The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it had detained orange juice shipments from Canada after they tested positive for low levels of a banned fungicide previously found in Brazilian juice. The FDA announced earlier this month that it would begin testing foreign orange juice shipments for the presence of the fungicide carbendazim before allowing them to enter the country. On Friday, the agency said that among 80 shipments from around the world it tested so far, six from Canada and five from Brazil had tested positive. The samples that have tested positive so far had carbendazim levels of between 10 and 52 parts per billion. The Environmental Protection Agency says carbendazim levels under 80 parts per billion do not raise safety concerns.

1/27/2012 2:19:25 PM

U.S. stocks were mostly lower Friday as jittery investors digested a weaker-than-expected economic growth report and as Europe's debt crisis still loomed in the background.

1/27/2012 2:23:29 PM

It is every parents' dream that their children enjoy a better life than they have. I am not sure if that's also true for parent companies and their offspring.

1/27/2012 11:20:38 AM

The private equity world is struggling to stay in the shadows.

1/27/2012 11:11:10 AM

Are exchange-traded funds a prime culprit in one of the signature afflictions of the markets today -- the tendency of huge swaths of stocks or other assets to swing dramatically up or down at the same time? Critics are pointing their fingers at ETFs. But evidence for their nefarious role is lacking.

1/26/2012 1:23:58 PM

Netflix is the highest flying stock on the S&P 500 Thursday, but was its fourth-quarter earnings report enough to justify a 22% run up in the stock?

1/27/2012 6:29:08 AM

Portugal has come under heavy pressure in the bond market this week as investors fear the nation could be the next domino to fall in the eurozone debt crisis.

1/26/2012 1:41:33 PM

Apple nudged out oil giant Exxon Mobil early Wednesday to become the most valuable publicly-traded company in the world.

1/25/2012 3:25:18 PM

The notoriously private private equity industry can't escape the glare of the spotlight these days, but the more immediate issue facing the industry is a lack of funding.

1/24/2012 2:44:35 PM

Apple has nearly $100 billion in cash. $97.6 billion to be precise. That is a lot of iDough. Even for Warren Buffett. Perhaps it's time for Apple to, I don't know, use some of it?

1/25/2012 12:12:48 PM

Ask Siri how Apple recorded the best quarter in history for a tech company, and her answer should be: "Me."

1/24/2012 5:12:45 PM

Bond yields are slowly creeping up in the United States as the economy improves. But with a yield barely above 2%, the 10-year Treasury is still not that far above its all-time lows.

1/25/2012 11:38:24 AM

Greece is facing an increasing likelihood of default, even if creditors reach an agreement on a deal aimed at reducing the nation's massive debt load.

1/24/2012 2:37:30 PM

A record number ETFs entered the market in 2011, but the number of funds struggling to survive is also at a record high, a sign that the that hip and trendy ETF market may be reaching a tipping point.

1/23/2012 6:09:58 PM

Verizon's record iPhone sales last quarter came at a steep cost.

1/24/2012 10:04:31 AM

Debt ceiling debates! European fiscal mayhem! High unemployment! Don't let it get you down. Your portfolio may survive just fine.

7/14/2011 7:59:58 AM

Friday is shaping up as another missed opportunity to defuse the European debt crisis.

7/14/2011 5:38:34 AM

Treasuries sold off Tuesday in the wake of better-than-expected retail sales and manufacturing data, pushing the benchmark 10-year yield to its highest level since late May.

6/14/2011 3:20:54 PM

The quarterly celebration known as earnings season gets underway this week, and investors are eager to see how a resurgent Corporate America is coping with rising energy and commodity prices.

4/11/2011 4:27:01 PM

The dollar strengthened against the Japanese yen Thursday ahead of a conference call of G-7 finance ministers that might be the first step toward intervention by Japanese authorities in currency markets.

3/17/2011 3:51:19 PM