BUSINESS

Chinese industrial companies' profits fell at their fastest rate in four years, official data showed.

The acquisition is calculated to give Energy Transfer a new foothold in the Gulf of Mexico and a dominant position in the Northeast's Marcellus Shale area.

The San Francisco company's growth comes despite legal battles over who can list properties and how they should be zoned and taxed.

Merchants have claimed that the credit card companies prevented retailers from encouraging customers to use cheaper payment methods.

The country's sinking mobile phone sales are the latest example of how currency concerns are affecting average citizens.

The Environmental Protection Agency's revised health and safety standards cover about 2 million agricultural workers nationwide.

The German automaker's emissions cheating scandal threatens to dampen interest among U.S. car buyers for diesel-powered engines, industry insiders said.

Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform want Valeant to provide documents on huge price increases for two of its products.

Clothing makers and retailers are increasingly trying to broaden their appeal by using minority models -- and there is evidence that it's working. 

"We need to [work with] regional and local actors to get more international investment to Sweden."

The medication could generate billions for the company.

Several Fed officials have indicated they could raise benchmark interest rates in October, but others suggest it may happen later.

Six major U.S. banks, including Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Citi, urged leaders meeting in New York Monday to adopt a strong climate agreement.

The Dow dropped by 300 points Monday, as market watchers awaited word from the Fed on an inevitable interest-rate hike.

Coal, oil and gas showed some of the most significant decreases following last month's crash of the Shanghai Composite Index.

The grocer said the move is "part of its ongoing commitment to lower prices for its customers and invest in technology upgrades while improving its cost structure."

Many Greeks aren't happy with the flood of refugees arriving on their shores, but some are using the new arrivals to their advantage.

The decision was taken in order to account for slowing global aluminum demand as China's appetite for the metal shrinks.

Volkswagen faces at least $18 billion in fines in the U.S. alone, and has lost more than a quarter of its share value, since the automaker admitted last week to cheating on emissions tests.

Meanwhile, a European organization said it had found that the company's gasoline-powered cars consumed significantly more fuel than tests showed.

Switzerland's WEKO watchdog said its investigation, the result of a preliminary probe, was looking at whether UBS, Julius Baer, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Barclays, Morgan Stanley and Mitsui conspired to set bid/ask spreads.

Investors continued to exercise caution ahead of the release of key economic indicators in the U.S. and China.

The company, which won approval in August to drill the Burger J well in the Chukchi Sea, said indications of potential were insufficient to warrant further exploration.

At a speech in California Sunday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi picked out terrorism and global warming as the two main challenges to humanity.

Comcast, the largest U.S. cable operator, is seeking to expand its business operations abroad after its attempted takeover of Time Warner fell through.

The deadly crash occurred Thursday when an amphibious duck boat and a motorcoach collided, killing five people and injuring dozens.

Countries around the world have launched their own investigations after the company was caught cheating on tests in the United States.

The Gulf nation has repatriated about $73 billion from global asset managers in recent months.

"The percentage of our business that's diesel is very small," says Jed Kass, a Volkswagen dealer in the Brooklyn borough of New York.