Shares of M&T Bank Corp. slid Thursday, but not as much as other regional bank stocks, after a Citi Investment Research analyst praised the Buffalo, N.Y.-based regional bank even as he downgraded its stock.

Shares of OfficeMax Inc. climbed in Thursday trading, after an analyst said the struggling office supply chain has a chance to increase its market share as a competitor shuts more than 100 stores.

Analysts lowered their price targets for General Mills Inc. on Thursday but said they still back the food maker, which has reported that high costs pushed down its third-quarter profit even though sales rose.

Kathy Lovelace lost her job and was about to lose her house, too. But then she made a seemingly simple request of the bank: Show me the original mortgage paperwork.

The robber’s threatening note made a Chicago bank job easy to solve: The FBI says the suspect wrote it on his pay stub.

Talk about leaving a trail. A man allegedly robbed a Chicago bank Friday after writing a threatening note on the back of his own pay stub, which included his name and home address. An FBI affidavit said a 40-year-old man walked into a Fifth Third Bank and

Note to prominent people doing questionable things: Don’t invite authorities or the press to check up on you while you do it.

Note passing, name calling, playground scuffles and widespread gossip. Sound like the fifth grade? Well, that, too.

Note to Main Street: Congress loves you.

An Israeli newspaper’s decision to publish a handwritten prayer left by Barack Obama in the cracks of Jerusalem’s Western Wall drew criticism Friday as an invasion of his privacy and his relationship with God.In the note, placed at Judaism’s holiest...