Six years ago, only about 8 cents of every new dollar flowing into U.S.
stock funds was invested overseas. Silicon Valley and its microchip-studded stocks were the hot destination. Now, that number is hovering around 77 cents, as American investors look longingly at soaring returns in international markets….
Prosecutors have concluded their two-year investigation into the Bush administration’s firing of U.S. attorneys and will file no charges, the Justice Department said Wednesday. IXTEPEC, MEXICO — As the Mexican government condemns a new immigration law in Arizona as cruel and xenophobic, illegal migrants passing through Mexico are routinely robbed, raped and kidnapped by criminal gangs that often work alongside corrupt police, according to human rights advocates. Freewheeling American capitalism may be falling out of fashion on Wall Street, but in the western suburbs of Northern Virginia, it is driving one of the greatest home-buying sprees the region has ever seen. Roughly 1,000 flights at Chicago airports have been cancelled in the storm’s wake, which will move across the country, threatening significant accumulations around Baltimore and Washington