March 16, 2010

The ratings of the United States, Britain, Germany and France are stable, but “their ‘distance-to-downgrade’ has in all cases substantially diminished,” Moody’s Investors Service said.

Action by the top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, was taken in part because of concern over civilian casualties.

With states squeezing payments to providers, patients are finding it increasingly difficult to locate doctors who will accept their coverage.

After 50 years, a tiny drug maker on Long Island has found a potentially lucrative use for its only medicine.

The deal gives Sony the rights to sell the artist’s back catalog and draw on a large vault of unheard recordings.

It appears that the federal government didn’t appreciate the significance of what it saw as it monitored the books and records of Lehman Brothers, or that officials blessed the company’s now-suspect accounting.

As pharmaceutical sales in countries like China and India overtake established markets, leading drug companies risk losing market share to local players, a study said.

To close a structural deficit, Gov. Christopher J. Christie’s budget focuses almost exclusively on cutting spending rather than raising revenue.

The Federal Reserve’s move to stop buying mortgage-backed securities shows a degree of confidence that it can eliminate that pillar of support without undermining the nation’s economic recovery.

Stephen Sondheim’s forthcoming 80th birthday was celebrated in a thrilling concert at Avery Fisher Hall.

Tony Judt’s new book is a dying man’s sense of a dying idea: the notion that the state can play a significant role in its citizens’ lives without imperiling their liberties.

Of the 2,000 bands at the annual South by Southwest Music and Media Conference this week in Austin, Tex., more than 500 are from outside the United States.