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NEW YORK (AP) — So far, 2014 is looking like the year of the big deal. Flush with cash and high stock prices, American companies are buying up the com...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks wound up pretty much where they started after a report of modest hiring gains at U.S. businesses failed to excite investors. Th...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks opened little changed Wednesday after a survey showed that U.S. companies added slightly more jobs in February than in the prev...

NEW YORK (AP) — Target Corp. Chief Information Officer Beth Jacob is resigning effective Wednesday as the retailer overhauls its information security ...

NEW YORK (AP) — There will soon be about 1,100 fewer places to buy batteries. RadioShack said Tuesday that it plans to close up to 1,100 stores, or ab...

NEW YORK (AP) — United Airlines is getting tough on passengers with oversized carry-on bags, even sending some of them back to the ticket counter to c...

Relieved investors sent stocks sharply higher Tuesday after Russia pulled troops back from the border of Ukraine. The rally erased steep losses from M...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina regulators have cited five more Duke Energy power plants for lacking required storm water permits after a massive ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dish Network and Disney have reached a landmark deal that envisions the day when Dish will offer a Netflix-like TV service to peopl...

Relieved investors sent stocks sharply higher Tuesday after Russia pulled troops back from the border of Ukraine. The rally erased steep losses from M...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home prices rose in January after three months of declines as a tight supply of properties likely supported prices despite slow...

DETROIT (AP) — March is the month to watch for the U.S. auto industry. Sales have been slower than expected so far this year. As the spring thaw begin...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Apple, Google, Microsoft and other tech giants united in outrage last summer over the National Security Agency's unfettered spy...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A freshwater channel that separates Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas is a premier Midwestern tourist attraction and a...

NEW YORK (AP) — Russia's military advance into Ukraine rattled global markets Monday. U.S. stocks fell the most in a month and the price of crude oil ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans spent more in January, but the increase came from a surge in spending on heating bills during the harsh winter. Spending i...

NEW YORK (AP) — Global stocks fell sharply on rising tension over Russia's military advance into Ukraine and the threat of possible sanctions by Weste...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the weather warms up, so, too, will the U.S. economy. That, at least, is the prevailing view of economists, who shrugged off a ...

MIAMI (AP) — SeaWorld has filed a complaint alleging that an Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigator who probed a SeaWorld trainer'...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are ending mostly higher after the market had a brief stumble in the afternoon. The Standard & Poor's 500 index edged further i...