Big Oil is set to spend billions on new exploration in 2009, but in addition to ocean beds thousands of feet below the water’s surface, major producers are...

Deflation might sound like a good thing. Yet it can be even rougher on the economy than the more familiar phenomenon of inflation, because it’s harder to get rid...

Wall Street retreated in another turbulent session Tuesday, as investors refrained from making big bets in a volatile market battered by a stream of weak economic...

Shares of Corning Inc. tumbled 17 percent to a five-year low Tuesday after the specialty glass maker lowered its fourth-quarter sales and profit guidance to reflect...

France will host a January meeting of world leaders and experts to look for ways out of the global financial crisis, the president’s office said Tuesday.

FREE OF CHAINS: Wisconsin-based Trek Bicycle is introducing two chainless models this holiday season, using technology most often found in things like motorcycles and...

Citigroup Inc. shares continued to fall Tuesday, as the struggling bank disclosed it expects consumer loan losses to rise sharply through the first half of 2009.

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President Alvaro Uribe says there is evidence that drug traffickers were linked to a company seized by the government during a nationwide panic over hundreds of...

Treasury bonds advanced Tuesday after a government report showed that wholesale prices plunged a record amount in October, a drop that could indicate a rising threat of...

Democratic leaders in Congress on Tuesday threw their weight behind a proposal to use $24 billion in government funds to help struggling borrowers, a move opposed by...

A spokesman for a Mexican billionaire who owns a large stake in Circuit City says there’s great market opportunity in the company, which is under bankruptcy...

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The holiday outlook for the luxury world turned grimmer Tuesday, after Saks Inc. reported a wider-than-expected loss in the fiscal third quarter, and both it and...

The Norwegian shipping group Odfjell SE has ordered its more than 90 tankers to sail all the way around Africa to avoid the risk of attack by Somali pirates, instead of...

The financial crisis is forcing European Union nations to reverse two decades of declining state subsidies for companies, the European Commission said Tuesday.

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi and German Chancellor Angela are taking a wait-and-see posture on aid to the auto industries that power both economies, while closely...

British Treasury chief Alistair Darling warned on Tuesday that any attempts to renegotiate the government’s 37 billion pound ($55 billion) bailout of several...

The National Association of Home Builders says its housing market index plunged to another record low this month as the U.S. financial crisis, rising unemployment and...

A wireless affiliate of Sprint Nextel Corp. has pulled its request that an Illinois judge block the planned spinoff of Sprint’s new broadband network.