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By E. Scott Reckard
Economist Janet L. Yellen, a California-based official of the Federal Reserve, has emerged as President Obama's likely nominee to be vice chairwoman...
By Tom Petruno
"I can pay. I just don't want to." That's the unapologetic position of the "walkaways" -- homeowners who have no equity in their houses and who no...
By Hugo Martรญn
Californians, get ready for your close-up.
By Jim Puzzanghera
The Obama administration Friday said its mortgage modification program continued to make progress, with the number of homeowners receiving permanently...
By P.J. Huffstutter
U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder and a team of top federal officials on Friday pledged a sweeping examination of alleged monopolistic practices in the food...
By Claudia Eller
In a cost-saving move, Walt Disney Studios is shutting down Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers Digital studio in Marin County, which employs 450 people....
By Ken Bensinger and Ralph Vartabedian
Toyota Motor Corp. on Friday contested allegations that it withheld evidence in lawsuits, telling Congress that it has maintained "the highest...
WASHINGTON -- Retail sales posted a surprising increase in February as consumers did not let major snowstorms stop them from storming the malls. The...
NEW YORK -- Mixed economic reports held the stock market to only modest moves Friday but gains for the week were strong.
By P.J. Huffstutter
For 40 years, farmer Todd Leake and his family have battled bitter cold, hungry pests and a short growing season to coax soybeans out of their...
By David Lazarus
There's definitely an art to informing customers that you're about to smack them upside the head.
By Andrea Chang
The story line for bookstore giant Barnes & Noble Inc. is growing ever more dramatic, with falling store sales, increasingly stiff competition and a...
By Ralph Vartabedian and Ken Bensinger
As if Toyota Motor Corp. hasn't had enough trouble, the automaker is now facing a new set of interrogators: federal and local law enforcement...
By Jim Puzzanghera
Rebuffing criticism of slow action and underfunded efforts, the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said his agency acted...
By Jim Puzzanghera
Congressional attempts to pass the most sweeping overhaul of financial regulations since the Great Depression suffered a potentially devastating...
By Don Lee and David Pierson
President Obama on Thursday launched an effort to rebuild the nation's long-term economic strength by sharply boosting exports, and he got a lift from...
By Nathaniel Popper
In the months before Lehman Bros. collapsed in late 2008, setting off the global financial crisis, the investment bank used an accounting trick to...
By Stuart Pfeifer
The stock option backdating trial of former KB Home chief Bruce Karatz opened Thursday in Los Angeles with two vastly conflicting portraits of the man...
By Andrea Chang
MGA Entertainment Inc., the maker of Bratz dolls and other toys, may sell shares in an initial public offering, Chief Executive Isaac Larian said...
By Tom Petruno
Robust investor demand allowed California on Thursday to increase the size of a bond offering to $2.5 billion from $2 billion.
By Ben Fritz
Moviegoers would rather escape to "Wonderland," it appears, than visit the "Green Zone" this weekend.
By E. Scott Reckard
The average interest rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage dropped to 4.95% this week from 4.97% last week, Freddie Mac said Thursday.
By Nathaniel Popper and Ben Fritz
Reporting from New York and Los Angeles -- Welcome to Hollywood's newest version of risky business: movie derivatives.
By Ronald D. White
Some of the nation's biggest oil companies are looking at permanently reducing how much gasoline and diesel fuel they make, a move that analysts say...
By Jim Puzzanghera
Payday lenders didn't cause the economic crisis, but consumer advocates hoped their sky-high interest rates on loans would be reined in as part of a...
By Alana Semuels
For many California areas, unemployment rates moved persistently higher in January, indicating that the national economic recovery hasn't yet...
By Don Reisinger
After a long wait and more than 50,000 signatures on an online petition, cyclists will be happy to know that Google Inc. has finally added bicycle...
By Michael Hiltzik
Gina Quatrine declared that her furniture factory was a "true old-fashioned European workshop" -- which seemed a bit incongruous, given that we were...