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.

The mayor announced Thursday the city's Bureau of Forestry would plant 3,000 new trees this year. (Streets and Sanitation Department).

An even larger increase in the horizontal rig count than last week, with new rigs concentrated in the Permian and in shale producing regions.

Alpha Natural Resources will emerge from bankruptcy with a plan to cover most, if not all, of its mine reclamation costs, but the payments for the cleanup could be made as late as 2025 and depend in part on the future financial performance of the ...