12 hours ago - By Associated Press
General Motors Co. has won approval from environmental authorities in central China for a new $1.1 billion assembly plant, though the company says it has not yet decided on the plan.
12 hours ago - By Associated Press
Telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent said Friday that years of cost-cutting helped it make an annual profit in 2011, its first since its trans-Atlantic merger in 2006.

17 hours ago - By Associated Press
The leader of a junior partner in Greece's coalition government says his will not vote for new austerity measures, required for a massive new bailout deal to avoid bankruptcy.
13 hours ago - By Associated Press
U.S. retail sales of video game hardware, software and accessories fell 34 percent in January from a year earlier to $751 million due to the lack of new game titles, according to market researcher NPD Group.
13 hours ago - By Associated Press
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is looking at high-frequency traders to gauge their importance in the markets and consider possible new rules for them.
14 hours ago - By Associated Press
Total U.S. money market mutual fund assets fell $820 million to $2.657 trillion for the week that ended Wednesday, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.
15 hours ago - By The Associated Press, STR
The Securities and Exchange Commission is drafting proposals to further strengthen money-market mutual funds, two years after it approved an initial set of new rules in the wake of the financial crisis.

15 hours ago - By Mark Jewell, AP Personal Finance Writer
A fight is breaking out between the money-market mutual fund industry and federal regulators. Whatever the outcome, investors will question whether they can continue to rely on money funds as a safe place to keep cash readily accessible.
15 hours ago - By Associated Press
Demand for Treasurys weakened after Greece moved closer to a deal that would prevent the country from defaulting on its debt.
16 hours ago - By Associated Press
16 hours ago - By Sandy Shore, AP Business Writer
Wheat prices fell Thursday after the government predicted global inventories would reach a record high by summer.
16 hours ago - By Alan Sayre, Associated Press
Louisiana's property insurer of last resort has offered to settle a dispute over the slow handling of claims from hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 for up to $80 million.
17 hours ago - By Associated Press
Music mogul Russell Simmons wants New York's governor to pull the plug on milk from cows.
16 hours ago - By Associated Press

18 hours ago - By Pamela Sampson, AP Business Writer
World stock markets dropped Friday after Europe's finance ministers demanded more spending cuts from Greece before clearing a euro130 billion ($170 billion) bailout to stave off the country's bankruptcy.
19 hours ago - By Joyce M. Rosenberg, AP Business Writer
Business owners will find two new questions on their income tax forms this year:

23 hours ago - By Associated Press
Picture it: Save for a few disposable point-and-shoots, Kodak is exiting the camera business.