NEW YORK -- The Obama administration plans to order companies that have received exceptionally large amounts of bailout money from the government to slash compensation for their highest-paid executives by about ...

Stocks tumbled into the red in the final hour of trading after banking analyst Dick Bove cut his investment rating on Wells Fargo to "sell" from "hold.

Figures just published suggest the country exceeded its target for economic growth for the first time this year in the third quarter.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Motors Co needs to overcome an entrenched corporate culture and blood new managers as it seeks to recover from its near failure, the former chief of the Obama administration's autos task force said on ...

Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve district banks identified commercial real estate as the weakest part of the economy, while most saw “stabilization or modest improvements” in areas including housing and manufacturing.

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- EBay Inc. reported a drop in third-quarter earnings Wednesday afternoon, though revenue for the quarter came in notably higher than Wall Street's estimates as the company's core online ...

AP President Barack Obama unveiled plans Wednesday to refocus spending of the government's $700 billion financial bailout away from Wall Street's big financial institutions and toward small businesses on Main Street.

HONG KONG -- The Chinese government's first yuan bond sale in Hong Kong met strong demand as investors bid for three times the amount of debt on offer amid hopes for a stronger Chinese currency.

The US airline industry needs a stable economy and a reliable regulatory environment to make it more attractive to investors, Continental Airlines CEO and Chairman Larry Kellner said Wednesday.

The National Transportation Safety Board said it would investigate the landing before dawn on Monday of a Delta Air Lines flight from Rio de Janeiro to Atlanta on a taxiway at the Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport, ...

Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co. will choose between Everett, Washington, and Charleston, South Carolina, for a second 787 Dreamliner assembly plant in the next couple of weeks as it considers diversifying its workforce to avoid strikes ...

MELBOURNE (Dow Jones)--GE Oil & Gas said Thursday it has been awarded a US$400 million contract to deliver liquefied natural gas technology for the A$43 billion Gorgon project of the coast of Western Australia.

Bank of America has agreed to sell First Republic Bank of San Francisco to a group of investors including First Republic's management and funds managed by Colony Capital and General Atlantic.

A former Atherton woman is reportedly the key witness to the government's insider trading case involving top tech and hedge fund executives.

RICHMOND, Va. - The Marlboro Man roped in a larger portion of the cigarette market even as smokers bought fewer of Altria Group Inc.'s cigarettes in the third quarter.

about $5.5 billion for the year ending in March, while KDDI Corp slid after a brokerage downgrade. 'The stock market is taking a breather.

SEOUL—State-run Korea National Oil Corp., or KNOC, signed a contract to buy Canada-based Harvest Energy Trust for C$1.8 billion (US$1.7 billion), marking the largest acquisition of a foreign oil firm by a South Korean company.

Northrop Grumman posts a third-quarter profit of $490 million, down 4% from a year earlier. Boeing's plane troubles lead to a $1.6-billion loss.