Gerber Scientific Incorporated

Gerber Scientific Inc. said Thursday that it expects to complete a new round of layoffs by January, as part of a plan to reduce spending by $2 million to $2.5 million. The South Windsor-based maker of automated manufacturing equipment did not say how...

The headlines last week seemed stuck in a repetitive loop that has played since summer — increasingly grim financial data were threatening Detroit, presidential politics morphed into transition politics and gay marriage was the local story that...

UConn economists are joining the ranks of forecasters projecting massive job losses as Connecticut finally starts to fall into the clutches of a national recession. The Connecticut Center of Economic Analysis at UConn will release a forecast today...

Monday: -- July consumer credit -- Earnings: Dollar Financial Corp.; Shuffle Master Inc.; Stewart Enterprises Inc. Tuesday: -- July trade balance -- Earnings: John B. Sanfilippo & Son Inc.; Syntax-Brillian Corp. Wednesday: -- Earnings: Aspen...

Q: Is there hope for my shares of Amazon.com Inc.? I wonder about that company. -- L.R., via the Internet A: As it accepts a flood of preorders for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the final installment of the famous series due out at midnight...

As the bears mauled stock prices for a second consecutive year, The Courant 100 suffered its share of flesh wounds. The two largest companies bled about $84 billion in stock market value in the 52-week period ended May 17. The Courant 100, as a whole,...