Chinese President Hu Jintao was on a triumphant tour through Havana on Tuesday as his country expanded its already extensive economic relationship with the...

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange closed higher Tuesday.

Massachusetts’ top securities regulator on Tuesday accused Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. of fraud over the investment bank’s sales of auction-rate securities...

Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Tuesday after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel that both leaders hope Lufthansa can work out a collaboration deal with...

Oil prices fluctuated Tuesday even as the government reported that gasoline prices recorded their largest drop ever in October and prices for home heating oil, natural...

InBev SA formed the world’s largest brewer Tuesday when it finalized its $52 billion (euro41 billion) takeover of Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc.

France, the current holder of the European Union presidency, called Tuesday on EU regulators to show flexibility in applying state subsidy rules so governments could...

The Kroger Co. has opened its biggest “Fresh Fare” store yet and plans more of the stores aimed at luring eat-at-home and natural foods shoppers.

United Airlines said on Tuesday that a federal judge has barred its pilot union and four pilots from activities that disrupt the airline’s activities.

China on Tuesday dismissed suggestions that it is seeking to illegally obtain U.S. space technology after a scientist in the United States was convicted of violating...

Markets should not have been so surprised by the Bank of England’s large 1.50 percentage point rate cut in November because it was justified by the increasingly...

Even as they struggle amid the slowing economy, some states are giving retailers back about $1 billion in sales taxes each year as reimbursement for acting as tax...

Wall Street made a hesitant advance Tuesday, with investors refraining from making big bets in a volatile market battered by a stream of weak economic data.

The EU’s top labor affairs official said Tuesday there is no further need for Germany, Austria, Belgium and Denmark to keep in place job restrictions on citizens...

Finland’s government said it will hike the tax on alcohol by 10 percent next year in an attempt to discourage heavy drinking.

Deutsche Lufthansa AG said Tuesday its CityLine regional carrier will cut 20 percent of its 2,500-person work force and scale back the size of its fleet as it trims...

A Belgian commercial court on Tuesday threw out a shareholder challenge to the fire sale of troubled bank Fortis to France’s BNP Paribas.

Takeover talks for bankrupt budget airline Sterling A/S failed Tuesday because of disagreements between the potential buyer and a labor union representing flight crews,...

Shares of Corning Inc. tumbled 12 percent Tuesday after the specialty glass maker lowered its fourth-quarter sales and profit guidance to reflect slumping demand for...

The National Association of Realtors says home prices fell in four out of five U.S. cities in the third quarter, the latest sign of how the U.S. housing market’s...