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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has handed a defeat to a coalition of retail groups that challenged as too high the Federal Reserve's cap on...

NEW YORK (AP) — Wendy's is rolling out a program that lets customers pay using their smartphones, following a similar plans unveiled by Burger King th...

NEW YORK (AP) — An early surge on the stock market evaporated Friday, as health care stocks tugged major indexes down. Biotech companies were especial...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Media General is buying fellow TV broadcaster LIN Media in a deal worth about $1.6 billion in cash and stock, the companies annou...

NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market looked ready to finish off a turbulent week with solid gains. Major U.S. indexes mostly rose in early trading Friday....

Sarah Curtis-Fawley will have to offer insurance to her workers at Pacific Pie Co. because of the health care overhaul, and the estimated $100,000 cos...

NEW YORK (AP) — Gum seems as appealing as that sticky wad on the bottom of a shoe these days. It's not that Americans still don't ever enjoy a stick o...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Supreme Court tossed out a $1.2 billion judgment against Johnson & Johnson on Thursday, reversing a lower court ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — All but one of the nation's 30 largest banks are better able to withstand a severe U.S. recession and global downturn than at any ti...

NEW YORK (AP) — Norm Lewis has been tapped to be Broadway's next Phantom in the megahit "The Phantom of the Opera," a move that makes him the first Af...

NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks plans to turn more of its cafes into a destination for beer and wine in the evenings. The coffee company says it is looking ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market bounced back on Thursday. Encouraging signs on the first day of spring that the economy is emerging from its winter s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Boeing's design and manufacture of its cutting-edge 787 jetliner is safe despite the many problems encountered since the plane's rol...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Toyota agreed to pay $1.2 billion to settle an investigation by the U.S. government, admitting that it hid information about defects...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — An industrial plant that knowingly released hundreds of tons of the carcinogen benzene into the air over a five-year span and imp...

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...