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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Nearly two years after space shuttle Atlantis blasted off for the last time, NASA on Thur...
(Reuters) - Tornadoes that struck the United States from May 18 to May 20 caused between $2 billion to $5 billion of ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Public backlash against deadly overseas drone strikes may undermine promising uses of such technology ...
(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said it is buying blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, giving the struggling Internet pio...
Comedian Sinbad has declared himself bankrupt with more than $10 million in debts, according to a report.The "Jingle...
By David Milliken and Leika KiharaAYLESBURY, England (Reuters) - The United States warned Japan on Friday to stick to the rul...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employment rose more than expected in April and hiring was much stronger than previously thought in th...
By Doug Palmer and Richard CowanWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday approved a Senate plan to ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Travelers waited more than an hour for flights in New York and experienced delays at other U.S. airports...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - EBay Inc on Wednesday gave a disappointing earnings forecast for the second quarter and said Europe...
LONDON (Reuters) - Gold dropped as much as 6.3 percent on Monday to below $1,400 per ounce for the first time since March...
(Reuters) - Dish Network Corp, the No. 2 U.S. satellite television provider, offered to buy Sprint Nextel Corp for $25.5 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday proposed a budget that sharply trims the U.S. deficit over three years by...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy said on Monday it will deploy for the first time a laser weapon on one of its ships that...
MADRID/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Chinese tourists have overtaken Germans as the world's biggest-spending travelers after a de...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co Chairman Ray Lane, who has come under fire from shareholders for his role in the...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will offer cuts to Social Security and other entitlement programs in a budget p...
(Reuters) - The New York Yankees are Major League Baseball's (MLB) most valuable team for a 16th consecutive year, coming...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shipments of tablets running Google Inc's Android will overtake the iPad this year for the firs...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A judge on Monday invalidated New York City's plan to ban large sugary drinks from restaurants, movi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans commuting by public transportation rose to the second highest level on record ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers stepped up hiring in February, adding a greater-than-expected 236,000 workers to their ...
DETROIT (Reuters) - Detroit Mayor Dave Bing on Wednesday turned down an invitation to bid on hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation easily passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday to avert another partisan budget b...
(Reuters) - News Corp introduced a long-rumored national cable television sports channel, Fox Sports 1, on Tuesday, aiming to...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Dow rose to record highs on Tuesday, breaking through levels last seen in 2007 as investors extended...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The company behind the "Girls Gone Wild" video series featuring scantily clad young women d...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jack Lew as President Barack Obama's new Treasury secretary...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sony Corp said it will launch its next-generation PlayStation this year, hoping its first video game con...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service, desperate and almost broke, is looking to the wallets of younger Americans fo...
(Reuters) - The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) sent letters to the mayors of 35 American cities on Tuesday to gauge t...
(Reuters) - Sales tax from Internet commerce, a prize pursued for years by U.S. state governments, is starting to arrive in C...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will make a fresh push on Tuesday to force congressional Republicans to make co...
(Reuters) - Maker's Mark said it was taking back a decision to reduce the alcohol content in its bourbon because of a lar...
(Reuters) - Facebook said on Friday that it been the target of a series of attacks by an unidentified hacker group, but it ha...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The boards of AMR Corp and US Airways Group Inc separately met on Wednesday to approve a merger that w...
Lindsay Lohan has been served with a foreclosure notice as U.S. bank bosses prepare to repossess the New York home where she ...
(Reuters) - U.S. power company Entergy Corp said Friday it has traced the cause of Sunday's Super Bowl power outage to an...
(Reuters) - Michael Dell will take computer company Dell Inc private in a $24.4 billion deal that marks the biggest lever...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Research In Motion Ltd unveiled a long-delayed line of smartphones on Wednesday it says will put the com...
Due to appear in court today or risk an arrest warrant, Lindsay Lohan and mom Dina hopped on a late flight to Los Angeles las...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp will recall nearly 1.3 million cars globally for two separate defects, including 752,000 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell to its lowest si...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A measure to extend the U.S. debt limit for nearly four months moved closer on Tuesday to a vote and t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats for the first time in more than three years will pass a budget, a senior Democratic l...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday rejected any negotiation with Republicans over the most pressing U.S....
(Reuters) - General Motors Corp's Cadillac ATS, a new compact sedan aimed at the popular BMW 3 Series, was named 2013 Nor...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than five years after the housing market collapsed, the U.S. government's newly created consu...
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American International Group Inc, the insurer rescued by the U.S. government in 2008, said on...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employers kept their pace of hiring virtually steady in December, falling short of the levels needed t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans looked ahead on Wednesday toward the next round o...
(Reuters) - Apple Inc has started testing a new iPhone and the next version of its iOS software, news website The Next Web re...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress approved a rare tax increase on Tuesday that will hit the nation's wealthiest ho...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress comes back on Monday without a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" and only a...
(Reuters) - The 2012 holiday season may have been the worst for retailers since the 2008 financial crisis, with sales growth ...
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc remained the best website for shopping online while JC Penney Co Inc suffered the largest drop in ...
WASHINGTON/HONOLULU (Reuters) - Efforts to prevent the U.S. economy from going over a "fiscal cliff" stirred back t...
MARTINSBURG, West Virginia (Reuters) - The brave new world for U.S. retailers can be found in small cities like Martinsburg, ...
LONDON (Reuters) - He has the most-watched video in Youtube history, become a pop sensation with a horse-riding dance craze t...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Instagram, the popular photo-sharing service owned by Facebook Inc, said on Tuesday it has "no...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After making major concessions on long-held "fiscal cliff" positions, President Barack Obama...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner held a "frank" face...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the pace of talks quickened to avert the "fiscal cliff" of steep tax hikes and spending c...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's inauguration committee is accepting corporate donations to help fund the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employment grew faster than expected in November, but a drop in the unemployment rate to nearly a four...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in Congress and President Barack Obama consumed much of Wednesday talking up their positio...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will renew his case for tax hikes on wealthy Americans to avert a year-end fisc...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans proposed steep spending cuts on Monday but gave no ground on President Barack Obama's ...
DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co wants to place its lagging Lincoln nameplate back on the tips of buyers' tongues with a...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pushed Republicans on Sunday to offer specific ideas to cut the de...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Retailers moving into old downtown buildings, an abundance of freshly planted greenspaces, and a strea...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican unity against raising tax rates for the wealthy began to show cracks on Wednesday after a c...
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Early success for the iPhone 5 smartphone has helped Apple to overtake Google's Android software in ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Monday called on President Barack Obama to detail long-term spendi...
(Reuters) - New York state and New Jersey need at least $71.3 billion to recover from the devastation wrought by Supersto...
"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling's former Scottish home has sold for more than $3.2 million after just th...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Black Friday retail sales online this year topped $1 billion for the first time ever as more co...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A White House report says that if that Congress allows taxes to go up on middle-class families, consum...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers have made little progress in the past 10 days toward a compromise to avoid the harsh ta...
CHICAGO/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online shopping has grown sharply so far this holiday shopping season after U.S. retailers ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The estate of "The Lord of the Rings" author J.R.R. Tolkien and publisher HarperCollins hav...
(Reuters) - Five U.S. banks have provided about $22 billion in mortgage relief to customers under a deal to settle borrow...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading U.S. lawmakers expressed confidence on Sunday that they could reach a deal to avert the "...
(Reuters) - The latest "Call of Duty" videogame had sales of more than $500 million in the first 24 hours of it...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday is expected to be grilled about negotiations to avert a looming &q...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday invited congressional leaders to the White House to start negotiating...
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Apple Inc slid almost 4 percent on Wednesday to a five-month low as investors gr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government said on Monday it had ordered the suspension of some housing foreclosures in areas hit ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and two other executives at the social network...
(Reuters) - As rail, transit, airline and port workers dug through debris, dealt with power outages and assessed damage on Tu...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co agreed to buy filmmaker George Lucas's Lucasfilm Ltd and its "Star Wars"...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy will likely cause financial headaches for U.S. airlines that canceled more than 7,000 fl...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Consumers will have to dig deeper into their pockets next year to pay for costlier healthcare, more expe...
SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Apple Inc took the wraps off an 8-inch tablet on Tuesday in its biggest product move since the debut of ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The most likely book readers in the United States are high-school students, college-age adults and peo...
(Reuters) - Consumers plan to spend an average of $749.51 on gifts, decorations and other holiday items this season, a me...
(Reuters) - Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos confirmed on Thursday that the online retailer sells its Kindle e-reader "...
(Reuters) - Foreclosure filings on U.S. homes in September fell to their lowest level in five years, but some states are stil...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. unemployment rate dropped to a near four-year low of 7.8 percent in September, a potential bo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fears of government austerity likely kept U.S. job gains modest and the unemployment rate elevated in ...
(Reuters) - Social media company Facebook Inc said on Thursday it reached the 1 billion active monthly users threshold last m...
(Reuters) - U.S. retail sales should rise 4.1 percent this holiday season, slower growth than in the past two years as mixed ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc, stung by doubts that advertising on the social network delivers enough bang for the b...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook apologized Friday to customers frustrated with glaring errors in...
(Reuters) - Gasoline prices in the United States dropped four-tenths of a cent over the past two weeks as crude oil prices fe...
By Mary WisniewskiCHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago teachers will vote October 2 on whether to approve a contract with the nation&#...
(Reuters) - Major League Baseball is nearing long-term television deals with two broadcasters that will help double its TV re...
(Reuters) - Apple Inc booked orders for over two million iPhone 5 models in the first 24 hours, reflecting a higher-than-expe...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp showed off hybrid tablets and ultrabook laptops with voice and gesture recognition techn...
(Reuters) - The next generation iPhone 5, which Apple Inc. plans to release this week, could not only boost the tech giant...
By Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jobs growth slowed sharply in August, setting the stage for the Federal Reserve to pu...
By Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jobs growth slowed sharply in August, setting the stage for the Federal Reserve to pu...
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie accused Democrats of refusing to tell Americans the truth about...
SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - Apple Inc. scored a sweeping legal victory over Samsung on Friday as a U.S. jury found the K...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican Party and presidential candidate Mitt Romney have almost $60 million more in the ba...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. consumer sentiment improved in early August to the highest in three months as sales at retailers an...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is "dusting off old plans" for a potential release of oil reserves to dampen...
By Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Consumer prices were flat in July for a second straight month and the year-over-year ...
By Ben KlaymanDETROIT (Reuters) - It's been more than half a century since some of the first concept cars boasting self-d...
ROME/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Global alarm over a potential repeat of the 2008 food crisis escalated after data showed food prices...
By Leah SchnurrNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. companies hired more workers than expected in July, but continued weakness in the ma...
By Paul Carrel and Terhi KinnunenFRANKFURT/HELSINKI (Reuters) - The United States raised pressure on euro zone leaders to tak...
By Bob BurgdorferCHICAGO (Reuters) - Alarm grew over the unrelenting Midwest drought on Tuesday, as one of the top corporate ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mail industry companies are concerned about a looming default by the Postal Service on a $5.5 bill...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. economic growth slowed as expected in the second quarter as consumers spent at their slowest pace...
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron urged global business leaders gathered in London on Thursday ahead of...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc's biggest success has become its biggest risk factor.The iPhone revolutionized the sm...
PORTLAND (Reuters) - President Barack Obama accused Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday of misrepresenting a comment he made ab...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration unveiled a form on Tuesday to help students compare college financial aid off...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc faces an unusual phenomenon when reporting earnings this time around: low expectations.Fe...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Grain prices are soaring as the Midwest corn belt suffers its worst drought since 1956, but that doesn&#...
(Reuters) - New Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's compensation package could total more than $70 million in salar...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Silver SpongeBob SquarePants coins minted by a private company in New Zealand were among the assets seize...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - With 24 restaurants around the world, 11 Michelin stars, numerous cookbooks, and TV shows, Gordon Ramsay...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, trying to deflect criticism of his lucrative past caree...
(Reuters) - Consumers have caught a break from the slowing economy as gasoline prices extended their steep three-month declin...
(Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co, the biggest U.S. bank, said it had generated $4.4 billion of credit trading losses in it...
Whether it's a Gotye song or not, this is a situation everyone can relate to!
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Amtrak announced a $151 billion improvement plan on Monday that includes 37-minute trips from Ne...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will call for a one-year extension of Bush-era tax cuts for families earning le...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers hired at a dismal pace in June, raising pressure on the Federal Reserve to do more to b...
DETROIT/SAN FRANCISO (Reuters) - General Motors Co and Facebook Inc are discussing the return of the U.S. automaker as a paid...
(Reuters) - One night last spring, David Hall returned home to his studio apartment outside Boston to learn that his monthly ...
MILAN (Reuters) - Sergio Pininfarina, whose family company designed almost every Ferrari since the 1950s and whose name is st...
(Reuters) - AT&T Inc said AMC Networks is seeking an "excessive rate increase" to renew its U-verse TV contract, wh...
State and federal laws enacted to protect homeowners from eviction in the wake of the 2008 housing crash may be extending the...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc named Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg a director on Monday, elevating the firs...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donations to a fundraising website for a grandmother bullied by middle-school students on a bus reached ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - One hundred celebrities backed a Greenpeace campaign against oil drilling and unsustainable fishin...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Internal Revenue Service is planning a "comprehensive review" of its embattled whistleblow...
(Reuters) - Motorists will travel in record numbers for the Independence Day holiday this year, encouraged by cheaper gasolin...
By Lisa Lambert(Reuters) - Jobless rates in 49 out of the 50 U.S. states dropped in May from a year earlier, the Labor Depart...
By Tarmo VirkiPARIS (Reuters) - Instead of just "liking" - why don't you call?A simple proposition like this co...
By Leslie SnadowskyNEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A jury ruled on Thursday in favor of actor Kevin Costner in a lawsuit in which fel...
By Eva Kuehnen and Sven EgenterFRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - Central banks from Tokyo to London checked their ammunition on Fr...
(Reuters) - Time Inc's stable of 20 magazines, including Sports Illustrated and People, are now available for subscriptio...
By Edward KrudyNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose on Thursday as Wall Street continued its roller coaster ride ahead of cl...
This 2-year-old little girl knows every make of car her father quizzes her on, and she's still 16 years away from driving...
By Jason LangeWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Consumer prices fell in May by the most in more than three years as households paid less...
By Sinead CruiseLONDON (Reuters) - The super-rich investors responsible for London's prime real estate bubble are adding ...
By Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Retail sales fell for a second straight month in May and wholesale prices dropped by ...
(Reuters) - Social networking website LinkedIn Corp said it will provide an additional layer of online security to its member...
By Gerry ShihSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter Inc aired its first TV ads to tout its advertising potential on Sunday during ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Radio host Glenn Beck has signed a $100 million deal with syndicator Premiere Networks Inc to con...
When Apple Inc kicks off its annual conference for software developers on Monday, all the power players in the Apple universe...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Half the world will have access to 4G mobile networks by 2017 providing the high-speed Internet access ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co, owner of the ABC broadcast network and a suite of cable channels, will stop accepting...
(Reuters) - Actors Kevin Costner and Stephen Baldwin opened a real-life legal drama on Monday as jury selection began in a tr...
(Reuters) - The value of hotel deals for the first five months of 2012 came to $5.1 billion, down from $6.4 billion a...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Job growth in May was the weakest in a year and employers added far fewer jobs in the prior two months...
Illinois StateRepresentative, Mike Bost, angrily screams and throws paperson the House floor after being expected to vote on ...
GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - The jury deliberating in the criminal trial of former U.S. Senator John Edwards has re...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The cost of healthcare services is expected to rise 7.5 percent in 2013, more than three times the pro...
RANCHOS PALOS VERDES, California (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook said technology for televisions was of "...
SEOUL/LONDON (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics launched its top-of-the-range Galaxy S3 smartphone in Europe on Tuesday, aiming ...
Sophia Grace and Rosie are back, and this time they're giving us an exclusive lookat the new "Cars Land" in Dis...
(Reuters) - Claims by four of Wall Street's main market makers against Nasdaq over Facebook's botched IPO are likely ...
PARIS (Reuters) - The meteoric rise of a natural, healthy alternative to sugar - a holy grail for the food industry - might j...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pace of sales for existing homes in April rose to its fastest in nearly two years and a falloff in...
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - The first shops could throw open their doors in the redeveloped World Trade Center by March 2015, Austr...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook's lackluster initial public offering performance is a black eye for many on Wall Stree...
(Reuters) - ATLANTA - When he entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination in May 2011, Newt Gingrich was the ...
ROME (Reuters) - A proposal to levy a tax on cats and dogs that stunned Italy on Friday turned out to be all bark and no bite...
By Alexei OreskovicSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc shares rose less than expected on their first day of trade on Frida...
(Reuters) - Kraft Foods said on Friday it lowered prices on many of its U.S. coffees, including its flagship brand Maxwell Ho...
By Alexei OreskovicNEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc shares opened 11 percent higher on Friday, after the pione...
By A. Ananthalakshmi(Reuters) - Silicon Valley startup Pinterest raised $100 million from a group led by Japanese online ...
(Reuters) - Adidas AG has sued to stop a U.S. sporting goods retailer and a skateboarding equipment maker from selling sneake...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House, following a trading loss of more than $2 billion by JPMorgan, wants to ensure a t...
(Reuters) - Personal income tax collections in states in April might have grown an average of more than 7 percent, but for so...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Jennifer Anderson's family could no longer afford their mortgage and lost their home, she expec...
DETROIT/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - General Motors Co said on Tuesday it will stop advertising on Facebook, even as the social ...
(Reuters) - The Florida Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday in a landmark lawsuit that could undo hundreds of thousands...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives on Monday will fire their first shots of the next deficit-...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employers cut back on hiring in April and more people stopped looking for work, dimming hopes the econ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - United Airlines is putting the finishing touches on an order for at least 100 Boeing Co 737 narrowbody...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The second largest U.S. public pension fund said on Thursday it had sued current and former executi...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood may be seeing a turnaround in a seven-year decline of home video sales, thanks to double-di...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Forty New York City cultural institutions and historic sites will compete for millions of dollars in gra...
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sought on Wednesday to reassure Americans that the Obama adm...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New signs of lower U.S. gas prices could give a boost to President Barack Obama's re-election hope...
After spending three years at her company this woman decides it's time to resign,through song.
(Reuters) - Starbucks Corp said on its blog on Thursday that it will stop using a natural, government-approved coloring made ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama, whose political fortunes are threatened by rising gasoline prices, propos...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans shrugged off high gasoline prices in March and spent more strongly than expected, suggesting...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy is in a better position to deal with high gasoline prices, Treasury Secretary Timothy...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The relentless decline in home prices is nearing an end and prices should rise for the first time in s...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. economic activity kept growing moderately in the late winter months but rising energy prices were...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With many students eagerly waiting to find out which college they will be attending in the fall, the U...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Google Inc's Android mobile operating system (OS) was the top smartphone platform in China last year...
By Patricia ZengerleGETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - U.S. conservative Rick Santorum dropped out of his presidential camp...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's healthcare law could sharply exceed its cost-savings targets and add up t...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook will pay $1 billion in cash and stock for Instagram, a 2-year-old photo-sharing applic...
VICTORIA, Texas (Reuters) - It hasn't been long since Caterpillar Inc <CAT.N> looked like the typical resident of t...
(Reuters) - Any U.S. corporate executives who think they can use the Jobs Act's relaxed rules for public listing to cut c...
GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio (Reuters) - Half a decade into the deepest U.S. housing crisis since the 1930s, many Americans are hop...
James Bond has become a beer man - 007 will swap his trademark Martini tipple for a big brew in new film "Skyfall."...
(Reuters) - Auto sales rose about 13 percent in March as consumers energized by an improving job market replaced aging vehicl...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Banking and keeping track of finances, shopping and searching for jobs are the main tasks of Internet us...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The pace of growth in manufacturing picked up last month, even as measures of new orders and exports eas...
DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. auto sales are expected to continue at a strong pace in March, capping the best quarter in four year...
(Reuters) - For all the derision Republican presidential hopefuls have heaped on the Federal Reserve, a November win by lead ...
By Ronald Grover and Sue ZeidlerLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A group spear-headed by former basketball great Earvin "Magic&qu...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States rose 11.49 cents over the past two weeks as profi...
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen has donated an additional $300 million to a foundation aimed at expandin...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Home sales fell in February, but upward revisions to the prior month's pace and the first yearly i...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp opened the first store in its new Evolution Fresh juice bar chain on Monday, its bigge...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The owners of the New York Mets agreed to pay $162 million to settle a lawsuit by the trustee seekin...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co shares fell 1 percent in after hour trading on Monday after the company said it expect...
(Reuters) - Oprah Winfrey's Network, OWN, the iconic talk show host's 15-month old cable network, has laid off 30 sta...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc, the world's most valuable company, will discuss on Monday what it plans to do with i...
HONG KONG/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Apple's new iPad proved to be another hot-seller on Friday, with hundreds queuing at stores ...
(Reuters) - Jack up checking fees for bank customers who don't use direct deposit regularly. Replace tellers with self-se...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A first round of tests showed no evidence that water at 11 homes in a small town in Pennsylvania near ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Part of the National Mall near the Washington Monument may be sinking at a faster rate than expected, ...
SYDNEY/SANFRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc's new iPad went on sale in Australia early on Friday, greeted by a throng of fa...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of Americans receiving delinquency notices on their homes rose in February from January, whil...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron discussed the possibility of releasing...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc sued Facebook Inc over 10 patents that include methods and systems for advertising on the...
DETROIT (Reuters) - A $100,000-plus Fisker Automotive luxury sports car died during Consumer Reports speed testing this w...
DETROIT (Reuters) - Chrysler Group LLC's top executive declined a salary and bonus for a second straight year in 2011, wh...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc took the wraps off a faster 4G-equipped iPad on Wednesday, hoping the latest version of i...
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc is betting a 4G-equipped iPad will tempt more U.S. consumers to pay extra to wat...
Mercedes-Benz creates an "invisible" car to promote the company's new"invisible" environmental impact...
By Georgina ProdhanBARCELONA (Reuters) - For Facebook it must look like a no-brainer -- exploit its huge consumer loyalty and...
(REUTERS) - Twitter users are about to become major marketing fodder, as two research companies get set to release informatio...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc is hosting a media event next Wednesday, where it is expected to unveil a faster, better-...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Dow closed above 13,000 for the first time since 2008 on Tuesday and the S&P 500 also hit a mileston...
(Reuters) - The average U.S. price of gasoline jumped 18 cents a gallon in the past two weeks due to rising costs of crude oi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Could history repeat itself? That is a question uppermost in the minds of many Americans as they waril...
(Reuters) - If you knew you would be around to blow out the candles at your 100th birthday party, would that change how you m...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign regularly rips Republican presidential frontrunner M...
(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc won over shoppers during the holiday season, with its Walmart U.S. division posting a 1.5 per...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers sealed a 130-billion-euro ($172 billion) bailout for Greece on Tuesday t...
(Reuters) - The trustee seeking money for Bernard Madoff's victims filed two appeals on Thursday to reverse judges' r...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California's economy, the biggest in the United States and the ninth-largest in the world, will s...
By Alister Bull and Laura MacInnisWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called on Monday for new spending to boost gr...
BUENA PARK, California (Reuters) - When they saw the house on El Dorado Drive in this Los Angeles suburb being painted a star...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co plans to hire 5,000 U.S. military veterans over the next five years and to invest ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc plans to introduce its latest iPad tablet at an event in the first week in March, the web...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The second round of bids for the highly sought after Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team is due around ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five big U.S. banks accused of abusive mortgage practices have agreed to a $25 billion government ...
(Reuters) - PepsiCo Inc expects to cut 8,700 jobs as part of a plan to save an extra $1.5 billion over the next three yea...
YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co is on track to be the most profitable of Japan's three big automakers this ye...
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Is what is good for Chrysler good for America?The auto maker courted controversy and won kudos for a tw...
By Edward KrudyNEW YORK (Reuters) - A surge in hiring in the world's largest economy last month drove the Nasdaq to an 11...
By Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The economy created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unempl...
By Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON(Reuters) - U.S. employment growth probably slowed in January as messengers hired during the busy ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook unveiled plans for the biggest ever Internet IPO that could raise as much as $10 billi...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Working mom Jessica Alba is adding entrepreneur to her many titles, shifting from movie star to busin...
DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. automaker Chrysler Group LLC swung to a full-year net income of $183 million on Wednesday, and m...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stephen Colbert's U.S. presidential aspirations may not be serious, but his fundraising is. The la...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co slashed its annual profit guidance to the lowest level in three years as it counted the cost...
(Reuters) - Facebook's initial public offering is likely to set a new standard for how low investment banks are willing t...
TAMPA, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released tax records on Tuesday indicating h...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry dropped out of the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination on T...
(Reuters) - Eastman Kodak Co, which invented the hand-held camera and helped bring the world the first pictures from the moon...
WASHINGTON/CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - The Obama Administration rejected the Keystone oil pipeline on Wednesday, a move that...
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney acknowledged Tuesday that his income tax rate is "probab...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama formally notified Congress on Thursday that he plans a $1.2 trillion increa...
(Reuters) - Twinkies and Wonder Bread maker Hostess Brands Inc filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time in less th...
(Reuters) - Jim and Celeste Durkin thought when they began investing six years ago in Illinois state's prepaid college saving...
Lansing, Michigan (Reuters) - The struggling U.S. city of Detroit is on track to run out of money in May instead of April aft...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. healthcare spending barely rose in 2010 from record-low recession levels, as high unemployment an...
Detroit (Reuters) - Bill Perkins, a Detroit-area car dealer, has ample reason to raise a glass in the early days of January.P...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employment grew solidly last month and the jobless rate dropped to a near three-year low of 8.5 percen...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Manufacturing grew at its fastest pace in six months in December, capping a late-year upswing, but a Eur...
(Reuters) - When top retailers post their December sales this week, Wall Street analysts are expecting them to report a healt...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless has reversed its decision to charge a $2 fee for telephone and online bill payments...
(Reuters) - Verizon Wireless is investigating reports that some customers were experiencing trouble accessing its fourth gene...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vodkas flavored with citrus and berry have been around for years and recently some newer brands have bee...
(Reuters) - Retail sales look poised for a solid finish to the holiday season as warm weather and deep discounts encouraged s...
By Phil Wahba(Reuters) - Sears Holdings Corp sales kept falling at the peak of the holiday season, and the retailer said it w...
By Richard Cowan and Rachelle YounglaiWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress approved a two-month payroll tax cut extension on Frida...
By Alistair Barr(Reuters) - Digital goods are the fastest-growing category online this holiday, led by e-books, suggesting Am...
By Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits hit a 3-1/2 year low l...
ORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) - A west Florida community is spending $3,800 in tax dollars to entice naked Germans to spend thei...
By Chip BarnetNEW YORK (Reuters) - The population of the United States is growing at its slowest rate in more than 70 years, ...
(Reuters) - Financial advisers in the United States are seeing fewer benefits from their use of social media, a survey by Ait...
(Reuters) - Unemployment rates in almost all U.S. states dropped in November, and 45 states had jobless rates lower than the ...
(Reuters) - AT&T has dropped its controversial $39 billion bid for Deutsche Telekom's U.S. wireless unit, bowing to fierc...
(Reuters) - Activision Blizzard, the biggest U.S. video game publisher by market capitalization, said its game Call of Duty: ...
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Apple's long-awaited iPhone 4S and Samsung Electronics' fresh, broad offering are likely to stand out in...
BOSTON (Reuters) - On a quiet stretch of the waterfront here, about a mile from Boston's main tourist sites, a Gillette facto...
HAVANA (Reuters) - Want to buy a blue 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air for $11,000 or a Soviet-made Lada 1600 for $15,000? Or f...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers moved closer to a deal on Monday to fund the government through next year, potentially avoid...
(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc said in a securities filing that it has begun an internal investigation to determine if some ...
(Reuters) - Companies planning to spend thousands of dollars for staff Christmas parties, even with open bars, shouldn't both...
(Reuters) - More than a third of U.S. shoppers are already done with most of their holiday shopping, a survey showed on Monda...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service on Monday moved forward with plans to end next-day delivery of l...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Thursday defeated competing payroll tax cut extension plans by Democrats and Republicans...
(Reuters) - A full postseason share for each member of the 2011 World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals was worth over $...
(Reuters) - American Airlines and its parent company filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday after failing to win a deal w...
(Reuters) - Facebook, the world's largest Internet social network, is preparing for a initial public stock offering next year...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. retailers racked up a record $52.4 billion in sales over the Thanksgiving weekend, a 16.4 perce...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will challenge the Congress to preserve an expiring payroll tax cut on Tuesday ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress on Thursday found a rare moment of accord in the budget fights that have paralyzed Washington...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich was forced to defend his lucrative former role with Freddie M...
(Reuters) - More Americans will choose a family visit over cost savings this Thanksgiving weekend even as gasoline prices sta...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration proposed on Wednesday doubling auto fuel efficiency to 54.5 miles per gallon ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Budget talks in the Congress were locked in stalemate on Wednesday amid the disclosure of a Democratic...
(Reuters) - Americans plan this year to go shopping in greater numbers on Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat in Congress said on Tuesday he saw few signs of progress on a deficit-cutting deal, a...
(Reuters) - Apple Inc moved to shore up its board after the death of Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs, appointing Walt Disney...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta spelled out a doomsday scenario Monday that he said could occur if Cong...
TORONTO (Reuters) - Ready to ditch your wallet, cash and credit cards? A mobile payment app lets users make purchases with th...
(Reuters) - The amount of public Internet hotspots (Wi-Fi) globally will grow more than fourfold to 5.8 million by 2015, boos...
(Reuters) - United Parcel Service Inc said on Monday it plans to hire 55,000 seasonal workers during the holiday shipping sea...
ROME (Reuters) - Two journalists close to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he could resign as early as Monday, i...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment growth was likely too weak in October to pull down the nation's lofty jobless rate, th...
(Reuters) - Detroit is in "extremely serious financial condition," as it is projected to run out of cash next year ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. air travelers can expect full flights over the Thanksgiving holiday even as the weak economy cuts...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With Republicans and Democrats in a familiar deadlock over taxes, prospects are poor for crafting a de...
LONDON (Reuters) - Simple reforms would eliminate much of the risk of investing in poor countries, unleashing billions of dol...
(Reuters) - The Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team said it has agreed with Major League Baseball (MLB) officials to a court-su...
(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it is offering an early preview of its Black Friday deals starting Wednesday and will al...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Herman Cain tout their real-world business experience...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The economy grew at its fastest pace in a year in the third quarter as consumers and businesses steppe...
DENVER (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday to take steps to ease the burden of student loans, potentially h...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Incomes for the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans nearly tripled from 1979 to 2007, far outpacing inco...
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican Rick Perry on Tuesday placed his hopes for a comeback in the U.S. presidentia...
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc shocked investors with a far weaker-than-expected outlook for the crucial holiday season quarter a...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Homeowners who owe more than their properties are worth got new help on Monday with the government's e...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Homeowners who owe more than their properties are worth got new help on Monday with the government's e...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett declared a fiscal emergency for Harrisburg on Monday, putting the stat...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama this week will announce a series of actions to help the economy that will not r...
(Reuters) - Walmart, the U.S. discount chain run by Wal-Mart Stores Inc, plans to offer customers lowest prices on products d...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans and Democrats rejected each other's economic stimulus bills on Thursday, underscori...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Thursday backed a measure to help bolster the housing market by making it easier for peo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Thursday backed a measure to help bolster the housing market by making it easier for peo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Social Security retirement benefits for about 55 million people will go up by 3.6 percent next year, t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For decades, American workers and their machines advanced in tandem. As companies invested in technolo...
(Reuters) - National Basketball Association (NBA) Commissioner David Stern has set his sights on the regular season starting ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain acknowledged on Sunday his "9-9-9" tax reform ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congressional audit of the Federal Reserve's 12 regional banks looks set to land this week with a wh...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich's Republican presidential effort raised $808...
DENISON, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, who is touting her work as a "federal tax ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actor Richard Gere auctioned his extensive collection of classic guitars, to the tune of nearly $1 m...
HANOVER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican front-runner Mitt Romney largely ignored his presidential rivals at a debate on...
(Reuters) - New York City's securities industry could lose nearly 10,000 jobs by the end of 2012, according to a report by Ne...
(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Facebook Inc unveiled a partnership on Tuesday to help the world's largest retailer conne...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama could create millions of jobs by attracting more foreign capital to the United ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employment likely grew only modestly in September, with hiring too weak to pull down a lofty jobless r...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama launched an onslaught against banks and Republicans on Thursday for working to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense contractors are losing faith that they have an ally in former chief weapons buyer Ashton Carte...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Protests against corporate greed and economic inequality spread across America on Thursday and found unl...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Outpourings of public grief and appreciation swept the globe on Thursday after the death of Apple co-fou...
(Reuters) - The release date for a Steve Jobs biography has been pushed up to October 24, according to a spokesman for Simon ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who changed the daily habits of millions by reinventing computing, mus...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Many wealthy donors who gave the maximum allowable amount to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign have doub...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve is prepared to take further steps to help an economy that is "close to falter...
CUPERTINO, California (Reuters) - Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook kicked off an event at which the company is expected to introduce th...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Less than a quarter of wealthy Americans support raising taxes on households making $250,000 or mo...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc looks set to unveil a new iPhone on Tuesday after a 15-month hiatus, hoping to fend off h...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats want tax hikes to be the first item negotiated in "super committee" deficit-reduct...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than three years after the financial crisis struck, the economy remains stuck in a consumer debt tr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry on Thursday lashed out anew at the Federal Reserve, accus...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc looks set next week to unveil its much-awaited new iPhone, which analysts say will have a...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey vetoed on Monday a $420,000 film tax credit dubbed the "S...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate approved a deal on Monday to avert a government shutdown, ending a standoff that highlighte...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama sought support for his job creation plan at a philanthropic summit on Wednes...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve managed to dodge a bullet last year when it emerged even more powerful after ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the U.S. government grapples to find ways to trim the bloated federal deficit, a new report suggest...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The 12 members of a congressional "super committee" laid out competing visions on Tuesday fo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's call for $3 trillion in new government savings, through a mix of tax incr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Violent crime in the United States dropped sharply in 2010 for the fourth straight year, but the murde...
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - The "robo-signing" of foreclosure documents in the past year underscores the ne...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders on Sunday criticized President Barack Obama's proposal for a new tax on millionaire...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton will push corporations and non-profit groups at his philanthropic summit t...
(Reuters) - The Dallas Stars hockey team filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the District Court of Delaware on Thursday to fac...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major progress is being made in a crackdown on international tax evasion, the U.S. Internal Revenue Se...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. offshore drilling regulator could issue sanctions as early as next week against BP and the ma...
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co and Chrysler Group LLC agreed to extend labor contracts with the United Auto Workers on...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry said on Tuesday Washington lawmakers need the equivalent of a 1...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The results of a pivotal federal U.S. probe of last year's massive BP oil spill could be released as e...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc will double the money it spends with women-owned businesses, train women around the w...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama faces deep skepticism from swing voters who see the Republican party as more in...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama was set Monday to step up his campaign to win support for a $447 billion jo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Thursday he is seeking to broaden U.S. homeowners' access to mortgage r...
SIMI VALLEY, California (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said on Wednesday that if he were elected pre...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Dallas Cowboys will end 2011 as the National Football League's (NFL) most valuable team for a fifth ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp is battling with plaintiffs' lawyers over how many vehicle owners the company can inte...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's pledge to boost America's global standing by ramping up U.S. diplomacy and de...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp Chief Executive Howard Schultz called on Americans on Tuesday to deluge U.S. lawmakers...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc Chairman Roy Bostock fired CEO Carol Bartz over the phone on Tuesday, ending a tumultuous...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, facing waning confidence among Americans in his economic stewardship, plans so...
LONDON (Reuters) - Stocks fell on Monday and the euro hit a three-week low versus the dollar as worries about Greek and Itali...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment growth ground to a halt in August as sagging confidence discouraged already skittish b...
Bangalore (Reuters) - Bill Burke and certain other investors have offered Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team owner Frank McCou...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda pledged to target fiscal reforms to curb the country's huge public d...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama sharply cut estimates on Thursday for U.S. economic growth, underscoring the di...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Elvis Presley's estate is turning to a litigation-finance firm to sue Arista Music in Germany for unpaid...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Manufacturing unexpectedly grew in August and fewer Americans filed new claims for jobless aid last we...
LUDLOW, Vermont (Reuters) - Residents of several Northeast states approached the Labor Day holiday weekend mired in mud and s...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will urge Congress on Wednesday to approve stop-gap aviation and transportation...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Telecommunications giant AT&T Inc, whose proposed buy of T-Mobile USA is under scrutiny by U.S. regul...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington's never-ending budget battle threatened to snarl the recovery from Hurricane Irene as a top...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lenders are making more subprime auto loans again, reversing the cautious approach they adopted after th...
LONDON (Reuters) - Global shares edged up to their highest in nearly two weeks on Tuesday, but the rally looked to be running...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Consumer spending rose at its fastest pace in five months in July, supporting views the economy was no...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene could cost U.S. state and local governments billions of dollars in damages, but funds fr...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The question is not whether Steve Jobs is an iconic CEO, but where Apple Inc's co-founder ranks in the p...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry on Thursday described Washington as "a seedy place&q...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Billionaire investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett will boost President Barack Obama's re-election bi...
VINEYARD HAVEN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is finalizing a jobs package that could include a program to...
SAN FRANCISCO/SHANGHAI (Reuters)- From San Francisco to Seoul to Sydney, fans of Apple Inc paid tribute to Steve Jobs after h...
SAN FRANCISCO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple Inc on Wednesday and passed the reins to his right-...
VINEYARD HAVEN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has taken heat for taking a vacation when the U.S. economy i...
DETROIT (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp and Ford Motor Co will work together to develop hybrid trucks and SUVs that will be rea...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bill Gross, manager of the world's largest bond fund, said on Friday the rally in Treasury yields to 60-...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell on Friday after the market opened, extending the previous session's steep losses, on fears t...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Large employers expect big increases in healthcare costs in 2012, and say they'll pass more and more of ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Friday said China had "nothing to worry about" concerning the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a sharply weaker open for equities on Wall Street on Friday, a day after ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks tumbled on Thursday, with the Nasdaq down nearly 5 percent after data showed factory activity in ...
ATKINSON, Ill (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he will propose a plan in September to jump-start the U.S....
BERLIN, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, seen by many as the choice of moderate Republicans in 201...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Prices for farmland in the heart of the U.S. grain belt were up 17 percent in the second quarter compared...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. wholesale prices outside of food and fuel rose at the fastest pace in six months in July as costs...
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The historic Texas drought that has parched most of the state throughout the summer has caused $5...
ORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) - Veteran actor Burt Reynolds is facing foreclosure on his longtime southeast Florida home, according ...
PLYMOUTH, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney touted his record as a businessman on Mon...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose for a third day on Monday as investors bought shares whose prices have been beaten down in r...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc said it will buy phone hardware maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc for $12.5 billion in...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's economy shrank much less than expected in the second quarter as companies made strides in restoring...
(Reuters) - Billionaire Warren Buffett urged lawmakers to raise taxes on the country's super-rich to help cut the budget defi...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Cable has reached a deal to buy The Carlyle Group's cable operator Insight Communications Co...
HOLLAND, Michigan (Reuters) - President Barack Obama distanced himself from a deeply divided U.S. Congress on Thursday, pledg...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading Republican lawmaker would not rule out tax increases on Thursday if they could boost economi...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell on Wednesday on fears about the French banking sector's exposure to shaky European debt and ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Tuesday took the unprecedented step of promising to keep interest rates near ze...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures fell on Wednesday after a sharp snap-back rally in the last session as investor fear...
MIAMI (Reuters) - Heat and drought are parching the southern U.S. plains, floods and tornadoes have shattered long-standing r...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rebounded sharply on Tuesday after a major sell-off, but markets remained vulnerable to selling i...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co is studying possible production bases overseas to replace export-bound car production in Jap...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Tuesday will finalize the first ever fuel efficiency and emissions standar...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - America is on the fritz.From Times Square to St. Petersburg, Florida, and Portland, Oregon, people are t...
LONDON (Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to further steep losses for equities on Tuesday, after the previous session's ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday blamed a downgrade in the United States' credit rating on political g...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks plummeted for the second straight session, driving the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq down 6 percent...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. political parties on Sunday traded blame for the country's loss of its top-tier AAA credit rating...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who had considered stepping down after the government borrowing l...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ratings agency Moody's repeated a warning on Monday it could downgrade the United States before 2013 if ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Almost half the workers in Verizon Communications' wireline telecommunications business went on strike o...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A downgrade of United States' top-tier credit rating has Wall Street scrambling to figure out the knock-...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has asked Timothy Geithner to stay on as Treasury secretary and a decision is e...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Disapproval of Congress rose to an all-time high after weeks of rancorous partisan battles over raisin...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jobs data on Friday could prove a make-or-break moment for global financial markets increasingly alarm...
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co's quarterly profit nearly doubled, beating expectations, as the top U.S. automaker took...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned on Wednesday that any across-the-board cuts to defense spending ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The pace of growth in the services sector ticked down unexpectedly in July to the lowest level since Feb...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States had its triple-A rating confirmed by two key ratings agencies on Tuesday after Washing...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States stepped back from the brink of default on Tuesday but congressional approval of a la...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is poised to step back from economic disaster on Tuesday when a bitterly fought deal...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With four days remaining until the United States hits its debt limit, President Barack Obama on Friday...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cutting the U.S. deficit by some $4 trillion over 10 years would be a good start, but more savings w...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood urged Congress on Thursday to end a partial shutdown of the Federa...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders will scramble to rescue their budget deficit-cutting plan on Friday after conservat...
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, reported a higher quarterly profit tha...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican deficit reduction plan headed to a close vote in the Congress on Thursday and the White H...
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