NEW YORK The U.S. S&P 500 and Dow Jones industrial average stock indexes set record intraday highs on Tuesday after reduced global political tensions and upbeat corporate results from Alcoa boosted risk appetite, while European shares also rallied.

Blame pricier beans. It's becoming a summer ritual for Starbucks SBUX 0.60% : price hikes on many of its most popular drinks. The café giant on Tuesday raised the price of some items as much as 30 cents as it contends with rising coffee costs.

The sun was barely up on the East Coast, and Amazon shoppers were already snagging deals, including more than 18,000 headphones, and poking fun at some of the discounts available for the online retailer's Prime Day.

Tesla Motors Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk has no plans to disable the company's Autopilot function in the wake of a May crash of a Model S electric car using the technology, and the auto maker instead plans to redouble efforts to educate customers on ...

Heavy truck traffic to and from the CenterPoint Intermodal Center has taxed area roads and rattled residents, but officials expect the new toll bridge project will provide relief.

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says the upcoming pay raise is a move to keep the company “a retail employer of choice.” Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says the upcoming pay raise is a move to keep the company “a retail employer of choice.

Starbucks - The coffee chain will boost prices on selected coffee beverages at company-operated U.S. stores, effective today. Starbucks said certain sizes of brewed coffee will see increases of 10 cents to 20 cents per cup.

J.P. Morgan Chase JPM 1.57 % & Co. tellers are getting raises. James Dimon, chief executive of the nation's largest bank by assets, announced the firm will boost pay for 18,000 of its lower-tier employees over the next three years at a time when those ...

CARACAS - Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro put the armed forces in charge of a new food supply system aimed at alleviating crippling shortages, ceding yet more power to a military apparatus that is already involved in everything from banking to ...

Job openings fell to a five-month low and hiring dropped to an 18-month low in May. By Andrew Soergel | Staff Writer July 12, 2016, at 12:17 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Hiring, Openings Cool in Labor Market's Miserable May.