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Mortgage rates were mixed this week as the index of leading indicators fell for the fifth straight month, home prices continued their decline and […]

ConAgra Foods Incorporated says its third-quarter profit soared 60% as it raised prices and improved sales. The year-ago results were depressed by recall costs, […]

Republican John McCain said Tuesday that government isn’t in the business of saving and rewarding banks or small borrowers who behave irresponsibly though he […]

The following recall has been announced:
About 13,000 camouflage eggs and spinning egg top toys, imported by Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. and made in China, […]

WASHINGTON — The aerospace and defense sector is bracing for a potential brain drain in the next decade as a generation of Cold War […]

The European Central Bank on Thursday offered up to $23.5 billion to cash-hungry banks, aimed at keeping them supplied through the four-day Easter holidays.
The […]

Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson warned on Wednesday first-quarter earnings could fall by more than half, adding to growing gloom in the handset sector […]

A state-owned Chinese financial firm wants to change its deal to buy into Bear Stearns Co. following the takeover of the troubled Wall Street […]

The rocky ride for the U.S. stock market is likely to intensify this week with the survival of one of the biggest investment banks […]

In his first public testimony since his company’s product became the subject of the largest recall of meat in U.S. history, the president of […]