WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration is planning to take several actions aimed at calling out China for efforts to steal intellectual secrets from American high-tech companies, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The Justice Department is set to indict a number of alleged hackers it believes work for Chinese intelligence, ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- On her first full day leading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Kathy Kraninger said she won't be a clone of Mick Mulvaney, the controversial acting director who she replaced in the powerful regulatory position.

To underscore that point, the former White House aide said she would even reconsider a Mulvaney action that ...Read more

Latin America's two largest markets will start 2019 in the hands of new populist presidents who pledge to overturn decades of consensus policies in an effort to revitalize growth and boost investor confidence.

In Mexico, traders are watching to see whether President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador turns campaign rhetoric into political reality ...Read more

Dell Technologies shareholders on Tuesday voted to take the Round Rock, Texas-based tech giant public after five years as a private company.

Based on a preliminary vote tally, shareholders approved the reverse merger -- valued at more than $23.7 billion -- which industry analysts expected would pass. The vote means that Dell will once again be ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- For Wall Street lobbyists, December is the time for holiday cocktail parties and last-ditch efforts to win favors from lawmakers.

With less than two weeks for Congress to cut a deal to fund federal agencies, financial firms and their allies on Capitol Hill have begun the annual ritual of trying to attach goodies to must-pass ...Read more

Target has agreed to pay nearly $3 million to resolve allegations that it violated the federal and Massachusetts state law by submitting claims in violation of rules against Medicaid prescriptions from being automatically refilled.

The settlement also means hundreds of thousands of dollars for a former Target pharmacist in the Twin Cities who ...Read more

Inside the library of a Hollywood Hills home, actress Tiffany Chu gazed expectantly at the camera, waiting for guidance from the audience. Should she greet the neighbor with a handshake, a hug, or a kiss?

"I will do what they say," Chu said in a monotone voice as the character of Sophie, a robot who yearns to become human. "I've come to trust ...Read more

Q: After a lengthy series of interviews with a company in my community, I was recently given a job offer. The problem is that I have conflicting feelings about whether to accept.

The job itself is quite appealing and in line with my career goals. However, the interview process was extremely disorganized, and I found it difficult to communicate ...Read more

Q: I've been running my small business for about 15 years, and all was well until the last year or so. Sales have been dropping, longtime customers have disappeared, and I don't know how to get back on a path to growth. What should I do?

-- Marie, 44, retail owner

A: It sounds like it's time for a business update.

If you're still selling the ...Read more

The most wonderful time of the year is also the most hectic time of the year for shipping services like FedEx and UPS.

Both UPS and FedEx say they expect to handle a record number of packages this holiday season. UPS is forecasting nearly 800 million items, up from 762 million last year, while FedEx declined to provide an estimate. Both also ...Read more

It's almost pointless to say that conflicts of interest abound as the country's first billionaire president continues populating his administration with captains of industry. Just last week, President Trump nominated the former general counsel of Verizon Communications to serve as attorney general.

Yet every so often we're reminded that no ...Read more

About two dozen Southern California hotels could be hit with a strike as early as Wednesday, as 7,500 local workers try to exercise their union's growing muscle, built through a series of successful strikes against hotels this year around the nation.

Members of Unite Here Local 11 in Los Angeles and Orange counties voted 96 percent in favor of ...Read more

MONTREAL -- A jailed executive of Chinese telecom giant Huawei will need to wait at least one more day to find out whether she will be released on bail, after her hearing in a Canada court continued through Monday.

Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer and the daughter of founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested in Vancouver earlier this ...Read more

A Superior Court judge has ruled that Tesla was engaging in illegal sales out of its Greenwich, Conn., gallery in another local setback for the California electric car maker.

In the judgment last week, Judge Joseph M. Shortall wrote: "If Tesla was not engaged in the business of selling motor vehicles at the gallery, it's difficult to see what ...Read more

Equifax Inc. failed to modernize its technology security to match the company's aggressive growth strategy and data gathering, a shortcoming that left it open to the 2017 hack that compromised the information of 148 million people, according to a House Oversight Committee report.

"Had the company taken action to address its observable security ...Read more