Oppenheimer Funds chief economist: US economic recovery will help PR

Jerry Webman, senior investment officer and chief economist for Oppenheimer Fund ...

PR to kill invasive iguanas, export meat

Iguanas of Puerto Rico: Your days are numbered.

Cruise bookings fall in wake of wreck

The frightful images of a sinking Italian cruise ship have scared off some cruis ...
USDA: $1.1M in grants to 5 PR farms
Issued: February 3, 2012
The U.S. Agriculture Department on Friday awarded $1.1 million to five Puer ...

Drugmakers sing same song: 2012 will be tough
Issued: February 3, 2012
For drugmakers, the golden era of the 1990s and early part of the last deca ...

Sila: Special Communities under siege
Issued: February 3, 2012
Continuing her staunch defense of the Special Communities program, former G ...

El Yunque first up for land-use revamp
Issued: February 3, 2012
El Yunque is among eight national forests around the U.S. that will be the ...

VIDEO: Madonna channels Victor Cruz
Issued: February 3, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS — Madonna won’t explicitly say who she’s rooting for, but her spot-on salsa dance in honor of the New York Giants Victor Cruz m ...

Ex-SIP drops judicial branch contract
Issued: February 3, 2012
An outside investigator brought in to probe spending in the judicial system has canceled his contract under intense pressure from a group of ...

IMC maps $22M growth plan for PR
Issued: February 2, 2012
International Meal Company (IMC) expects to add 1,200 jobs in Puerto Rico as part of a plan to open at least a dozen new restaurants on the ...

FICO selling credit reports in Spanish
Issued: February 2, 2012
NEW YORK — Credit reports are now on sale in Spanish.

Zagat: Vieques is top ‘foodie getaway’
Issued: February 2, 2012
A leading global dining survey has picked Vieques among the best places in the world for travelers “obsessed with food and dining.” ...

New US passport office taking shape
Issued: February 2, 2012
The federal government will open an office to issue U.S. passports in Puerto Rico this year, island Secretary of State Kenneth McClintock sa ...

Ex-lawmaker wants $500K bail cut
Issued: February 2, 2012
Embattled former Rep. Iván Rodríguez Traverzo is seeking a sharp reduction in the $500,000 bail that has kept him behind bars since surrende ...

GDB doubles Wall Street deal to $1B
Issued: February 2, 2012
Riding strong investor demand, the Government Development Bank doubled the size of the mid-term notes deal to $1 billion it is selling this ...

Sea Star brings new president aboard
Issued: February 2, 2012
Sea Star Line has tapped veteran shipping industry executive Peter Keller as its new president, CARIBBEAN BUSINESS learned.

Ayala promoted to VP at Crowley
Issued: February 2, 2012
Crowley Maritime Corp. has promoted José “Pache” Ayala to vice president for Puerto Rico operations. He will remain in San Juan, and will no ...

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Super Bowl ads that generate buzz after the game
Issued: February 3, 2012
NEW YORK - Companies hope you'll be gabbing about their Super Bowl ads on Monday morning. But the ultimate score is if those conversatio ...

Komen drops plans to cut Planned Parenthood grants
Issued: February 3, 2012
NEW YORK — The Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity on Friday abandoned plans to eliminate grants to Planned Parenthood. The st ...

Trump endorses Romney after a puzzling Vegas day
Issued: February 3, 2012
LAS VEGAS — With his trademark flair for spectacle, Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president Thursday on the famed Las Vegas strip — ...

US service industry growth surges in January
Issued: February 3, 2012
WASHINGTON - U.S. service companies grew at the fastest pace in 11 months in January as companies started hiring to keep up with rising dema ...

Stocks jump after strong jobs report
Issued: February 3, 2012
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks are opening sharply higher after the unemployment rate dropped to the lowest in two years.

Corporate tax haul is lowest in decades
Issued: February 3, 2012
Corporate tax receipts as a share of profits are at their lowest level in at least 40 years even as U.S. companies are booking higher profit ...

Unemployment rate hits 8.3% after hiring burst
Issued: February 3, 2012
WASHINGTON — Employers went on a hiring spree in January and drove down the unemployment rate for a fifth straight month to 8.3 percent, its ...

For Facebook, exchange choice is a matter of image
Issued: February 2, 2012
NEW YORK — When Facebook goes public in a few months, will its stock appear on the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq? Depends what its b ...

Ex-Stanford exec says financier was intimidating
Issued: February 2, 2012
HOUSTON — Jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford ran his business empire through a mix of flattery and fear, the man who was in charge of ...

Cancer charity confronts backlash over grant cuts
Issued: February 2, 2012
NEW YORK — Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the renowned breast-cancer charity, is facing an escalating backlash over its decision to halt breas ...

AOL's Huff Post to launch live streaming network
Issued: February 2, 2012
NEW YORK — AOL's Huffington Post Media Group announced Thursday that it will launch the Huffington Post Streaming Network this summer.

Feds: 'Unusual' wear on new tubes at CA nuke plant
Issued: February 2, 2012
LOS ANGELES — Federal regulators said Thursday that unusual wear has been found on hundreds of virtually new tubes that carry radioactive wa ...

Payroll tax extension talks yield slow progress
Issued: February 2, 2012
WASHINGTON — House and Senate negotiators made halting progress Thursday on legislation to extend a two percentage point cut in payroll taxe ...

Bernanke urges caution in sharp deficit cutting
Issued: February 2, 2012
WASHINGTON — Ben Bernanke is urging lawmakers to balance their desire to cut deficits with policies that could help boost the weak economy i ...

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4 killed in Egypt clashes over deadly soccer riot
Issued: February 3, 2012
CAIRO — Police fired salvos of tear gas and birdshot Friday at rock-throwing protesters in Cairo as popular anger over a deadly soccer riot ...

More leaks found at crippled Japan nuke plant
Issued: February 3, 2012
TOKYO — The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant says more radioactive water has leaked at the seaside complex.

Hackers: We intercepted FBI, Scotland Yard call
Issued: February 3, 2012
LONDON — Hackers claim to have intercepted and leaked a sensitive conference call between cybercrime investigators at the FBI and Scotland Y ...

Khamenei: Iran to aid anyone confronting Israel
Issued: February 3, 2012
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will help any nation or group that confronts the "cancer" Israel, the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader Ay ...

EU prepares for potential gas crisis
Issued: February 3, 2012
BRUSSELS — The European Union is bracing for another potential energy crisis in the dead of winter as Russian gas supplies to eight member s ...

Iran reports launch of small satellite into orbit
Issued: February 3, 2012
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran successfully launched a new small satellite into orbit early Friday, state media reported, the latest in the country' ...

Treasure beckons in sunken cruise ship
Issued: February 3, 2012
ROME — In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board the cruise ship: jewels, c ...

Egypt police, protesters clash after soccer riot
Issued: February 2, 2012
CAIRO — Anger over a deadly soccer riot erupted in fresh clashes that injured nearly 400 people Thursday as security forces fired tear gas a ...

Colombia capital tries trial ban on guns in public
Issued: February 2, 2012
BOGOTA, Colombia — Gustavo Petro was imprisoned as a rebel in the 1980s on a weapons conviction. As Bogota's new mayor, he wants to get ...

North Korea opens door to talks with South Korea
Issued: February 2, 2012
PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea is open to immediate talks with rival South Korea if Seoul responds to several preconditions for dialog ...

Debt crisis threatens slow death for Portugal
Issued: February 2, 2012
LISBON, Portugal — In a six-room Lisbon office where until last year more than a dozen people worked, engineer Joao Paulo Lopes sits alone i ...

Shell looks past weak earnings, targets US growth
Issued: February 2, 2012
AMSTERDAM — Royal Dutch Shell PLC's top executives dismissed weaker than anticipated fourth quarter earnings as a blip and said Europe&# ...

Egyptians blame military for deadly soccer riot
Issued: February 2, 2012
CAIRO — A narrow stadium exit turned into a death trap. Crowds of Egyptian soccer fans fleeing supporters of the opposing team armed with kn ...

Venezuela passes anti-terrorism law
Issued: February 1, 2012
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's congress has approved a law aimed at fighting organized crime and terrorism, though opposition lawmaker ...

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