Bill would ban "fracking" in Mass. for 10 years

BOSTON — A bill aimed at temporarily banning the natural gas drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing — or fracking — is making its way through the Massachusetts Statehouse. The Legislature's Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources...

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Mass. promotes locally-grown Christmas trees

BOSTON — State officials are urging residents to buy locally-grown Christmas trees this season. State agriculture commissioner Greg Watson joined other state and local officials for Friday's annual tree-cutting ceremony at Crane Neck Christmas Tree...

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Troubled Vatican bank names consultant as manager

VATICAN CITY — The troubled Vatican bank announced its new top manager Saturday, promoting an outside consultant who had stepped in when the bank's top two managers resigned amid scandal last summer. Rolando Marranci had worked for Promontory Financial...

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VP Biden trying to show US still focused on Asia

WASHINGTON — It's up to Vice President Joe Biden to show that the U.S. effort to realign its gaze toward Asia hasn't fizzled out. Biden is set to arrive Monday in Tokyo on a weeklong trip to Asia, which is watching carefully to see how committed the...

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Pioneering offshore wind project faces deadlines

BOSTON — As it seeks investors, a project off the Massachusetts coast that aims to be the nation's first offshore wind farm must reach fast-approaching benchmarks or risk missing out on hundreds of millions in critical funding. To qualify for a tax...

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Report: Financial services help drive Mass

BOSTON — A new study says the financial services industry in Massachusetts remains strong even though not all the jobs lost in the recession have been replaced. Banks, insurance companies, money managers, and brokerage firms account for $36 billion,...

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Correction: Germany-Amazon story

BERLIN — In a story Nov. 25 about a strike against Amazon.com in Germany, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the union ver.di represents about 2,000 Amazon employees in Leipzig and 3,300 in Bad Hersfeld. The German news agency dpa reported...

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Holiday shopping season begins on Thanksgiving

NEW YORK — Shoppers gobbled turkey, but saved the pumpkin pie for later on Thanksgiving Day. As more than a dozen major retailers from Target to Toys R Us opened on Thanksgiving, shoppers across the country got a jump start on holiday shopping. The...

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Small company helps Twitter make money

DENVER — Twitter just issued its IPO but a lingering question is how the popular worldwide microblog company will turn a profit. One Colorado-based company thinks it has found one way to help Twitter, and itself, make money. Wayin has partnered up with...

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Consumer behavior aggressively tracked this season

WASHINGTON — It's a big question for marketers: What kind of a buyer are you? And, as important, what are you willing to pay? In the search for answers this shopping season, consumer behavior online and off is being tracked aggressively with help from...

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Nonstop flights connect Boston, China

The first nonstop air service between Boston and Beijing will be announced next week, the Herald has learned — and it promises to dramatically boost business between a leading world technology and research zone here in the Hub and China's massive emerging...

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World of differences

With Hainan Airlines due to connect Boston and Beijing as never before, the Freedom Trail and the Great Wall of China — as well as Kendall Square and China's factories — have never been closer. Here's a look at the soon-to-be linked economic and cultural...

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Safety first for Black Friday frenzy

Massachusetts stores will be beefing up security, staggering lines and handing out first-come, first-served tickets for hot Black Friday sale items to avoid the kind of stampede that killed a Wal-Mart employee five years ago in New York. "The busy shopping...

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Casino gambles on Revere

Mohegan Sun and its New York-based investor would be the sole owners of a $1 billion Revere casino — not Suffolk Downs — under a new eleventh-hour agreement finalized just days before the two sides could learn whether they're legally free to build a...

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Technology reveals what kind of shopper you are

WASHINGTON — Advances in technology have never made finding deals this holiday season so easy — or so creepy. Marketers and mobile app developers have developed creative new ways to help shoppers find what they want for less. But these inventive techniques...

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Israel: EU funds will not reach occupied land

JERUSALEM — Israel will ensure that money it receives under a technology-sharing pact with the European Union will not be spent in the West Bank or east Jerusalem, an Israeli official said Wednesday, acceding to a European funding ban on projects in...

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UK-based Standard Chartered opens branch in Iraq

BAGHDAD — British bank Standard Chartered PLC says it has opened a branch in Iraq's capital, Baghdad and that it hopes to play a role in the country's economic growth. A statement said Wednesday that the main aim is to meet the increasing banking needs...

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CVS Caremark to buy Coram for $2.1 billion

NEW YORK — Drugstore chain CVS Caremark Corp. says it has agreed to buy the drug infusion business Coram LLC, a unit of Apria Healthcare Group Inc., for $2.1 billion. Coram, which is based in Denver, provides customers with medication and nutrition...

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Clashes during Tunisia protest over economy

TUNIS, Tunisia — Clashes erupted in one of three Tunisian cities where tens of thousands of people demonstrated Wednesday over their declining economic situation, calling for greater investment in their impoverished regions. Dozens of protesters attempted...

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Greek economy seen shrinking further next year

ATHENS, Greece — A leading international economic body is predicting that Greece's economy will shrink further next year and that the government might need more financial help. In a survey published Wednesday, the Organization for Economic Cooperation...

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Ford to recall Escapes again for oil, fuel leaks

DETROIT — Ford is recalling the Escape small SUV again, this time to fix oil and fuel leaks that could cause engine fires. The hot-selling SUV has been recalled seven times since it was redesigned and went on sale in the spring of 2012. The first of...

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Barnes & Noble swings to 2Q profit

NEW YORK — Barnes & Noble returned to a profit in the fiscal second quarter as it invested less in its Nook e-book reader and cost cuts offset lower sales. Its sales missed expectations, however, and its shares dropped more than 3 percent in premarket...

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US home permits rise at 5-year high on apartments

WASHINGTON — U.S. developers received approval in October to build apartments at the fastest pace in five years, a trend that could boost economic growth in the final three months of the year. Permits to build houses and apartments were approved at...

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NHL, Rogers reach $5.2 billion Canadian TV deal

TORONTO — The NHL says it has reached a 12-year, $5.2 billion agreement with Rogers Communications for the league's Canadian broadcast and multimedia rights. Rogers said Tuesday that the CBC will keep airing "Hockey Night in Canada," and the TVA network...

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US home prices rose at slower pace in September

WASHINGTON — U.S. home prices rose more slowly in September than in August, a sign that weaker sales are preventing the kinds of sharp price gains that occurred earlier this year. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose...

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Fiat says no Chrysler IPO in 2013

FLORENCE, Italy — Chrysler won't be offering its stock for sale on the public markets this year. Italian automaker Fiat SpA, Chrysler's majority owner, said in a statement Monday that Chrysler's board has determined an initial public offering is "not...

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China to invest in Romanian nuclear, wind power

BUCHAREST, Romania — China's prime minister says his country will invest in Romanian nuclear and wind energy production as well as a high-speed railway. Li Keqiang arrived in Romania Monday a day ahead of a summit with leaders from Central and East...

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Regulators in China investigating Qualcomm

SAN DIEGO — Qualcomm is being investigated by Chinese regulators for possible violations of the country's anti-monopoly law. The company said Monday that details of the investigation by the National Development and Reform Commission are confidential....

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World stocks rise on Iran deal, Wall St momentum

LONDON — World stocks rose and oil prices fell Monday after world powers and Iran reached a deal on the country's nuclear program and as Wall Street added to its seven weeks of gains. Sunday's deal was the first significant progress in years to curtail...

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Portugal strikes, legal action bring fiscal risk

LISBON, Portugal — The Portuguese government's woes are piling up as it battles to comply with austerity measures demanded by its 78 billion-euro ($105 billion) bailout. Amid a recent spate of strikes by labor groups and street protests against pay...

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Swiss reject plan to cap managers' pay

BERLIN — Swiss voters soundly rejected on Sunday a proposal to limit the pay of companies' highest-paid managers to 12 times that of their lowest-paid workers, a plan that business leaders had warned could weaken the prosperous nation's economy. A projection...

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Longtime Progressive CEO Peter Lewis dies at 80

MAYFIELD VILLAGE, Ohio — Peter Lewis, who shepherded Progressive Corp. from a small-time operation to one of the largest auto insurers in the country and later became the billionaire backer of marijuana legalization, died Saturday. He was 80. Philanthropic...

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Obama, Cyrus among GQ's least influential list

LOS ANGELES — Dennis Rodman is at the top of a list no one wants to be on. He's been named GQ's No. 1 least influential celebrity of 2013. The 52-year-old former basketball player who has visited Kim Jong Un in North Korea was selected as the top pick...

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Westford teen creates prosthetic arm and hand

WESTFORD, Mass. — Shiva Nathan is a 15-year-old boy with one huge, global idea. Inside his Westford home with his father, Nanda Nathan, at his side, he puts on an electroencephalogram, or EEG, headset reader and concentrates. The device measures his...

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Meningitis victims hope for Mass. criminal charges

BOSTON — Dirk Thompson III doesn't hold out much hope that he and the 750 other victims in a nationwide meningitis outbreak will ever see much, if any, compensation for the deaths and illnesses caused by tainted steroids. He hopes to find justice another...

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