WASHINGTON -- The U.S. and the European Union will begin talks next month on an ambitious free-trade deal between the two rich regions, which exchanged more than $645 billion in goods last year.
But the announcement, made Monday ahead of the ...
WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve officials begin a pivotal two-day meeting Tuesday facing a dilemma. The economy is showing enough improvement to justify dialing back some of the Fed's life support, yet financial markets are terrified of what might ...
Smithfield Foods Inc. may be worth less as a whole than its separate parts, according to an activist investor asking the Virginia pork giant this week to reconsider its recent $4.7 billion sale to a Chinese meat producer.
Last month, Shuanghui ...
Reacting to recent news reports about government data-gathering from major Internet companies, Apple on Monday joined several other tech companies that have begun reporting how many requests for customer information it receives from U.S. law ...
Lowe's Cos. Inc. CEO Robert Niblock says the company's proposed acquisition of Orchard Supply Hardware Corp. would give the company a much-needed boost in the improving California market.
Lowe's announced plans on Monday to purchase the West ...
Barbara Adams, 70, keeps getting one of those annoying robocalls that she just knows has to be a scam. The voice implies that somebody -- her doctor or maybe her children -- signed her up for a medical alert system.
It's all free, the recording ...