INRIX Gridlock Index says traffic congestion increases as companies ship more, hire more and as consumers spend more.
The benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average stock index set a record high Tuesday, pushing through the 14,164 level reached in Oct. 2007.
Three years after it nearly sold its ailing German auto company, GM says it's committed to turning it around.
The March ISM reports shows that the services sector grew 0.8 percent in February to 56 percent.
Germany and France are now farther apart than at any other time in the 15-year history of the Markit PMI survey.
The studio behind the "50 Shades of Grey" porn parody, Smash Picutres, filed a counterclaim arguing that the erotic novel is public domain.
The LaFerrari has a 800-horsepower gasoline engine and a 163-horsepower electric motor.
In a 19th-century lower Manhattan skyscraper, a "mathematically minded" couple has created a modernistic fun house based on a dissertation.
India's patent office has rejected Bayer AG's challenge to letting an Indian company produce a generic of its cancer drug Nexavar.
Executives at the 83rd Geneva Car Show offered a grim prognosis for annual auto sales in the European Union.
Nokia Corp, Alcatel Lucent, Rio Tinto, United States Steel, Weyerhaeuser and J.C. Penney Co prevailed in the pre-market trading Tuesday.
While year-over-year monthly sales are still down for the Japanese auto giants, the declines are shrinking.
China's version of the the 2013 Forbes Billionaires list suggests that hundreds of Chinese billionaires are not being accounted for.
Medellín, once known as a center of drug trafficking, is trying to change its image through improvements to public security.
The U.S. stock index futures point to a higher open Tuesday ahead of the publication of the ISM's non-manufacturing PMI.
The top after-market Nasdaq gainers Monday were Ascena Retail, Santarus Inc, AcelRx Pharmaceuticals , Park-Ohio Holdings Corp, and Zoltek.
The top after-market NYSE gainers Monday were Navistar International Corp, Texas Industries, Nordion Inc, NQ Mobile and Dean Foods Co.
The 12th National People’s Congress meeting, China’s top legislative body, will convene Tuesday and close on March 17.
Mexico's manufacturing boom continued with Superior Industries International announcing a factory in the nation.
A recent analysis of more than 380 housing markets in the U.S. suggests the storm is over and recovery is in play.
The maker of Budweiser is using splashy newspaper ads to poke fun at a lawsuit that alleges its beer is watered down.
HSBC paid CEO Stuart Gulliver $11.1 million last year, despite missing cost and profit targets and a record money laundering fine.
It looks like U.S. energy self-sufficiency is now within reach, even as China becomes more import-dependent.
Almost 10 percent of Forbes 2013 list of 1,426 billionaires are women. Here are nine that were self-made.
Haruhiko Kuroda, Tokyo's nominee to be Bank of Japan's head honcho, vows to fight against deflation.
China's announcement that it will reel in stability-threatening real estate speculation sent related shares plummeting.
Transocean, Best Buy, Magna International, Wireless Ronin Technologies, Nokia Corp, Rio Tinto Plc, Joy Global and Credit Suisse Group AG are among the companies whose shares are moving in the pre-market trading Monday.
The U.S. stock index futures point to a lower open Monday as investor sentiment was weighed down by concerns over the U.S. spending cuts.
Asian stock markets declined Monday as sentiment was dampened after the Chinese government tightened measures to control rising property prices.
Tales of China's empty cities continue to fascinate because of the country's headlong rush into the development of real estate.
