Senator seeks broad SEC market review: report

A Democrat senator is expected on Monday to ask the Securities and Exchange Commission to review the stock market’s structures, Dow Jones Newswires reported, […]

Retail sales fall, new jobless claims rise

Americans shopped less in July and more signed up for jobless benefits last week in a double dose of bad news for the U.S. […]

DuPont backs Monsanto critic

When the Organization for Competitive Markets holds its annual conference in downtown St. Louis today, a certain target of the daylong meeting will be […]

Arch shares soar on production, spending cuts

Arch Coal Inc., the nation’s No. 2 coal producer, reported a $15.1 million second-quarter loss as sales declined amid sagging demand for fuel to […]

Burberry says taking share in a tough market

British luxury goods group Burberry met forecasts with a 4 percent fall in first-quarter underlying revenues and said on Wednesday it was taking market […]

Glaxo in potential $1.9 billion tax battle with IRS

British-based drug company GlaxoSmithKline is battling the U.S. Internal Revenue Service over a potential $1.9 billion in back taxes, interest and penalties.
Glaxo had already […]

Obama urges mortgage refinancing

President Barack Obama encouraged Americans Thursday to take advantage of historically low mortgage rates and said his administration was rolling out further phases of […]

Regulator proposes new accounting rule

The Financial Accounting Standards Board, which sets U.S. accounting rules, proposed Monday to allow companies to exercise more judgment in determining if a market […]

U.S. Industrial Production Probably Fell on Auto, Export Slump

Industrial production probably fell in February for the sixth time in seven months as cutbacks at automakers and collapsing exports rippled across the U.S., […]

U.S. throws AIG another lifeline

The government on Monday unveiled a revamped rescue package to insurance giant American International Group and said it will provide the troubled company with […]