The company is considered a bellwether for the U.S. and global economy. Here's why.
It's the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty, and poverty rates remain relatively unchanged. Why?
Nineteen workers represented by the NLRB claim that Wal-Mart Stores violated labor law by firing them while on strike.
Unemployment is down, growth is steady: Colombia may not be an exciting economy right now, but it's chugging along just fine.
Recent oil-by-rail explosions caused by derailments have made local officials nervous about increased oil shipments passing through their towns.
Morgan Stanley and General Electric Company reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings results on Friday.
The World Bank reported that informal trade between Tunisia, Libya and Algeria is on the rise, but experts say intervention could be more expensive.
A new report shows that within a few months 39% of California’s population will be Latino, and there are quite a few economic implications.
Royal Dutch Shell, Europe's largest oil company, cautioned investors that it will miss its fourth-quarter earnings forecast.
Smaller retail shops had a different holiday season than their large-store counterparts did.
Industry sources say the Chinese central bank bought over 1,600 tons of gold since its last official announcement on the topic in 2009.
This chart shows just why UPS got slammed with much more delivery traffic than it expected over the holiday season.
GE's expansion into the broader energy sector is paying off
The battle between Samsung and Apple moves to subsidies as iPhone rolls out on China Mobile.
The holiday-shortened week is chock-full of market-moving earnings reports.
Beijing’s one-child policy reform appears to be shaping up as a piecemeal effort.
The United Arab Emirates may have welcomed 10 new skyscrapers in 2013, but another nation completed three times as many.
Netflix is the first non-TV network to win an Emmy award. Its political drama, 'House of Cards,' won three in 2013.
Earnings from GE and other majors, and numbers on housing starts, industrial production and consumer sentiment will influence investors.
The London-based publisher agreed to destroy copies of a controversial book and apologized to a former aviation minister, local media reported.
Congress gave its final go-ahead to the spending bill Thursday but not before some last-minute drama held up the decision.
The 29,655 Bitcoins ($28M) were forfeited because they were "the proceeds of crimes.”
Intel Corp. shares dropped more than 4 percent after the bell on Thursday after the chipmaker reported mixed fourth-quarter earnings.
The measure, which departs from typical partisan-propelled politics, headed to President Obama, who is expected to sign it into law.
CTO Jeffrey Straubel received a performance-based option to buy 220,000 of those shares at last Monday’s closing TSLA price.
Global industrial robot sales are booming. U.S. manufacturing jobs ... not so much.
Retailers could realize an enormous revenue gain and/or cost savings in the coming decade by adopting “smart” device tech.
Shares of tech wunderkind Elon Musk's SolarCity are rallying after Deutsche Bank gives the stock a thumbs up.
A new report disclosed that a cross-section of America's biggest companies have given millions to political nonprofits.
Despite the territorial conflicts over the Senkaku/ Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea, Chinese tourists are still flocking to Japan.