Researchers say they have found evidence that supports the idea that the emergence of agriculture in prehistory took much longer than originally thought. Until recently researchers ...

Sales of new homes dropped 10.2 percent in July from a year earlier, according to the Commerce Department. `Further Deterioration' ``There are customers out there, but they ...

The county had 1.497 million nonfarm jobs in May, down by 21,000, or 1.4%, from a year earlier, according to the state Employment Development Department.

The teen gunman who fatally shot eight people in a mall earlier this month tried to kill himself by swallowing about 30 pills nearly two years earlier, according to court records ...

The price per square foot in Sacramento, the capital of California, dropped 28 percent to $166 from a year earlier, according to a report released today by New York-based Radar ...

Sales of single-family homes and condominiums in Connecticut plummeted by more than 30 percent in August compared to a year earlier, according to a new report from The Warren Group

Meanwhile, foreclosure filings were 55 percent higher in July than a year earlier, according to RealtyTrac, an online marketplace for foreclosure properties

There were 197 bankruptcy filings in October, a 62.8 percent increase from a year earlier, according to data from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Honolulu.

Foreclosure filings rose 44 percent from a year earlier to 47,956, according to RealtyTrac. California was third after seeing a 32 decrease from August but a 36 rise from a year ...

The number of new mortgages being given to house buyers has fallen by 20% in September from a year earlier, according to Bank of England figures.

... single-family existing homes totaled 37,177 during the three-month period, a decrease of 28 percent compared to 51,310 homes sold during the same time a year earlier, according ...

The decline was most pronounced in the condo market, where the median price fell to $402,500 in October from $552,000 a year earlier, according to data released yesterday by the ...

... it ranked as the No. 5 player in the lucrative business of advising U.S. companies on mergers and acquisitions in 2007, up from a distant No. 9 five years earlier, according to ...

... quarter were also hurt by the absence of a blockbuster like "Spider-Man 3," which lifted the performance of Sony's movie division in the same period a year earlier, according to ...

Nationwide, some 233,001 homes received at least one notice from lenders last month related to overdue payments, compared with 148,425 a year earlier, according to Irvine, Calif ...

Venture capitalists arranged 571 financings totaling $7.2 billion for the third quarter, down from 651 deals totaling $7.8 billion a year earlier, according to research firm ...

Overall, Americans drove 53.2 billion fewer miles November through June than they did over the same eight-month period a year earlier, according to the highway agency's latest ...

... in the July to September 2008 period, with the global credit crunch as the backdrop for a jump in divestitures to almost 40% of total sales, up from 23% a year earlier, according ...

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Growth in China's retail sales held near an 11-year high in October, rising 22% from a year earlier, according to data released Wednesday by the National ...

... in many of California's most populous counties in February, with Southern California leading the slide with an overall drop of 17.9 percent compared to a year earlier, according to ...

Foreclosure filings rose 44 percent from a year earlier to 47,956, according to RealtyTrac. California was third after seeing a 32 decrease from August but a 36 rise from a year ...

According to a national foreclosure tracking service, foreclosures increased 4 percent from the previous month and increased 68 percent one year earlier. Nevada surpassed Colorado ...

According to a national foreclosure tracking service, foreclosures increased 3 percent from the previous month and increased of 42 percent one year earlier. Colorado, Nevada, and ...

The number of workers in Hawai'i's agricultural sector totaled 6,600 during the week of April 8-14, down 3 percent from the same week a year earlier, according to a report from the ...

Prices slumped 2.7 percent in the fourth quarter compared to the fourth quarter a year earlier, according to the report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

... in unexpected ways, including how they work with real estate agents and brokers, according ... real estate industry today bears little resemblance to the way we did business 10 years ...

For the week ending September 6 live weights were 5.5 pounds below a year earlier and carcass weights were two pounds below a year earlier. These data suggest producers have not ...

The national median sales price for existing single-family homes in June 2008 was $213,800, down 6.7 percent from a year earlier, according to NAR.

The latest round of sending American spacecraft to the moon could happen a year earlier than expected, according to NASA officials. The previous target date was 2015. The ...

Since last November, Americans have driven 53.2 billion miles less than they did over the same period a year earlier, according to the Transportation Department (http://www.dot.gov ...