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The Obama administration's attempts to enact the most sweeping overhaul of financial regulations hit another obstacle Friday as Senate Banking...
When New Orleans takes on Indianapolis at the Super Bowl on Sunday, Brandon Nohara will be sprawled in front of his big-screen TV like millions of...
U.S. workers and the Obama administration finally got some good news on the job front Friday as the unemployment rate unexpectedly tumbled out of...
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NEW YORK -- A battered stock market recovered from a sharp drop in late trading Friday but still posted its fourth straight weekly drop.
Andrea Wong, the chief executive of Lifetime Networks who spent three years making over the once-frumpy cable network into a showcase for splashy...
Opera-loving philanthropist Alberto Vilar was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison by a judge who credited his giving spirit but said he wanted to...
Fashion's symbiotic relationship with the entertainment industry came into a little clearer focus this week with the announcement that Star Avenue...
Jenny Craig Inc. has agreed to end an ad campaign featuring actress Valerie Bertinelli as part of a legal settlement with Weight Watchers...
Aetna Inc. said its fourth-quarter profit fell 15% as it continued to struggle with rising medical costs that hurt its performance throughout 2009.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein is getting a $9-million stock bonus for 2009.
California's largest for-profit health insurer is moving to dramatically raise rates for customers with individual policies, setting off a furor among...
Just as Toyota dealers seemed to get a handle on the sticky-pedal problem, a new headache emerged Thursday as Prius owners began worrying about...
Electric car builder Fisker Automotive Inc. will close its Pontiac, Mich., engineering and sales center in March and move the operations to its Irvine...
California regulators, reacting to a dramatic increase in service shut-offs, ordered electric and gas utilities Thursday to make greater efforts to...
It's a well-known principle of quantum mechanics that racing stripes make a car faster. Depending on the width and color of the stripes, accessorizing...
Toyota dealers resumed selling vehicles Thursday that were pulled from the sales lot to address sudden-acceleration problems as the automaker said...
Former Bank of America Chief Executive Ken Lewis now holds the inglorious distinction of being the first top figure from a major bank to be sued by...
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said Thursday that China was likely to let its currency appreciate -- addressing a long-sought U.S. goal that...
In a surprise showing for a notoriously slow month, shoppers turned out at the nation's malls in January, spending carefully but sufficiently to...
Sales of California homes priced at $1 million or more tumbled for a fourth consecutive year in 2009, according to a report released Thursday.
Congress on Thursday began evaluating fears that the proposed combination of cable television giant Comcast Corp. and NBC Universal would further...
After holding the top spot for seven consecutive weeks, it looks like "Avatar" will reign one final time over Super Bowl weekend.
The Port of Long Beach moved forward Thursday with its plan to replace the deteriorating Gerald Desmond Bridge, releasing a draft of its revised...
Northrop Grumman Corp. reported a better-than-expected fourth-quarter profit but acknowledged that its effort to win a $35-billion government...
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