NEW YORK - Criminal charges have been filed against 14 people, including attorneys and Wall Street professionals, in a widening $53 million insider trading case that has already snared one of the richest men in America, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
NEW YORK - A drop in unemployment claims and an upbeat forecast from Cisco Systems Inc. gave investors new reason to be optimistic about the economy and sent stocks to big gains.
WASHINGTON - The volume of signed contracts to buy previously occupied homes rose for the eighth straight month in September as buyers scrambled to take advantage of a tax credit for first-time owners that expires at the end of this month.
WASHINGTON - After months of struggle, House Democrats rolled out sweeping legislation Thursday to extend health care coverage to millions who lack it and create a new option of government-run insurance.
WASHINGTON - The number of people claiming jobless benefits for the first time dropped less than expected last week, evidence that the labor market remains weak even as the economy is recovering.
The House passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. The Senate takes up the bill next.
Recent policy changes are making medical marijuana a very hot commodity. But as the industry multiplies seemingly overnight, questions about abuse, profits, and taxation are clouding expansion.
When the time comes to stop working and retire, where will you go? A new survey shows America's retirees aren't sticking to the old standbys of Arizona and Florida.
Google's Android 2.0 mobile operating system will get a huge boost from Verizon, which says its Droid phone knows more tricks than the iPhone. Do those tricks include minting money like Apple?
Google is using its domination of search advertising to confront Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and others. It can't possibly succeed everywhere at once. Or can it?
Billionaire financier Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is all in, buying the rest of railroad firm Burlington Northern Santa Fe that it doesn't already own. The deal is Berkshire Hathaway's biggest-ever acquisition.
Google, aggregating power by the day, is taking on the big boys of tech and media by announcing a dizzying array of products with one goal—to win advertising dollars both now and in a more mobile future.
With consumers cutting back on their grocery bills, farmers are caught in a double bind: losing money on the products they sell and having to borrow against their farms—in most cases tapping into equity that took years to build up.