months of the year

Foreign direct investment pledged for Vietnam in the first seven months of the year has hit a record $45.3 billion, up 373 percent from the same period a year ago and surpassing the record of $21.3 billion for all of 2007, the government said Tuesday.

"Our ongoing innovation in search, ads, and apps helped drive healthy growth globally across our product lines, yielding another strong quarter for Google"

Investors knew the first three months of the year were bad for companies, but now it looks like they were downright abysmal — and that there might be more pain to come.

With the nation's banks releasing their quarterly results this week, anxiety has returned to the stock market.

J. C. Penney sharply cut its earnings forecast for the first three months of the year, blaming the tough economy, yet another sign of distress in American retailing.