Oil prices were steady Thursday in Asia above $109 a barrel as investors waited for a weekly U.S. crude inventory report for evidence that slowing economic growth has cut d...

Cablevision Systems Corp. said Thursday it has finished the first phase of its wireless network buildout in New York and remains on track to complete the project in two yea...

The European Central Bank and Bank of England will likely leave interest rates unchanged on Thursday as they face mounting inflation and slowing growth.The ECB in Ju...

Get ready for another hike in copays and deductibles.A survey being released Thursday by the Mercer consulting firm found 59 percent of companies intend to keep down...

The pilots of a Spanair SA plane that crashed last month in Madrid, killing 154 people, failed to extend wing flaps that are needed to give the aircraft enough lift for tak...

Nearly every major automaker saw its U.S. sales drop in August, but many are seeing signs that the worst slump in recent history may have bottomed out.Most upbeat we...

GOOD NEWS: A limited amount of oil and gas production has been restarted in the Gulf of Mexico with growing evidence that the nation's energy complex avoided a disaster in ...

Torrential rains and the threat of tornadoes in the wake of Hurricane Gustav slowed attempts to rebuild Louisiana's broken transmission and distribution systems even as hun...

Gold prices fell for a third straight session Wednesday as the dollar muscled higher against the euro, dampening the appeal of commodities as a hedge against inflation. Sil...

Oil prices inched lower Wednesday as a stronger dollar and slowing demand for crude overshadowed an almost total shutdown of energy output in the Gulf of Mexico after the p...

A former Wall Street broker pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he and a colleague duped investors into purchasing more than $1 billion in high-risk securities by makin...

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:NYSEAmbac Financial Group Inc., up $1.58 at...

TiVo Inc. said Wednesday it will launch a new high-definition digital video recorder under an extended agreement with DirecTV Group Inc., reigniting a once-cooling relation...

Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. said Wednesday its fiscal third-quarter loss more than doubled from a year ago as the homebuilder suffered steep declines in new home contracts a...

The deflating commodities bubble is claiming its first casualties as large investment funds absorb staggering losses from bad bets that prices for oil, precious metals and ...

A former chief executive of construction firm KBR Inc. pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal bribery charges in connection with the company's natural gas operations in Nigeri...

Nearly every major automaker saw its U.S. sales drop in August, but many are seeing signs that the worst slump in recent history may have bottomed out.Most upbeat we...

Procter & Gamble Co. has acquired Nioxin Research Laboratories Inc., a manufacturer of professional scalp care products for thinning hair.P&G did not release...

Treasury prices mostly rose Wednesday as fears about the well-being of the economy dogged investors.Economic readings fanned some concerns that the economy is slowin...

Wall Street finished mixed in fickle trading Wednesday, with investors unsettled about the economy ahead of Friday's employment report and only somewhat relieved about slid...

What if locking the front door of your home while you're away were as easy as hopping on the Internet?At the CEDIA Expo in Denver this week, Ingersoll-Rand Co.'s Sch...

Wall Street traded modestly lower in uneasy trading Wednesday, with investors still unsettled about the economy ahead of Friday's employment report and only somewhat reliev...

International Internet traffic kept growing in the last year, but at a slower rate than before, and carriers more than kept pace by adding more capacity, a research firm sa...

Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday its U.S. sales fell 26.5 percent in August, as the struggling automaker's results — even worse than July's dismal figures — showed that th...

Early reports from several retailers show a sluggish start to the back-to-school season. Here is a snapshot of some of the same-store sales results announced Wednesday, a d...

Members of a union representing about 27,000 Boeing Co. aircraft assembly workers were voting Wednesday on whether to strike for an unprecedented second time in successive ...

The country is stuck in a slow-growth rut, the Federal Reserve suggested Wednesday.Higher prices for energy, food and other things are pinching people and businesses...

Federal prosecutors and regulators on Wednesday accused two former Wall Street brokers of defrauding customers by making more than $1 billion in unauthorized purchases of s...

Early reports from several retailers including J.C. Penney Co. and Kohl's Corp. confirmed on Wednesday what Wall Street had already expected: a weak start to the back-to-sc...

Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday its U.S. sales fell 26.5 percent in August, as the struggling automaker's results — even worse than July's dismal figures — showed that th...

Lender GMAC Financial Services said Wednesday it will close all of its 200 retail offices and lay off about 5,000 employees as part of plan to reduce its mortgage lending a...

With gasoline prices expected to remain uncomfortably high, many small businesses are letting some of their staffers work at home. And some owners are discovering that allo...

Ford Motor Co. says its August sales dropped more than 26 percent as U.S. economic woes and high gas prices continued to batter the auto industry.The company also do...

Facts about Macy's Inc. and Tommy Hilfiger Group as they prepare to launch an exclusive alliance covering men's and women's sportswear.Macy's Inc._Acquired Ma...

Macy's stores across the country are renovating their Tommy Hilfiger shops and expanding how much of the designer's sportswear they carry. But fans of the brand soon won't ...

Oil prices inched lower Wednesday as a stronger dollar and slowing demand for crude overshadowed an almost total shutdown of energy output in the Gulf of Mexico after the p...

Wall Street declined in skittish trading Wednesday, with investors still unsettled about the economy ahead of Friday's employment report and only somewhat relieved about sl...

The U.S. dollar was mixed against other major currencies in European trading Wednesday. Gold rose.The euro traded at $1.4450, down from $1.4518 late Tuesday in New Y...

Federal regulators on Wednesday accused two former Wall Street brokers of defrauding their customers by making more than $1 billion in unauthorized purchases of securities ...

Organic personal care products are sprouting up at more mass retail outlets. Here are some examples:_ Target expanded its beauty aisles this year to include nine nat...

One whiff of a "bath bomb" and Latoya Bembry was hooked.Friends introduced her to Lush, the company that makes the quirky natural product in options like Sex Bomb an...

AT&T Inc.'s wireless data network was down Wednesday morning in parts of the eastern U.S., according to user reports and the company.AT&T spokesman Michael C...

Agriculture futures traded mostly lower Wednesday on the Chicago Board of Trade.Wheat for September delivery rose 8 cents to $7.7475 a bushel; December corn fell 7 c...

Wall Street fluctuated Wednesday, with investors relieved about falling commodities prices but still unsettled about the uncertainty surrounding the economy.The Comm...

Stocks are modestly lower after the government said factory orders rose by more than expected in July.The report appears to be giving a bit of relief to investors co...

Being a trendsetter can be pricey. As any fashionista or gadget hound knows, the latest frocks and tech toys don't pay for themselves. But a new Web site is trying to make ...

Orders to U.S. factories rose by a larger-than-expected amount in July as demand for commercial aircraft, heavy machinery and iron and steel all posted solid gains.T...

Shares of Corning Inc. tumbled 12.6 percent to a three-year low Wednesday after the company lowered its third-quarter sales and profit guidance to reflect a bigger-than-exp...

The chief executive of NebuAd Inc., whose Web tracking technology raised a privacy backlash, has left the company to be chief financial officer at Verifone Holdings Inc., a...

Stocks declined moderately in early trading Wednesday, with investors again appearing more concerned about the weak economy than relieved about falling commodities prices.<...

Falling exports and lower household spending caused a 0.2 percent second-quarter decline in the economy of the 15 nations that share the euro currency, European Union stati...

Wall Street is down modestly in early trading, with investors cautiously awaiting a fresh snapshot of the manufacturing sector from the Commerce Department's report on fact...

General Motors Corp. said Wednesday it is extending its employee-pricing discount through the end of the month, saying the program's two-week run has been highly successful...

GOOGLE'S BROWSER: Chrome has the right bells and whistles and a few cosmetic enhancements over its main rivals, Firefox and Internet Explorer. But under the hood its perfor...

One journalist was shot and killed and another was left with a fractured skull after a beating in Russia's troubled North Caucasus, and police and co-workers said Wednesday...

Wall Street headed for a lower open Wednesday as investors' concerns about the health of the economy and financial sector again outweighed the impact of falling commodities...

Google Inc.'s new Web browser, called Chrome, does much of what a browser needs to do these days: It presents a sleek appearance, groups pages into easy-to-manage "tabs" an...

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:NYSELehman Brothers Holdings Inc., up 4 cents...

The new Web browser that Google Inc. released Tuesday is designed to expand its huge lead in the Internet search market and reduce Microsoft Corp.'s imprint on personal com...

Software company VMware Inc. said Tuesday that its executive vice president of research and development, Richard Sarwal, has resigned.Sarwal is returning to Oracle C...

In a bid to pull hesitant shoppers into their stores, retailers are slashing prices on everything from jeans to dinnerware. But those fat discounts will likely come at a bi...

The workers who assemble The Boeing Co.'s commercial planes and some of its key components prepared to vote Wednesday on the company's "best and final" contract offer, with...

The world's largest steel maker ArcelorMittal SA said Wednesday it would jointly develop a manganese mine in South Africa in a deal worth $432.5 million.Keen to secu...

Falling exports and lower household spending caused the euro economy to shrink by 0.2 percent in the second quarter, EU statistics showed Wednesday.High fuel and foo...

The request caught dairy farmer Brian Ziehm off guard: Would he devote an acre of his fields near the Vermont line this fall to grow stinkweed?"It was like, 'What th...

Wall Street headed for a slightly lower open Wednesday as investors' concerns about the health of the economy and financial sector again canceled out the impact of falling ...

The top business news from The Associated Press for the morning of Wednesday, September 3, 2008:Coca-Cola offers $2.5 bln to buy China juice makerHONG KONG (A...

Slowing sales, falling foot traffic in North American stores and penny-pinching customers combined to drag down Staples Inc.'s second-quarter profit by 16 percent, but a ma...

Oil prices extended their losses Wednesday, a day after plunging nearly $6 a barrel, as oil market traders shifted their attention from tropical weather to a stronger dolla...

Most consumers probably associate eBay Inc. more with vintage lunch boxes and low-priced electronics than with laptop bags made from recycled plastic by women in New Delhi....

State-owned Korea Development Bank has made a proposal to acquire 25 percent of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers for as much as $5.3 billion, a newspaper reported Wedne...

After Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005, at least one industry got a lift: recreational vehicle makers, who benefited from the more than $1 billion spent ...

The workers who assemble The Boeing Co.'s commercial planes and some of its key components prepared to vote Wednesday on the company's "best and final" contract offer, with...

The Coca-Cola Co., the world's biggest beverage company, moved to expand its operations in the fast-growing Chinese market Wednesday with a $2.5 billion bid for major juice...

Oil prices dipped below US$108 a barrel Wednesday as investors shifted attention to concern over slowing global demand for crude after Hurricane Gustav left oil installatio...