Global markets hit by fears of growth slowdown

Fear is back in the market. Investors are worried about slower economic growth in China, a gloomier outlook for U.S. corporate profits and an end to easy-money policies in the United States and Europe. They're also fretting over country-specific troubles...

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Gillette’s sales clipped by furry fashion

Boston Red Sox left fielder Jonny Gomes' remarks this week that his straggly beard will be gone before the start of spring training likely was welcome news across town at Gillette's World Shaving Headquarters. The beard fashion trend — championed by...

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Commission to rule on surrounding communities

The state Gaming Commission will hear Tuesday from nine cities and towns whose petitions for surrounding community status have yet to be accepted by the three casino operators vying for two gaming licenses. Mohegan Sun, which wants to build at Suffolk...

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Care.com shares skyrocket to $24.30

Shares of Waltham-based Care.com shot up yesterday, marking a successful first day of trading for the Boston area's first tech IPO in a year and a half. Care.com shares closed at $24.30, up nearly 43 percent from the IPO price of $17 per share. Coming...

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US citizen and local filmmaker detained in Egypt

CAIRO — An American translator and an Egyptian filmmaker were detained in Cairo and have been held for three days in an undisclosed location, their lawyer said Saturday. Ahmed Hassan, a lawyer with the Hisham Mubarak Law Center, told The Associated...

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Website woes seen months before launch

State officials overseeing the Health Connector website knew as early as February 2013 — some nine months before launch — that parts of the $69 million Obamacare gateway would probably be delayed, public records obtained by the Herald last night revealed....

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The Ticker

Experts: Target hackers will be tough to find The hackers behind the recent Target data breach are likely a world away and nearly impossible to find. That's the consensus among outside cybercrime experts­ as Target, the Secret Service and the FBI continue...

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Chain targets part-timers

Target's decision to move its part-time workers from its own insurance program to Obama­care likely marks the opening of the floodgates for other com­panies to do the same, potentially pushing tens of thousands of Bay State part-timers onto government-sanctioned...

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Local life science companies flex muscles at conference

Life science com­panies — one of Massachusetts' key sectors — are coming off a week that showcased them at their strongest, according to local industry in­siders who attended the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. More than 240 biotech...

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Weekly applications for US jobless aid mostly flat

WASHINGTON — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits ticked up 1,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 326,000, a level consistent with steady job gains. The Labor Department says the four-week average, a less volatile measure, fell for...

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Greenfield hospital declares labor impasse

GREENFIELD, Mass. — Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield has declared an impasse in its 28 months of negotiations with nurses and announced it will immediately put into effect changes it has sought through contract talks. The move outraged...

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Subcompact cars fare poorly in new crash tests

DETROIT — Subcompact cars fared poorly in new crash tests performed by an insurance industry group. None of the 12 minicars tested got the highest rating of "good" from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The Chevrolet Spark was the only car...

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AP Exclusive: New regs sought for child car seats

WASHINGTON — Child car seats would for the first time have to protect children from death and injury in side-impact crashes under regulations the government is proposing, The Associated Press has learned. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...

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Maine seafood company owner pleads guilty

PORTLAND, Maine — The owner of a Maine seafood company has pleaded guilty to instructing an employee to make cash withdrawals to avoid Treasury Department reporting requirements, money used to bypass lobster coop purchasing rules. The Portland Press...

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Stocks are mixed in early trading

NEW YORK — Stocks are mixed in early trading Wednesday as investors pore over the latest batch of company earnings reports. IBM dropped after its revenue fell short of forecasts from financial analysts. Chipmaker AMD also plunged. KEEPING SCORE: The...

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Stock futures move higher before opening bell

NEW YORK — U.S. stock futures rose Tuesday as investors assessed the latest round of company earnings. Delta Air Lines climbed in premarket trading after its earnings beat analysts' forecasts. KEEPING SCORE: Dow Jones industrial average futures were...

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Group: Japan's dolphin roundup biggest in 4 years

TOKYO — Japanese fishermen have finished killing about 40 dolphins targeted for their meat as part of a larger group trapped recently in what activists say was the biggest roundup they have witnessed in the last four annual hunts. Sea Shepherd, best...

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Delta 4Q profit rises after traffic, fare gains

MINNEAPOLIS — Higher fares and growing traffic helped Delta Air Lines Inc. post a bigger-than-expected profit on Tuesday. Delta's yield — a key measure of what each passenger pays to fly one mile — rose 4 percent for the quarter. Airlines tried about...

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China seized 60,000 piracy suspects last year

BEIJING — Chinese police seized almost 60,000 suspects involved in intellectual property infringement cases with a total estimated value of 173 billion yuan ($28 billion) in 2013, state media reported Tuesday. More than 90 million tons of counterfeit...

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Materials stocks lead an early gain on Wall Street

NEW YORK — Materials companies are leading an early gain on the stock market. Dow Chemical jumped 6 percent after the hedge fund Third Point said it had taken a large stake in the company and will press for a spinoff of one of Dow's divisions. Other...

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East Timor, Australia argue over oil treaty deal

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — East Timor asked the United Nations' highest court Monday to order Australia to turn over documents and data its agents seized from the impoverished nation's lawyer last month ahead of arbitration in a multibillion-dollar treaty...

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Japan defends dolphin hunt after US criticism

TOKYO — A Japanese government spokesman defended an annual dolphin hunt Monday, after U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy tweeted that she was deeply concerned by the inhumanity of the practice. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference...

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Hyundai to sponsor Tate Modern exhibitions

LONDON — Autos will help fund art in a long-term sponsorship deal announced Monday between Hyundai Motor Co. and Britain's Tate Modern gallery. Tate director Nicholas Serota said the South Korean carmaker would fund commissions for the gallery's Turbine...

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Poland considering air transport holding company

WARSAW,Poland — The Polish government is considering creating a holding company that will own the troubled state-run LOT airline, the short-range carrier Eurolot, ground services and an airport. Treasury Minister Wlodzimierz Karpinski told Polish agency...

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German auto club under pressure in vote scandal

BERLIN — Germany's main automobile club apologized on Monday and conceded that its image as a trusted institution has taken a knock after a top official admitted to manipulating the figures in a poll on the nation's favorite car. ADAC says it is Europe's...

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AP: Borgata ends fake chip-tainted NJ poker match

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Saying they have confirmed that one or more people used "a significant number of counterfeit chips" at an Atlantic City poker tournament, state casino regulators on Saturday canceled the tainted match and ordered all prize money...

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De Blasio expands NYC paid sick leave law

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio touted an expansion of the city's paid sick leave law Friday, the first legislative accomplishment of his administration and a muscular display of the new, left-leaning government running the nation's largest...

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Tech industry: Obama's NSA reforms 'insufficient'

SAN FRANCISCO — Technology companies and industry groups took President Barack Obama's speech on U.S. surveillance as a step in the right direction, but chided him for not embracing more dramatic reforms to protect people's privacy and the economic interests...

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Chestnut Hill attracts hip Back Bay shops

Newbury Street has long been the marquee address for posh brands to make their Boston debut. But lately a stretch of Boylston Street in Chestnut Hill is giving the Back Bay a run for its money with a slew of chic retailers opening new, bigger spaces....

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Boston company Global Rescue guarding U.S. skiers at Sochi

The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association is relying on a Boston company to get its team members out of a tight spot in the event of a terrorist attack or other crisis at next month's Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. "When something does happen, it's...

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