Personal Economics
  • Scientists win Nobel for mapping body's 'cell traffic' system

    Scientists win Nobel for mapping body's 'cell traffic' system

    By Niklas Pollard and Julie Steenhuysen, Reuters

    STOCKHOLM/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Three scientists won the Nobel medicine prize on Monday for plotting how cells transfer vital materials such as hormones and brain chemicals to other cells, giving...

  • Memories of Facebook cloud Twitter's IPO

    Memories of Facebook cloud Twitter's IPO

    By Poornima Gupta, Reuters

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When Facebook Inc was preparing to go public last year, the telephones at Granite Investment Advisors rang off the hook as clients called about the social media's company's...

  • Pentagon recalling most civilian defense employees idled by shutdown

    Pentagon recalling most civilian defense employees idled by shutdown

    By Phil Stewart, Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Saturday it will recall most of the roughly 400,000 civilian Defense Department employees sent home during the government shutdown, in a move that could...

  • Syria submits further details of its chemical arms program

    Syria submits further details of its chemical arms program

    By Louis Charbonneau, Reuters

    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria has given international experts additional details about its chemical weapons program that go beyond a September 21 declaration of its poison gas arsenal, the United...

  • In tough economic times, the poor and uninsured turn to free health clinics for medical care.

    The Hidden Costs of Rejecting Medicaid Expansion

    By Julie Steenhuysen, Reuters

    As Americans across the nation begin to find out what Obamacare has in store for them, many of Mississippi's most needy will find out the answer is nothing. That is likely the case for William and...