Surging Consumer Confidence Boosts Wall Street

China Sees Evolving Economy in Lower Energy Use Data

Google Sees Facebook's Intimacy As Search Threat

Newspapers Charge Online Fees to Save Print Subscriptions

GM Bondholder Offer Fails, Bankruptcy Likely

Asian Stocks Shrug Off Nuke Test

Clean Energy Can Create 2 Mil. New Jobs in U.S. Says Study

GMAC Gets $7.5 Bil. More Aid from FDIC

Acer Eyes Japan Growth with Cheap, Advanced Laptop

GM's Fate in Bondholders' Hands After UAW Deal Struck

Japan Upgrades Assessment of Economy

European Economy Shows Signs of Revival

Japanese Suppliers Seek Gov't Help for GM Bankruptcy

GM's Fate Adds Undertainty to Changing Auto Market

Majority of GM Bondholders Support Debt Swap

Opel Deal Caps Rags-to-Riches Rise of Magna Founder

China Sends Big Buying Delegation to Taiwan

Opel, Chrysler Set to Go to Magna, Fiat

Tiffany Sales Drop Far Less Severe in Asia, Europe

Dollar Sinks on Asia Recovery Signs

World Markets Like Revised US Q1 GDP Figures

Cadbury Rebuffs Kraft's $16.7 Bil. Takeover Bid

Kraft Foods Inc. on Monday proposed a 10.2 billion pounds ($16.7 billion) takeover of Cadbury PLC, but the offer was immediately rejected by the British ...

Economic Slump Seen Easing in Q2

Japan's Industrial Output Jumps Most in 56 Years

Durable Goods Orders Rose 1.9% in April

Market Expects Rise in Sales of New Homes, Durable Goods

Japan's Auto Output Continued Slide in April

Japan Retail Sales Fall for 8th Straight Month

Goldman Earnings Top $3 Bil. on Trading Profits

Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s third-quarter earnings more than tripled from the depths of the financial crisis as income from the company's trading operations offset a ...

BOA Reports $2.2 Bil. Loss on Rising Bad Loans

Bank of America Corp. says it lost more than $2 billion in the third quarter as its loan losses continued to rise. The nation's second-largest ...

Twitter Launches Japanese Mobile Site

Twitter Inc. now speaks Japanese — and it plans to be multilingual within months. The popular microblogging service launched a Japan-based mobile version Thursday, hoping ...

IBM Profits Jump, Boosts '09 Guidance

IBM Corp. has jacked up its profit guidance for the second time this year, a sign of the company's confidence that it can uncork more ...

Google Earns Record Profit on Revenue Growth

Google Inc. shifted into a higher gear in the third quarter and began to leave the recession behind as the 11-year-old Internet search leader recorded ...

California Home Sales Up 1% in September

The number of homes sold in California last month ticked up last month from August, as low mortgage rates and eagerness to cash in on ...

AMD Reports Strong Sales on Rising CPU Demand

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. lost money in the third quarter but said Thursday that sales were stronger than expected, adding to mounting evidence that consumer ...

China Sept. Data Shows Return to Robust Growth

China's foreign direct investment and power usage rose in September, in the latest evidence the country's economic recovery is gaining momentum. Foreign direct investment in ...

Gap to Resume TV Ads, Expand into China

The apparel retailer Gap Inc. on Thursday announced plans to return to television advertising in November for its namesake brand, after a two-year hiatus,

House Banking Panel Votes to Regulate Derivatives

A House panel voted Thursday to regulate for the first time privately traded derivatives, the kind of exotic financial instruments that helped bring down Lehman ...

U.S. Assets Attract Rising Foreign Demand

Foreign demand for long-term U.S. financial assets rose in August even though China trimmed its holdings of Treasury securities. Foreigners purchased $28.6 billion more

VisionChina Media to Buy Subway Advertising Leader

VisionChina Media Inc., which operates digital advertising screens on mass transportation systems in China, said Thursday it will buy subway advertising company Digital Media Group ...

Asian Markets Extend Rally on U.S. Profits Data

Asian stocks extended their rise Thursday after better-than-expected earnings reports from U.S. companies helped push the Dow Jones industrial average pass the 10,000 mark for ...

S&P Downgrades Southwest Airlines

Standard & Poor's downgraded Southwest Airlines Co. one notch on Wednesday, citing lower demand for travel and weak pricing that have cut into the company's ...

JPMorgan Earned $3.6 Bil. Despite High Loan Losses

JPMorgan Chase & Co. reported strong third-quarter earnings Wednesday as its thriving investment banking business more than offset rising loan losses that the bank warned ...

Online Subs Put WSJ Ahead of USA Today

The Wall Street Journal has surpassed USA Today as the top-selling daily newspaper in the United States. The Audit Bureau of Circulations won't be releasing ...

Oracle Turns Up Rhetoric As Server Sales Go to IBM

Larry Ellison ratcheted up his rhetoric against IBM Corp. on Wednesday, challenging Oracle Corp.'s longtime partner and rival to "make our day" in a battle ...

Dow Closes Above 10,000 for First Time in Year

The Dow Jones industrial average is back above 10,000 for the first time in a year. The Dow crossed five figures Wednesday seven months after ...

PC Shipments Rise in Q3, Bodes Well for Holidays

Worldwide shipments of personal computers edged back up in the third quarter, according to researchers, a promising sign for the industry as it heads into ...