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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...

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...