Despite a 48-hour contract extension, negotiations between Boeing Co. and Machinists union officials failed Friday and the union said a strike was set to begin at 12:01 a.m...

Soybean prices tumbled Friday after the dollar continued its rally against the euro, giving investors more reasons to sell commodities that were bought as a hedge against i...

Shares of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac tumbled in after-hours trading Friday following a report by The Wall Street Journal that the government may ...

Treasury prices fell Friday as investors cashed in profits from the strong gains the bonds made earlier in the week.Also weighing on Treasurys was an afternoon rever...

Federal prosecutors in Connecticut say a scheme to manipulate the financial statements of the world's largest insurance company, American International Group Inc., resulted...

THE LATEST: The nation's unemployment rate zoomed to a five-year high of 6.1 percent August and employers slashed jobs for the eighth month in a row.WHAT IT MEANS: W...

The nation's unemployment rate bolted above the psychologically important 6 percent level last month for the first time in five years — and it's likely to go even higher ...

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:NYSEMerrill Lynch & Co., up 52 cents at $2...

General Electric Co. says the Securities and Exchange Commission staff has notified the company it may recommend fines and other action for possible violations of securitie...

General Electric Co. said Friday it has been informed that the Securities and Exchange Commission may recommend fines and other action for possible violations of securities...

Database provider InfoGroup Inc. said Friday it no longer faces the threat of being delisted, but the Nasdaq plans to reprimand the firm publicly.InfoGroup ran afoul...

The New York Times plans to reduce the number of standalone sections of the New York metropolitan editions of the newspaper, a move designed to save money by cutting labor ...

Agriculture futures traded lower Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade.Wheat for December delivery fell 25.5 cents to $7.515 a bushel; December corn fell 16 cents to ...

Wall Street wrestled with intensifying economic worries Friday, extending sharp losses after a disheartening jobs report and then grudgingly engaging in some mild bargain h...

Sony Corp. is recalling 440,000 Vaio laptop computers worldwide because of a wiring flaw that could cause overheating.Sony said Thursday the recall involves 19 model...

Boeing Co. will serve as consultant to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for its mid-sized regional jet — the first "made in Japan" passenger aircraft in three decades, the Jap...

London Taxis are as British as bowler hats and Big Ben. But the latest models coming off this new assembly line are unlikely to ever touch an English road.At a spraw...

Yahoo Inc.'s stock sank to its lowest level in nearly five years Thursday, magnifying the challenge facing the Internet company as its management tries to justify their reb...

Stocks turned higher Friday, reversing steep losses that followed a worrisome reading on the nation's job market as investors sought bargains in sectors like financials and...

WHAT THE COMPANIES SAY: Altria Group, which owns Marlboro-maker Philip Morris USA, called a New York Times report that it would buy rival UST Inc. for more than $10 billion...

Bank of America Corp. said Friday it is ready to settle federal and state investigations into sales of risky auction-rate securities, joining eight other big investment ban...

Oil prices are down, the dollar is up, and U.S. growth and exports have perked up a little. So is the global financial crisis winding down anytime soon? Top economists and ...

Technology appears to be one of the least hard-hit sectors in an economy beset by unemployment at a five-year high.The Labor Department reported Friday that companie...

Stocks fluctuated Friday, pulling off steep losses that followed a worrisome reading on the nation's job market as investors sought bargains in sectors like financials and ...

NEW YORK — As part of its new $300 million marketing campaign and image makeover, Microsoft Corp. plans to deploy its own customer-service representatives at retailers li...

Aruba Networks Inc. shares fell Friday after an analyst downgraded the stock to "Equal Weight," saying that despite strong sales, ongoing capital investments are limiting t...

The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the United States fell by 18 this week to 2,013.Of the rigs running nationwide, 1,586 were exploring...

Wall Street fell for a second straight session Friday following a worrisome reading on the nation's job market, but stocks pulled off of steep losses as investors sought ba...

Agriculture futures traded lower Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade.Wheat for December delivery fell 31.5 cents to $7.455 a bushel; December corn fell 15 cents to ...

Substandard science has hurt a federal agency's seven-year effort to document possible links between industrial pollution and health problems in the Great Lakes region, an ...

The U.S. dollar was mostly higher against other major currencies in European trading Friday. Gold rose.The euro traded at $1.4281, down from $1.4331 late Thursday in...

Altria Group, which owns Marlboro-maker Philip Morris USA, said Friday that a report of its impending acquisition of UST was "pure speculation." Analysts said the deal make...

The government on Friday began posting a list of prescription drugs under investigation for potential safety problems in an effort to better inform doctors and patients.Continental to charge $15 for 1st checked bag, David Koenig

Continental Airlines Inc. said Friday it is charging some coach customers $15 for a first checked bag, matching a similar fee imposed by most other major U.S. carriers....

HUMBLE START: Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated Google on Sept. 7, 1998, after unsuccessfully trying to sell their search engine for a couple of million dollars. They...

When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their beli...

Oil prices sank to a five-month low Friday as a jump in the U.S. unemployment rate signaled to traders that Americans might keep paring back their energy use to save money....

Stocks lost ground for a second straight session Friday following a worrisome reading on the nation's job market but pulled off of steep losses as investors looked for barg...

Shares in Nokia Corp. tumbled Friday after the leading cell phone maker said its third-quarter global market share will decline from second-quarter levels because of aggres...

The source of trouble in the mortgage market has shifted from subprime loans made to borrowers with bad credit to homeowners who had solid credit but took out exotic loans ...

National Semiconductor Corp., which makes chips that regulate power and perform other functions in gadgets, reported Friday its first-quarter profit fell 7 percent from a y...

German industrial production fell 1.8 percent in July compartede with June, with the three main categories of output showing declines, the ministry of the economy said Frid...

Selling swept across Wall Street for a second straight session Friday on news that the economy shed jobs for the eighth straight month in August and at a faster-than-expect...

Oil prices slipped Friday but recovered from earlier lows as the dollar weakened against the euro and unemployment data deflated hopes of a late-year economic recovery in t...

Russia's number one cell operator MTS said Friday it has signed a deal with Apple Inc. to sell the iPhone in Russia.MTS, which becomes the last of the country's "big...

Troubled by the Bear Stearns debacle, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is advocating a new way of dealing with government bailouts of companies whose sudden c...

Wall Street fell sharply Friday after the government's much-anticipated employment report showed weaker-than-expected job growth and a rise in the unemployment rate. The Na...

The nation's unemployment rate zoomed to a five-year high of 6.1 percent in August as employers slashed 84,000 jobs, dramatic proof of the mounting damage a deeply troubled...

Wall Street looked to extend its sharp decline Friday after the government disappointed investors with news that the economy shed jobs for the eighth straight month in Augu...

Nokia Corp. warned Friday its third-quarter global market share will decline from second-quarter levels, sending its U.S. shares tumbling more than 11 percent in premarket ...

World stock markets fell sharply Friday in the wake of a sell-off on Wall Street amid mounting concerns about a slumping U.S. economy and its impact on global growth.Report: Samsung working to acquire SanDisk

Samsung Electronics Co. is pursuing an acquisition of U.S. computer memory card maker SanDisk Corp., a South Korean online business newspaper reported Friday.Both Sa...

Specialty insurer Assurant Inc. has agreed to acquire the warranty management business of General Electric Co.'s appliance and consumer electronics division.Under th...

Shares at Informa PLC, the London-based publisher of Lloyd's List maritime newspaper, fell almost 7 percent on Friday after the company rejected a reduced $3.4 billion take...

Wall Street looked to extend its losses on Friday, with investors worried that the government's August jobs report will indicate that the economy is in recession.Inv...

Oil prices dropped below $107 a barrel Friday as the dollar continued to gain on the euro and investors waited to see if OPEC moves to restrict output next week amid a two-...

Asian stock markets plunged Friday in the wake of a sell-off on Wall Street amid mounting concerns about a slumping U.S. economy and its impact on global growth. European s...

Honda is bringing back the defunct Insight nameplate for a hybrid-only vehicle planned for the Japanese, European and North American markets early next year, as the automak...

The top business news from The Associated Press for the morning of Friday, Sept. 5, 2008:Asian markets plunge after Wall Street sell-offTOKYO (AP) — Asian s...

There's a mushroom boom in the wet woods of the Northeast this summer.Hillsides bloom with black trumpets. Disc-shaped mushrooms called artist's conch sprout from tr...

Tropical Storm Hanna was accelerating early Friday as it made its way toward the United States' southeast coast.The National Hurricane Center in Miami said only slig...

Asian stock markets plunged Friday after more bad news on the U.S. economy, a vital export market, triggered a broad sell-off on Wall Street overnight.Disappointing ...

Oil prices were steady Friday in Asia below $108 a barrel as investors wait to see if OPEC moves to restrict output at its meeting next week amid a two-month plunge in pric...

Asian stock markets plunged Friday after more bad news on the U.S. economy, a vital export market, triggered a broad sell-off on Wall Street overnight.Disappointing ...

Representatives from Boeing Co. and the machinists union met with a federal mediator Thursday as the clock ticked on an unusual two-day contract extension after union produ...

Representatives from Boeing Co. and the machinists union met with a federal mediator Thursday as the clock ticked on an unusual two-day contract extension after union produ...

Lloyd's of London, the world's biggest insurance market, signaled its intention to push its business in emerging markets in Asia and Latin America and oil rich countries in...