama promised on Monday to jolt the faltering U.S. economy with a costly stimulus package next year and introduced the team that will help him navigate the global financial crisis

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Boeing Co's <BA.N> chief financial officer said on Wednesday he would be happy if the strike by the company's machinists were resolved in a month, but warned that the work stoppage could be more costly than the previous month-long strike in 2005

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Gustav, which came ashore southwest of New Orleans on Monday morning, is expected to trigger significant insurance claims but far less than record-setting Katrina did three years ago

SUNNYVALE, Calif.----Mu Dynamics, a pioneer in helping network operators and their vendors eliminate downtime through proactive service assurance, today announced a joint presentation and demonstration with ABB , a global leader in power and automation technologies, and Digital Bond, a control system security research and consulting company, at PCSF 2008 on Aug 27