Crooks set sights on bank ATMs Stop and look before inserting your card into an ATM machine. Crooks have been tampering with automated teller machines...

For the week that ended Nov. 6. DIVIDEND Quarterly unless noted Increased Aaron’s Inc .018 from .017 Alliance Res Ptrs .76 from .745 Apollo Invest...

Richmond biopharmaceutical company Insmed Inc. reported it lost $150,000 in the quarter ending Sept. 30, compared with a loss of $2.2 million in the same...

Stocks post modest gains despite bad news on jobs NEW YORK Investors undaunted by a surprisingly weak jobs report found enough positive news to nudge stocks...

Philip Morris USA and two other cigarette companies can stop making payments to tobacco farmers in Maryland and Pennsylvania through a decade-old settlement....

Richmond’s unemployed workers did the best they could to shake off yesterday’s bad news that the U.S. unemployment rate hit double digits....

The Hungary Brook Shopping Center in northern Henrico County is in foreclosure and on the auction block. The retail center, on Concord Avenue near Parham...

Markel Corp. has been patient for the past four years, but the specialty insurer now is looking to make a bigger plunge in what it thinks of as the “patient...

The federal economic-stimulus plan is working for small businesses in Virginia, a senior SBA official told the Virginia Asian Chamber of Commerce’s...

The Martin Agency and five other agencies are competing to handle advertising for General Motors Co.‘s Cadillac division. GM said it narrowed its...

Higher prices for North American tobacco have boosted Universal Corp.‘s earnings so far this fiscal year despite a drop in shipments of leaf. Volumes...

October’s retail sales results, the best performance since April 2008, show that Americans are spending a little more. But will they be willing to...

Missed out on Cash for Clunkers? Congress has another deal for you: Buy a home before May 1 and collect up to $6,500 from the government. If you’re...

Jobs data, Cisco report send stocks over 10,000 NEW YORK Abright forecast from Cisco Systems and upbeat economic news sent stocks soaring yesterday and...

The house was an icon in Richmond’s Union Hill, standing higher than street level in a neighborhood bordering Church Hill. But it also was an eyesore,...

The Federal Reserve pledged yesterday to keep a key interest rate at a record low for an “extended period,“ signaling that the weak economy...

The most common deals under the government’s $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program, aimed at putting more fuel-efficient cars on the road, replaced...

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield says the problem with health-care reform is that people who avoid the proposed requirement to buy insurance won’t...

Star Scientific Inc. said yesterday that it plans to introduce the CigRx nutraceutical product developed by its Rock Creek Pharmaceuticals subsidiary for...

NEW YORK Some of fashion’s best-known names are playing musical chairs. Faced with a consolidating department store industry and eroding sales, some...

Virginia’s attorney general is urging the State Corporation Commission to either cut Dominion Virginia Power’s electric rates this year or...

Stocks end mixed after investor optimism fades NEW YORK Alate-day slump left stocks mixed yesterday as investors couldn’t hold on to their optimism...

Kraft Foods said slower sales, lower retail food prices and the comparison with a gain a year ago helped cut its third-quarter profit 40 percent, but the...

Sometimes, you need to spend money to make money—as The Brink’s Co. Inc. has done, breaking step with most American businesses by contributing...

The University of Virginia and Virginia Tech are seeking federal economic-stimulus money to help build a manufacturing research center aimed at fostering...

Two retailers are expected to open within a day of each other this month. Appliance and consumer electronics retailer hhgregg is scheduled to open its...

After months of fluctuating sales, the auto industry offered signs of recovery from its yearlong slump, as most automakers reported yesterday higher levels...

Commuters who drive alone on some of the most congested highways in the Washington region could earn $2 a day by carpooling to work. Commuter Connections,...

Even with the Federal Reserve widely expected to leave interest rates at a record low today to nurture the fragile recovery, fissures are growing among...

Commonwealth Cancer Institute, a small radiology practice in Richmond’s Carver neighborhood, has filed for bankruptcy protection. The Chapter 11...