BUSINESS

The world’s top-selling automaker announced a 13.5 percent rise in second-quarter profit, but cut its annual sales target because of slowing sales in emerging markets.

While men's salaries kept increasing until the age of 50 to 55, the report showed women's wages hit a plateau between 35 to 40 years old.

A leader of the ruling party says the opposition leader has the people's support.

The deal is the latest in a series of increasingly expensive acquisitions Expedia has undertaken over the past year in order to compete with its rival Airbnb.

Investors will keep a close eye on Thursday's event at the New York Fed, where many top policy makers -- including IMF Chief Christine Lagarde -- are scheduled to speak.

The company will declare third-quarter earnings a day after announcing it would shutter seven plants and eliminate jobs.

Talks have dragged on for more than three years, and in November 2014 the U.S. National Mediation Board stepped in to oversee negotiations.

A 21 percent drop extended a fall that occurred Wednesday, after Honda announced it would no longer use the company's front air-bag inflators.

Raising rates sooner rather than later would allow the Fed to take a gradual approach to further hikes, to avoid market disruptions, the Fed chair said.

Janet Yellen's comments confirmed that a rate hike in December "is the Fed's base-case scenario," Nomura Securities' Tomoaki Shishido said.

Major companies have more work to do to comply with the first U.S. disclosure law addressing human trafficking and slavery in the global marketplace, a report says.

Five factors are at play in Bitcoin's double-digit gains against the dollar, but enthusiasts are troubled by one of them.

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives launched a task force Wednesday in an attempt to combat the skyrocketing prices of drugs.

An overcrowded plane, paired with lax safety standards, likely contributed to the crash of a Soviet-era plane in South Sudan Wednesday.

U.S. stocks were down Wednesday after starting November on strong footing. Data show U.S. job growth signals a slowdown.

But now Apple has reportedly hired hundreds of staff to work on a electric vehicle, codenamed "Project Titan."

If the Navy proceeds, it would enable F/A-18 manufacturer Boeing to secure St. Louis jobs through the end of 2018.

The “physical extension” of Amazon.com, which opened Tuesday, had been in the works for a year, the company says, but its grand opening surprised many.

As prices and demand continue to fall, the world's largest freight carrier looks to cut costs and remain profitable.

Coal giant Murray Energy, now under fire for its safety record, told miners they were filing too many complaints with the government, regulators say.

Activists have unveiled a well-funded, heavily endorsed pot legalization initiative. Will it be enough to unify California's fractured marijuana movement?

The Asian rally -- led by China, where the Shanghai Composite ended the day's trade up 4.3 percent -- pushed global stocks higher Wednesday.

Shares surged after the People's Bank of China published comments which hinted at a 2015 launch for the Shenzhen-Hong Kong stock connect program.

The Thai government has reversed its position against farmer subsidies as the country's rural economy sputters from falling commodity prices and exports.

The jury began deliberating in a landmark trial in Manhattan, in a case that could set a precedent for other high-profile Libor-rigging scandals.

Anheuser-Busch InBev now has until 12 p.m. EST on Nov. 11 to submit a formal takeover offer for SABMiller. The previous deadline was set to expire Wednesday.

A Chicago jury deliberated for less than an hour before finding Michael Coscia, who was the first to be tried under the anti-spoofing law in the U.S., guilty.

On Tuesday, the U.S. NHTSA fined Takata $70 million for lapses in its air bags and ordered it to stop using a chemical in its product.

The first-of-its-kind hearing will focus on the U.S. Federal Reserve's plans for regulating the nation's banks and overseeing its financial system.