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Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the administration and party leaders in Congress and... More>>
Encouraging news about the U.S. economy extended the stock market's rally Friday. More>>
It was supposed to be our IPO, the people's public offering. More>>
New numbers from the state Commerce Department show the unemployment rate lower than it's been since 2009. More>>
Weak sales from Wal-Mart and discouraging economic reports resulted in a down day on the stock market. More>>
For Google CEO Larry Page, happiness is a warm computer. More>>
Research In Motion Ltd. unveiled a lower-cost BlackBerry aimed at consumers in emerging markets, stepping up its efforts to regain market share lost to Apple's iPhone and Android devices powered by Google's software. More>>
The stock market marched back into record territory Tuesday as investors seized on the latest encouraging news about the economy. This time, it was a report on the health of small businesses. More>>
Amtrak has unveiled at a plant in California the first of 70 new locomotives, marking what the national passenger railroad service said it hopes will be a new era of better reliability, streamlined maintenance and more... More>>
Senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew agents were targeting tea party groups as early as 2011, according to a draft of an inspector general's report obtained by The Associated Press that seemingly contradicts... More>>
Jake Anderson didn't have to delve too deep into the University of Missouri's agricultural economics program before realizing he was destined to return to the 1,500-acre family farm. After all, that's been the... More>>
International law enforcement agencies say the recent $45 million dollar ATM heist is just one of many scams they're fighting in an unprecedented wave of sophisticated cyberattacks. More>>
President Barack Obama says Congress must give more homeowners the chance to refinance their mortgages to save money. More>>
Japan's benchmark stock index surged Friday after the dollar hit a four-year high against the yen. Gains were modest elsewhere as traders digested a positive U.S. jobs report. More>>
The stock market pulled back from record levels Thursday as investors became harder to please. More>>
Ottavio Missoni, the patriarch of the iconic fashion brand of zigzag-patterned knitwear that helped launch Italian ready-to-wear and turn Milan into a fashion mecca, died Thursday just months after his eldest son disappeared... More>>
When Lalo Alcaraz learned this week that Disney was seeking to trademark "Dia de los Muertos," the name of the traditional "Day of the Dead" celebrated by millions in Mexico and the U.S., the cartoonist had an idea. More>>
A Food and Drug Administration investigation into the safety of caffeine-added foods has prompted Wrigley to take its new caffeinated gum off the market for the time being. More>>
New jobs are on the way to Greenville.Governor Pat McCrory announced Wednesday that ASMO North America will expand in Pitt County. The global supplier of advanced automotive technology, systems, and components More>>
Italian prosecutors placed the captain of the Jolly Nero cargo ship under investigation Wednesday for alleged manslaughter after his vessel slammed into the dock at Genoa's busy port and toppled the control tower into... More>>
The Dow Jones industrial average rose, closing above 15,000 for a second day after breaching the landmark level for the first time Tuesday. More>>
America's largest retailer is opening a new store in the east and it's looking to hire hundreds of people to work there. More>>
Youth unemployment is likely to rise globally to 12.8 percent by 2018, wiping out gains made in the recent economic recovery, the U.N.'s labor office said Wednesday. More>>
The Dow Jones industrial average punched through another milestone Tuesday, closing above 15,000 for the first time just two months after recovering the last of its losses from the 2008 financial crisis. More>>
The Senate sided with traditional retailers and financially strapped state and local governments Monday by passing a bill that would widely subject online shopping - for many a largely tax-free frontier - to state sales... More>>
Congress is considering legislation that would give states the ability to require out-of-state retailers to collect sales taxes. If the measure passes, consumers would lose a loophole that has resulted in years of tax-free... More>>
U.S. cranberry farmers who spent millions of dollars to replant and expand bogs face a financial crisis after a huge harvest in Canada flooded the market and sent prices plummeting. More>>
This is the Illinois that many people never see - the sparsely populated southern tip where flat farmland gives way to rolling hills, rocky outcrops, thick forests and cypress swamps. More>>
Billionaire Warren Buffett dispensed plenty of advice on investing and life during this weekend's Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting. More>>
Iron Man reigns as the standard-bearer of Hollywood superheroes with a $175.3 million domestic opening weekend for his latest sequel and an overseas haul of a half-billion dollars in less than two weeks. More>>
Buy anything on the Internet lately without paying sales tax? In all but a few states, you're probably a tax cheat. More>>
The U.S. economy showed in April that it's healthier than many had feared, adding a solid 165,000 jobs and driving the unemployment rate down a notch to a four-year low of 7.5 percent. More>>
Barnes & Noble is teaming up with Google to vastly increase the number of apps available on its Nook HD tablets. More>>
Good news on unemployment in North Carolina. The unemployment rate dropped in 99 of the state's 100 counties in March, according to state figures released Wednesday. In Pitt County, unemployment fell More>>
Owning a home has long been a staple of the American dream; but, when the market crashed in 2008, many people stop looking, leaving homeowners, builders, and banks with homes they couldn't sell.
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