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NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald's is fighting to hold onto customers in the U.S. — and all that snow didn't help. The world's biggest hamburger chain said Mo...

Discouraging economic news from China and Japan stoked investors' worries about a global slowdown, sending U.S. stocks lower Monday. The market pared ...

A dash of discouraging economic news from China and Japan put a damper on the U.S. stock market Monday, adding to concerns that global growth could be...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Comcast Corp. will invest hundreds of millions of dollars in California and Florida theme parks, stepping outside its core busines...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto said Thursday that he is not the creator of bitcoin, adding further mystery to the story of how th...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers stepped up hiring in February despite a blast of harsh winter weather, renewing hopes that the economy could accelera...

BOBTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Critics are raging after an energy giant offered pizza coupons to a community near a natural gas well that exploded last month, ki...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Coming off record profits and four years of revenue growth, L.L. Bean is ready to make the biggest single-year capital investme...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge has issued a $3.2 million judgment against Wells Fargo & Co. for foreclosing on a man's home after his dea...

NEW YORK (AP) — One positive report on the economy was not enough to make investors more confident. The stock market ended mixed Friday after a day of...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers increased their borrowing in January on autos and student loans but cut back on their credit card use. Consumer borrowing ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks were wavering between small gains and losses early Friday after the government reported a pickup in hiring last month as well a...

NEW YORK (AP) — Investors were looking for any reason to look past the cold weather that has hampered the U.S. economy in the last few weeks, and they...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks moved higher in early trading Thursday after the government reported that the number of people filing for unemployment benefits...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two men were found guilty of stealing an American company's secret recipe for making a chemical used to whiten products from cars...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Federal Reserve survey shows severe weather held back economic growth in much of the nation from January through early February. E...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed open to the possibility of making it harder for investors to join together to sue corporations...

HONOLULU (AP) — State tourism officials aim at luring 8.4 million travelers to the islands this year, instead of the 8.7 million targeted earlier, Dav...

NEW YORK (AP) — Exxon Mobil Corp. says it will cut capital spending by 6 percent this year and overall production will be flat. The shares fell nearly...

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...