It's been said that Roger Ailes runs the influential, highly rated Fox News Channel like a feisty political campaign, quick to respond in no-holds-barred fashion to real and perceived critics.

SHANGHAI In the face of a "worrying" rise in protectionism, trade ministers from the world's major economies have agreed to cut trade costs, increase policy coordination and enhance financing, China's Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng said on Sunday.

High-flying equity prices should not be accompanied by record low government bond yields. But these are not normal times, far from it.

Nonfarm payroll jobs in June jumped by 287,000—enough to put breath back into the three-month employment trend, but still left it growing at a modest pace.

The popularity of online retailer Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) has skyrocketed over the last decade as brick-and-mortar businesses, including big chain retailers like Sears and Toys "R" Us, have seen a decline in sales and have closed stores around the ...

(Repeats story for wider distribution). By Caroline Humer and Diane Bartz. NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, July 8 Aetna Inc executives met with top Justice Department antitrust officials on Friday to convince the government that asset sales it proposed would ...

Gap (NYSE:GPS) has been mercilessly punished in the past year or so, as its status as a dividend stock has recently been overshadowed by some pretty horrible numbers.

Shares of Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) have soared nearly 70% over the past 12 months, extending its 250% gain over the past five years. After that big rally, some investors might be wondering if it's finally time to sell the stock.

"We are starting to see exit holes in the trees in areas we hadn't seen them before so that tells us the pest is there," Donna Lacey, forestry technician at the Saugeen Conservation Authority, said Thursday.

(Adds Permian rig count in paragraph) July 8 U.S. drillers this week added oil rigs for a fifth week in six, according to a closely followed report Friday, prompting analysts to predict the rig count has bottomed and production will start to edge up ...