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LONDON (AP) — U.S. sanctions targeting the president of Russia's largest oil company could complicate the operations of Western oil companies with imp...

NEW YORK (AP) — Solid earnings from a broad swath of U.S. companies pushed the stock market higher on Tuesday. Ameriprise Financial, a wealth manageme...

LONDON (AP) — Pfizer Inc. was turned down twice by fellow drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC, but the maker of Viagra and Lipitor said Monday that its proposed...

The price of U.S. oil inched slightly higher Monday but global oil fell more than 1 percent on expectations of increased exports from Libya. U.S. crud...

TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) — Toyota is moving its U.S. headquarters from California to Texas in a bid to improve communication between units now spread ove...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Just as the global economy has all but recovered from debt-fueled crises in the United States and Europe, economists have a new worr...

NEW YORK (AP) — It was a roller coaster ride for the stock market on Monday that ended with major U.S. indexes closing mostly higher. Traders were pul...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has declined to take up software maker Novell Inc.'s appeal in a long-running antitrust case against Microsoft Cor...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A wealthy Internet entrepreneur recently convicted of domestic violence has been terminated as CEO of a San Francisco online adve...

Adjustable-rate mortgages got a bad rap after the housing bust. Many homebuyers used the low initial interest rates on adjustable loans to keep paymen...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. manufacturers have grown more competitive over the past decade compared with factories in China, Brazil and most of the world's...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For three decades, the U.S. middle class enjoyed a rare financial advantage over the wealthy: lower mortgage rates. Now, even that p...

NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market fell sharply Friday, dragged down by disappointing quarterly results from Amazon and Ford. Escalating tensions betwee...

NEW YORK (AP) — Companies are finally starting to spend some of the cash they've been sitting on, and that could mean a stronger economy and more jobs...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government wants to ban sales of electronic cigarettes to minors and require approval for new products and health warnin...

DALLAS (AP) — Even with the turbulence of severe winter storms and stubbornly high fuel prices, many of the major airlines are cruising and their stoc...

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is taking aim at grocery stores and discounters like Wal-Mart with a grocery service that lets its Prime loyalty club members f...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission is set to propose new Internet rules that would allow Internet service providers to charge co...

NEW YORK (AP) — Mixed earnings from a large number of U.S. companies left the stock market without direction early Thursday, despite positive results ...

MOSCOW (AP) — The founder of Russia's leading social media network — a wunderkind often described as Russia's Mark Zuckerberg — has left his post as C...