Economy & Trade

Trafficking babies is good business in China: Infants can be sold to overseas buyers for as much as $22,000, and the authorities don't seem to mind.

A report released Wednesday shows that the U.S. economy added 110,000 private-sector jobs last month, higher than estimated.

U.S. economic activity no longer appears to be contracting and is showing small improvements in the 12 Federal ...

U.S. stocks rallied Monday, as positive corporate earnings, more progress on European debt talks, and mergers and acquisitions ...

The holiday shopping season is just around the corner and with it anxiety as to who is going ...

U.S. stock markets fell Monday, the first day of the third quarter, as investors were once again spooked ...

Airline industry insurance providers, after having been hit with airline insurance claims during past years, experienced a relatively ...

U.S. stocks were modestly higher on Thursday, as Wall Street was lifted by promising economic data and a ...

Toy retailers are already preparing their sales strategies for the upcoming holiday season, vying for consumers' dollars early ...

In 1933, given bank failures en masse from the 1920s to the early 1930s, the U.S. government created ...

America's political and business establishment has to put this country's competitiveness above petty squabbles and hunker down to ...

U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday, for the second consecutive day, driven by optimism coming out of Europe.

U.S. stocks dropped last Friday amid fresh worries that Greece may default on its debt, tipping the global ...

On Aug. 31, the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) release concerning employment and unemployment in metropolitan areas ...

Sallie Krawcheck, a top executive at Bank of America Corp. and widely known as the most powerful woman ...

Don't even dream of touching Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid when seeking ways to reduce the budget, said ...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) this week upheld tariffs on Chinese tires issued by the United States.

U.S. automobile companies recorded double-digit sales gains in August, a somewhat surprising turn of events given last month's ...

The unemployment rate in the United States still hovers around 9.1 percent, yet the U.S. federal government still ...

Stocks soared on Tuesday, in its biggest one-day gain in almost two weeks, despite an earthquake that shook ...

Wall Street dropped again Aug. 19 on renewed fears that the global economy may be heading into another ...

Consumer spending is on the decline, and every extra penny is being saved for rainy days. Also consumers ...

Dell Inc., one of the biggest manufacturers of computer hardware, is in the midst of a corporate transition: ...

As the U.S. economic recovery continues to stumble, consumers are paying more attention to their personal finances, as ...

Last week's severe stock market volatility has scared away several companies eyeing potential initial public offerings (IPO) last ...

Regulators from four European Union nations last week decided to ban the short selling of shares of bank ...

Investors rushed to shed risk and drove the stock market down on Wednesday, with major indices around the ...