New tool uses data based on factors including natural disasters, terrorism and economic problems to assess business risk globally.
Alcoa plans to separate its plane and car parts business from its traditional aluminium-smelting operations.
US manufacturers can’t find enough candidates: from January to June this year, the manufacturing sector averaged 68 000 unfilled jobs a month.
Five years in, the Tea Party movement is at a crossroads as it seeks wider influence.
Detroit's emergency manager Kevyn Orr has expressed confidence that the city should be able to emerge from bankruptcy before his term expires in October 2014.