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NEW YORK -- Industrial stocks stumbled Friday after China said it would take more steps to keep its economy from growing too fast.
Microsoft Corp. is expected to announce a major revamp of its phone software Monday in an attempt to regain momentum in a crucial market where it...
Kroger Co. and Shell Oil are combining forces to offer gas discounts to grocery shoppers at Shell stations.
Retail sales posted a better-than-expected increase in January, a welcome development that could mean stronger economic growth in coming months.
By Henry Chu
It's not hard to find some smug smiles in Britain these days as the rest of Europe grapples with a debt crisis that has cast doubt on the future of...
By Jerry Hirsch and Stuart Pfeifer
Toyota Motor Corp.'s massive recalls for acceleration and braking problems are creating a huge legal liability for the company -- and Toyota owners...
By Noam Levey
As the nation struggled last year with rising healthcare costs and a recession, the five largest health insurance companies racked up combined profits...
By Dan Neil
Snow is a beautiful thing.
By Christi Parsons and Janet Hook
The Senate's top leader on Thursday abruptly scaled back the size of a job-creation bill from $85 billion to $15 billion, fearing that even with...
By Nicholas Riccardi
Before his wife's Prius suddenly accelerated uncontrollably to 90 miles per hour on a mountain highway, you'd have been hard-pressed to find a bigger...
By Nicole Santa Cruz
Food trucks aren't a new thing to Eric Rivera. But when the native Angeleno heard of a new mobile food court opening downtown, he drove all the way...
By Claudia Eller, Dawn C. Chmielewski and Richard Verrier
In a move that begins to redraw the way movies are distributed, the Walt Disney Co. plans to release the film "Alice In Wonderland" on DVD only...
By Duke Helfand
The parent of beleaguered Anthem Blue Cross offered a spirited defense Thursday of large premium increases for customers with individual health...
By Jim Puzzanghera
Less than a week after declaring an impasse in bipartisan negotiations to overhaul U.S. financial regulations, Senate Banking Committee Chairman...
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles
Federal healthcare benefits are going unclaimed by an estimated 17,000 Californians whose jobs were moved overseas or retirees whose pensions are...
By P.J. Huffstutter
In a move that is sure to have the agriculture industry grimacing and labor-rights advocates cheering, the Labor Department is reversing a Bush...
By Ben Fritz
On Valentine's Day weekend, moviegoers are set to fall in love with an underdog on what's expected to be a packed weekend at theaters.
By Meg James
Cost-cutting and robust holiday-season sales of "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" and "Star Trek" DVDs propelled Viacom Inc. to a fourfold...
By E. Scott Reckard
Average interest rates for traditional 30-year fixed mortgages have fallen below 5% again, Freddie Mac said Thursday.
By Alejandro Lazo
Prices and sales of previously occupied U.S. homes improved during the last three months of last year as low interest rates and a federal tax credit...
By Jerry Hirsch
Ford Motor Co. could replace Toyota Motor Corp. as the second-biggest seller of autos in the United States this year as the string of massive...
By David Pierson
The frigid morning was still blanketed in darkness, but Nie Xiaojuan was awake and holding tightly her place in line. She had just spent her fifth...
By Jessica Guynn and Tiffany Hsu
In an ambitious bid to revolutionize how consumers use the Internet, technology giant Google Inc. says it will build a network that would be 100 times...
By Meg James
For television giant NBC Universal, the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, is shaping up to be a bumpy downhill ride.