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NEW YORK—The good news for the Blue Jays is that Josh Johnson says the soreness in his throwing arm is neither in his elbow nor his shoulder.
“It’s in, I guess, a good spot, if there is one,” the Jays’ towering right-hander offered on Friday, after it was announced he would miss the night’s start due […]

General Motors plans to unveil a line of revamped midsize pickup trucks later this year with gas mileage and features designed to take sales from Toyota’s Tacoma.
The trucks will replace the aging Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon. GM North America President Mark Reuss ((ROY-ss)) says they’ll be able to do 95 percent of the work […]

Asian markets were mostly higher Wednesday, following gains on Wall Street after upbeat economic data from the world’s largest economy.
Reports overnight from the U.S. showed home prices rose in January at the fastest rate since the country’s housing boom peaked in 2006 while February orders for long-lasting goods from factories were at their highest in […]

In another sign of a housing market rebound, home prices posted the biggest percentage gain in more than two years in the third quarter, according to the closely followed S&P/Case-Shiller index.
The 3.6% increase from a year earlier is more than three times the rise in the previous quarter and was the biggest […]

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is staying in his job until at least the Jan. 21 presidential inauguration to help leaders reach a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff, a top White House aide said Friday.
Geithner, 51, the last holdover from President Obama’s original economic team, has made clear he’s ready to leave […]

Netflix’s stock surged Wednesday afternoon as billionaire investor Carl Icahn revealed that his funds have acquired a 10% stake in the streaming media and rentals business.
) shares tripped two circuit breakers in their rapid rise, triggering a temporary halt in the stock. When shares resumed trading, they cooled off slightly but […]

Federal prosecutors filed additional charges Monday against five former employees of Bernie Madoff, saying that his massive scheme to defraud investors started in the 1970s, much earlier than previously alleged.
Prosecutors said that the five long-time Madoff employees — Daniel Bonventre, Annette Bongiorno, Joann Crupi, Jerome O’Hara and George Perez — were all […]

Hostess Brands, the maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread, said Friday that it would seek a court order to force a new contract on one of its unions and stave off its demise.
The announcement came after one of the company’s major unions, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, voted narrowly to accept the […]

The nation’s most dangerous job, fishing for Alaskan king crab, has not only gotten safer but it’s gotten more profitable, too.
Commercial fishing has long topped the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ list of jobs with the most fatalities — and crabbing in the Alaskan waters is by far the most lethal form of fishing. […]

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti should stay in power after next year