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Asian stocks plunged Friday after discouraging U.S. economic reports unnerved investors already worried about the stability of the 17-country eurozone.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 plummeted 2.4 percent to 8,660.23, as a strengthening yen battered the country’s behemoth export sector.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 2.1 percent to 18,802.45 and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 dropped 2.2 percent to 4,064.40.
South Korea’s […]

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Shares of MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. tumbled 25 percent so far today after the O’Fallon, Mo.-based company posted a huge loss due to dropping sales.
After markets closed on Wednesday, MEMC reported reported a $92 million net loss for the first quarter on continued erosion of demand and pricing in semiconductor and solar industries.
As of 1:35 […]

The smoldering debate over European austerity flared hotter Tuesday as the left-wing politician trying to form a new Greek government declared that his country is no longer bound by its pledges to impose crippling cutbacks in return for rescue loans.
The comments by Alexis Tsipras flew in the face of EU leaders’ insistence on fiscal discipline […]

A fire caused by explosions in one of the world’s largest petrochemical industrial estates have killed 12 and injured more than 100 people in eastern Thailand.
The Saturday blaze forced an evacuation of workers and more than 1,000 residents near the Map Ta Phut industrial estate, Thailand’s largest industrial park, in Rayong province, 180 kilometers (110 […]

Say-on-pay votes are usually routine, but when they’re not they bring a potential for controversy and embarrassment that most executives are facing for the first time.
Just ask the folks at Aegion. The pipe repair company, based in Chesterfield, got 99 percent shareholder approval for its pay practices last year. This year, ISS, a leading governance […]

Four elections this weekend have the potential to reshape the European political map and show how the response to the financial crisis remains hostage to the whims of voters on both sides of the region

ST. LOUIS • The Rams’ plan to renovate the Edward Jones Dome is signed, sealed, delivered — but not yours to see.
The Rams and the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission, the public agency that operates the Dome, are not releasing the team’s proposal, even though taxpayers would likely fund the bulk of the improvements.
Officials […]

Organizers say Beijing has forced the cancellation of a conference on legal protection for private industry amid heightened sensitivity over the country’s biggest political scandal in years.
A leading Beijing lawyer said legal authorities in the capital called him Saturday to demand it be called off. The conference had been scheduled for Saturday and Sunday in […]

Less than a year after Arch Coal Inc. paid $3.5 billion for rival International Coal Group Inc., the Creve Coeur-based company is shopping some of its mines, Bloomberg News reported today.
The report, citing unnamed sources, said Arch Coal could raise $600 million or more by selling several mines that produce thermal coal, a fuel burned […]