Peru’s Southern Copper Corp. on Thursday said second-quarter profit fell 24 percent from the year-ago period amid strikes and higher fuel and production costs.

Microsoft’s CEO defended the software maker’s decision to invest heavily in its unprofitable online business, but shed little light Thursday on specific...

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:

Bleeding cash and with its very survival uncertain, Ford Motor Co., an icon of American automaking, will try to import some of its success from across the Atlantic.

Agriculture futures traded mostly higher Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

Ford Motor Co. posted its worst quarterly loss ever Thursday in a roiling global auto market that also saw profits fall at Daimler AG, Hyundai Motor Co. and AutoNation...

The Federal Reserve says banks stepped up their borrowing over the past week from its emergency lending program, while Wall Street firms took a pass.

Like other major drugmakers, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Eli Lilly & Co. saw benefits from the weak dollar in the second quarter, as sales grew at a faster rate...

Energy market investors managed to win back modest gains Thursday following oil’s big drop a day earlier, but again drive natural gas prices sharply lower as a...

Tribune Co. is inviting at least three potential buyers who each submitted bids for the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field near or above $1 billion to participate in a...

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sued banking giant UBS for fraud Thursday, accusing the company of marketing tens of billions of dollars of auction-rate...

California air regulators on Thursday approved the nation’s toughest rules to reduce harmful emissions from ocean-going ships headed into the state’s...

T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook.

Senators on a key tax panel demanded a crackdown on offshore tax havens in the wake of a new report that one building in the Cayman Islands is used as a business...

Treasury prices rose Thursday after the National Association of Realtors reported that sales of previously owned homes fell in June to the lowest level in a decade and...

Business travel appears to be the latest victim of China’s ever-tightening security crackdown before the Beijing Olympics.

An influential shareholder advisory firm endorsed the re-election of Yahoo Inc.’s entire board Thursday, reducing the chances that the Internet company’s...

Federal regulators accused a Dutch trading firm, its chief executive and two other top employees Thursday of manipulating energy futures contracts on the New York...

Energy market investors tried but failed to start a rally in crude Thursday, and continued to drive natural gas prices sharply lower as a three-week sell-off of that...

PROFIT FALLS: Kimberly-Clark’s second-quarter profit fell 10 percent as it struggled to keep up with rising costs for energy and raw materials.