By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is promoting business innovation as a building block to more jobs, part of a retooled economic message that aims to highlight advances in the private sector over expensive government programs.   With a Wisconsin energy company as a backdrop, Obama […]

BANGKOK – Oil prices hovered below $86 a barrel Friday in Asia, dragged lower by weak economic and earnings news.   Benchmark crude for March delivery was down 7 cents at $85.57 a barrel at late afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.   The contract lost […]

BANGKOK – Oil prices hovered below $86 a barrel Friday in Asia, dragged lower by weak economic and earnings news.   Benchmark crude for March delivery was down 7 cents at $85.57 a barrel at late afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.   The contract lost […]