ZHANGLIDONG, China—Visitors can smell this village long before they see it. More than 100 dump trucks piled high with garbage line the narrow road...

First it was books. Now it’s DVDs. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. started another price war Thursday, trimming the online preorder prices of some upcoming...

Hopes for the fledgling economic recovery got a boost today from better-than-expected news on manufacturing, construction and contracts to buy homes.

Lender CIT Group has filed for Chapter 11 protection in an attempt to restructure its debt while trying to keep badly needed loans flowing to thousands...

DETROIT—Ford Motor Co. workers have overwhelmingly rejected contract changes that would have allowed the automaker to cut labor costs, a source said...

An autopsy shows an associate of jailed financial manager Bernard Madoff had a heart attack and drowned while swimming in the pool at his Palm Beach mansion....

The Treasury Department is ordering seven big companies that haven’t paid back last year’s government bailouts to halve their top executives’...

Bank of America Corp. lost more than $2.2 billion in the third quarter as loan losses kept rising, providing more evidence that consumers are still struggling...

One of the wealthiest men in America was among six financially influential people arrested by federal authorities Friday in a hedge fund insider trading...

Airlines shouldn’t be too cheap when it comes to helping customers whose bags are lost. The Transportation Department said airlines can’t arbitrarily...

Shopping for a credit card is a lot more complicated than it used to be. That might be a hard pill to swallow if your terms were unfavorably tweaked in...

The number of newly laid-off workers filing first-time claims for jobless benefits fell to the lowest level since early January, as layoffs eased a bit...

Americans are finally spending a little more, but they’re playing hard to get. A tally of sales at top nationwide stores managed a gain in September...

Senate Democrats said yesterday that they have reached a deal to extend unemployment insurance benefits to the nearly 2 million jobless workers across...

Before they reach store shelves, food and drinks proposed to be made for Kroger Co.‘s brands must pass muster with taste-testers who are paid in...

Painful cost-cutting and rising sales to automakers helped the nation’s largest aluminum producer return to profitability for the first time in nine...

People aren’t just shopping more at Family Dollar. They’re buying the lowest-priced stuff on its racks. Pizza Hut was left hungering for sales...

With even super-affluent shoppers tightening their Gucci belts, luxury retailer Neiman Marcus Group Inc. unveiled its Christmas Book with a nod to the...

The economy is having growing pains. Discouraging reports on unemployment and manufacturing reinforced worries that job losses and meager factory output...

Comcast Corp. might spend billions for a stake in NBC Universal, a deal that would transform the nation’s largest cable TV provider into one of the...

The International Monetary Fund said the global economy is recovering faster than expected — but that governments should not be hasty in withdrawing...

Major world leaders formed themselves into a new board of directors for the global economy Friday, vowing to overhaul lax financial regulations and work...

North Korea has shut down its largest wholesale market because of its apparent concern that big markets spread capitalist influence, a South Korean monitoring...

European and Asian markets mostly fell Friday as a lack of new economic data left investors to book profits on the week’s strong rally, which had...

For the week that ended Sept. 11. DIVIDENDS Quarterly unless noted Increased Brady Corp .175 from .17 NGP Capital Res .15 from .12 Village Supmkts A .23...

An ergonomics expert says American companies are going to need to make a lot of changes as they adjust to an increasingly gray-haired work force. A recent...

The Great Recession and Americans’ retreat into thriftiness are teaching retailers a new lesson: How to survive when consumers are focused on “needs”...