Business News

As Federal Reserve nears decision on first rate hike since 2006, Wall Street outlines two risk scenarios.          

Reuters/Sean Yong China has begun implementing an official policy for a 4.5-day working week as part of an effort to increase domestic consumption and leisure spending. Chongqing is the first city taking steps to reduce ...

Wen Hair Care is endorsed by celebrities but now facing legal troubles

3M cuts full-year earnings outlook, cites continued slow growth of global economy

Seattle becomes the first city in the nation to allow drivers of ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft to unionize over pay and work conditions.

Fines could be as high as 4% of a company's global revenue          

Apple shares dipped below $110 for the first time since October as analysts predict a decline in sales over the holiday season.          

Chicago-based Cision will acquire news release distribution company PR Newswire for $841 million, the companies said Tuesday. Cision, a media intelligence company, is owned by Chicago-based private equity firm GTCR. PR N...

Germany's Boehringer Ingelheim, France's Sanofi eye multibillion health care asset swap deal

WASHINGTON -- Combustion Associates Inc. needed assistance from the Export-Import Bank to secure a multimillion-dollar contract to build a power plant in Nigeria. But a political dispute forced the 81-year-old federal ag...

Tsinghua Unigroup has entered tricky territory with its bid to buy a stake in Taiwanese chip maker Siliconware Precision.

Terrorists use credit cards to travel -- Brighterion's anti-fraud detects behavioral changes which might help stop them.

Flickr / Audrey Have a cable Internet subscription and noticing slower-than-normal download speeds? If you live in New York, it might not be just you. On Sunday, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman invited subscr...

Asian shares stabilized early Tuesday as jitters about the high-yield bond market receded and oil prices recovered slightly, a reprieve from deep selling across the region a day earlier.

Natural-gas prices plunged to a 14-year low Monday, as an unusually warm winter saps demand and deals another blow to struggling energy companies.

Q2 is the most important quarter for the shipping giant because of heavy demand for its services during the holiday season. If all goes well, the company could be handsomely rewarded and could see great gains on its reve...

Quoting a Facebook mantra, COO Facebook Sheryl Sandberg said that gender and racial “inequities” are “everyone’s problem” in an Ask Me Anything-style forum on Quora. She was answering a question about what men ...

Eventually the Federal Reserve will raise rates. The only question is when, not if. Rates can't stay at zero forever. That raises the question: Where is the best place to invest your money when the Fed raises rates?

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Workday Inc (NYSE: WDAY), where a total volume of 8,535 contracts has been traded thus far today, a co...

EXCLUSIVE: Companies pay supermarkets to showcase their products right at eye level; Mabaya wants to help online retailers to do the same. The Tel Aviv startup announced today that it closed a $2.25 seed round to help �...

Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in CVS Health Corporation (NYSE: CVS), where a total of 25,718 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately...

More and more companies of every size and from every industry have begun to take the topic of sustainability more seriously these days, which you can define as the practice of cutting back on the environmental impact of ...