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Jobless Claims Rise Slightly to 462,000

Applications for jobless benefits rose last week for the first ...

Mortgage Rates Fall to 4.19%, Lowest in Decades

Rates on 30-year mortgages fell to 4.19 percent, the lowest ...

Fed Leans toward 2-Step Stimulus

The Federal Reserve is leaning toward taking two steps to ...

AMD Returns to Profit in Core Chip Business

Advanced Micro Devices narrowed its third-quarter loss as the chip ...

Sony Ericsson Slips in Tough Smart Phone Market

Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson on Friday reported a third ...

Infosys Reports 18% Higher Profits

Infosys Technologies Ltd., India's bellwether information technology outsourcing company, beat ...

GE Profits Fell 18% on Lower Equipment Sales

General Electric Co. says its third-quarter income fell 18 percent ...

Sept. Retails Sales Rose for Third Straight Month

Americans spent more money on cars, furniture and at hardware ...

Luxury Sales Back to Pre-Crisis Levels

The luxury sector is rebounding better-than-expected this year thanks in ...

Nikkei Gains on Tech Optimism

Asian stock markets were mixed in early trading Monday, with ...

Hitachi, Johnson Controls Ink Lithium-Ion Battery Pact

Japanese electronics company Hitachi is tying up with a U.S. ...

Asia Stocks Fall, Dollar Strengthens on Fed Doubts

Asian stocks fell Monday at the start of a busy ...

Citi Posts $2.15 Bil. Profit As Loan Losses Decline

Citigroup says it has turned a profit for the third ...

France Forced to Cut Half of Flights Amid Strikes

France's civil aviation authority says airlines must drastically cut back ...

Halliburton Profits Double on Natural Gas Drilling

Halliburton Co. said Monday its net income more than doubled ...

Investors Encouraged by Citi Earnings, Housing Data

Better than expected third-quarter earnings from Citigroup Inc. on Monday ...

China Boosts U.S. Treasury Holdings After Drop

China, the largest holder of U.S. Treasury debt, increased its ...

Starbucks Starts Serving Beer, Wine

Something new is on the menu at a renovated Starbucks ...

China Signals Gradual Rise in Yuan Value

The head of China's central bank says he agrees that ...

Verizon Wireless to Roll Out 4G in 38 Cities

Verizon Wireless said Wednesday that its new wireless broadband network, ...

Samsung Expects Earnings to Fall Below Record

Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest seller of computer memory chips, ...

Japan Forex Reserves Hit New High After Failed Intervention

Japan's foreign exchange reserves hit an all-time high in September ...

Toyota Steps Up Efforts to Win Back Customers

Aiming to win back customer trust after its string of ...

World Markets Flat, Dollar Slides Awaiting Fed Move

World stock markets were steady Thursday ahead of European interest ...

PepsiCo Revenues Soar on Overseas Growth

PepsiCo's third-quarter net income rose 12 percent on strong sales ...

Retail Sales Grow More Than Expected

Retailers reported surprisingly solid sales gains for September, boosted by ...

Consumers Cut Credit Card Use for 24th Month

Consumer borrowing fell again in August as consumers cut back ...

Japan Approves New $61 Bil. Stimulus Package

The Japanese Cabinet has approved 5.05 trillion yen ($61 billion) ...

PayPal iPhone App Allows Check Deposits

Betting you wouldn't trek to your bank or the closest ...

Honda Fit Hybrid Goes on Sale in Japan

Honda's new hybrid Fit subcompact went on sale in Japan ...

China Launches Quest for Domestic Potash Sources

China has launched a search for domestic sources of potash ...

95,000 Jobs Lost in Sept on Massive Gov't Layoffs

A wave of government layoffs in September outpaced weak hiring ...

Wholesale Buying, Inventories Rise

Businesses have been restocking store shelves since the recession ended, ...

China Oil Co Signs Big Gas Deal with French Utility

Chinese offshore oil and gas company CNOOC agreed Saturday to ...

German Business Mood Highest in 3 Years

German business confidence unexpectedly rose to its highest level in ...

Google Tests Self-Driving Cars on Calif. Roads

Google Inc. is road-testing cars that steer, stop and start ...

China Buys a Third of Chesapeake's S. Tex Oil Field

China's state-owned offshore oil and gas company has bought a ...

Virgin Galactic Makes First Solo Glide Flight

Virgin Galactic's space tourism rocket SpaceShipTwo achieved its first solo ...

Stalled Foreclosures Could Derail Housing Recovery

Karl Case, the co-creator of a widely watched housing market ...

World Stocks Stay Up on Fed Easing Hopes

Global stock markets rose Monday amid ongoing expectations that the ...

Microsoft Stakes Wireless Future on Cell Phone Software

Microsoft Corp. knows the cell phone world is where it's ...

IBM Shares Hit All-Time High Monday

IBM shares hit an all-time high Monday. The stock rode ...

Stocks Fall As China Seeks to Slow Lending

Stock futures dropped Tuesday following reports that China is again ...

Icahn Tries to Fold MGM into Lions Gate

Lions Gate is offering to combine its business with MGM ...

France Begins Mass Strikes Over Pension Reforms

Workers tried to shut down France on Tuesday with strikes ...

Fed Rate Setter Dampens Market Hopes

World markets fell Tuesday after a leading U.S. rate-setter dampened ...

Pfizer to Buy King Pharmaceutical

Pfizer Inc., the world's largest pharmaceutical company by revenue, said ...

China Raises Big Bank Reserve Ratio for 2 Months

China has raised reserve requirements for the six biggest commercial ...

Google to Build Off-Shore Wind Farms

Google will invest heavily in a network of deepwater transmission ...

Apple Shares Touch New Record on iPad Hopes

Apple Inc.'s stock flirted with $300 Tuesday as investors high ...