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WASHINGTON (AP) — Janet Yellen tried at her first news conference as Federal Reserve chair to clarify a question that's consumed investors: When will ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A judge has tossed out an effort to win class-action status for a lawsuit accusing Google of violating the privacy terms of email...

NEW YORK (AP) — IBM is teaming up with the New York Genome Center to help fight brain cancer. The company said Wednesday that its Watson cloud computi...

NEW YORK (AP) — Higher interest rates are coming. And they are coming sooner than you think. That's the message investors took away from the Federal R...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Federal Reserve's new leader, Janet Yellen won't have to go far to bounce ideas off a fellow economist. The kitchen table wil...

DETROIT (AP) — The top executive of General Motors apologized for deaths linked to the delayed recall of 1.6 million small cars, saying the company to...

CINCINNATI (AP) — Environmental authorities and cleanup workers raced Tuesday to clean up oil in a southwest Ohio nature preserve where thousands of g...

NEW YORK (AP) — Encouraging news on the economy gave the stock market a boost on Tuesday. Stocks also rose on expectations that the conflict between R...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Janet Yellen era at the Federal Reserve begins in earnest this week with a two-day meeting, a policy statement and fresh economi...

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors issued a new recall of 1.5 million vehicles Monday, part of an effort to assure buyers that it's moving faster to fix sa...

NEW YORK (AP) — Investors were able to put aside the ongoing political turmoil in Ukraine on Monday to focus on a bit of good news on the U.S. economy...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. factory output rebounded strongly in February after harsh winter storms caused a steep drop-off in production in January. Manuf...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks were sharply higher in late-morning trading Monday, recovering from a three-week low, as investors brushed aside the ongoing po...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The windy plains of Kansas could be a treasure trove in the nation's effort to harness clean energy, but a major proposal to move win...

NEW YORK (AP) — Target Corp. has acknowledged its security software picked up on suspicious activity after a massive cyberattack was launched, but it ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The prices companies receive for their goods and services fell slightly in February, the latest sign that inflation is tame. The pro...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The for-profit college industry says it will vigorously oppose proposed regulations by the Obama administration designed to protect ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are grappling with an election-year dilemma posed by the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Wealthy party donors are funding candid...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has sued 16 big banks that set a key global interest rate, accusing them of fraud and conspiring...

Stock investors started the week worrying about China. They ended it waiting on Russia. Investors spent much of Friday monitoring developments in the ...