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WASHINGTON (AP) — The American economy shrugged off the end of a brutal winter last month, rebounding with the biggest hiring surge in two years and s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Orders to U.S. factories advanced strongly in March for a second month while demand in a key category that signals business investme...

NEW YORK (AP) — Major U.S. stock indexes ended lower on Friday as a surprisingly strong report on job gains failed to impress investors. Stocks rose i...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are inching higher in early trading Friday after the government reported that employers added more jobs than expected in A...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett's failure to beat the stock market in four of the past five years has raised the issue of whether Berkshire Hathaway...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy is emerging from hibernation after a bleak winter. Consumers are ramping up spending, businesses are ordering more ...

DETROIT (AP) — U.S. car buyers came out of hibernation in April to spend on pickup trucks and SUVs, fueling an auto sales rebound that analysts expect...

NEW YORK (AP) — Encouraging news on the U.S. economy wasn't enough to give the stock market its fourth straight day of gains. Manufacturing grew faste...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks edged lower on Thursday as investors assessed the latest round of company earnings, a survey on manufacturing and news on hirin...

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Alan Mulally, the man who transformed Ford Motor Co. from a dysfunctional money-loser to a thriving company, will retire July 1...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A government watchdog confirmed Wednesday what airline passengers are finding when they try to book a flight: Service to communities...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new report says taxpayers lost $11.2 billion on the government's bailout of General Motors. The estimate comes from a quarterly repo...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The nation's top telecommunications regulator defended his latest proposal to protect an open Internet, warning cable companies tha...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve struck an encouraging note Wednesday: It will further cut its bond purchases because the U.S. job market needs l...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow Jones industrial average closed at an all-time high Wednesday as the good narrowly outweighed the bad for the stock market. Af...

NEW YORK (AP) — The news that Wal-Mart is getting into the car insurance business begs the question: is there anything that the world's largest retail...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home price gains cooled in February from the previous year for the third month in a row, as harsh winter weather and high buyin...

NEW YORK (AP) — Whether to allow more exports of U.S. oil and natural gas has become a matter of political debate in Washington. But to economists, th...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Expect a dreary report Wednesday when the government issues its first estimate of how fast the U.S. economy grew in the January-Marc...

High lime prices giving US bartenders a hangover LOS ANGELES (AP) — Every time a bartender at trendy Los Angeles fusion eatery Luna Park squeezes a sh...