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.

(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 ...

(Repeats Friday story with no changes) (Updates to Friday close). By Chuck Mikolajczak. NEW YORK, July 8 The focus on Wall Street will shift to corporate earnings next week after a strong June jobs report on Friday gave investors confidence that the U ...

As it currently stands in the headline BLS figures, the Establishment Survey greatly rebounded to + 287k from a downward revised +11k in May.

Q: I understand paying benefits to widows. But I don't understand paying benefits to divorcees. A woman who is divorced is not a widow.

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.

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is set to release second quarter of fiscal 2016 (2QFY16) earnings results on July 21. In this regard, MKM Partners opined that the consensus projections are too low, especially with regard to the international growth and ...

An ash tree killed by emerald ash borers. Photo: Penn State, Creative Commons, some rights reserved. Inset: Emerald ash borer. Photo: StopTheBeetle, Creative Commons, some rights reserved.

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

Some 75,000 DTE Energy customers are without power, after a fierce band of storms whipped through southeast Michigan on Friday night.