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The housing recovery seems to have a new leg based on a scarcity of supply coupled with low interest rates and growing demand.

Clearwire Corp said its special committee and its board of directors approved Sprint Nextel Corp's sweetened offer to take over the company and advised shareholders to vote for the deal. Wireless service ...

The media are abuzz with condemning assessments of HP's second quarter, due to be reported after market close Wednesday. Here’s the deal, though. HP has surprised to the upside the past three quarters. Should we expect the same contortion here?

Carrefour , Europe's largest retailer, is in advanced talks to divest its remaining 25-percent stake in its Middle Eastern joint venture to local partner Majid Al Futtaim , two sources familiar with the ...

Hewlett-Packard's nearly 50% gain so far this year has left it in a league of its own atop the 30 companies that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and yet, its support on Wall Street is razor thin.

Boeing Co is 90 percent finished with retrofits of the battery system on its 787 Dreamliner and should finish the rest by next week, Ray Conner, president of the company's commercial airplane division, ...

The Detroit automakers are largely forgoing the traditional two-week summer break at their factories and speeding up production to meet buyers' growing demand for new cars and trucks.

Toll Brothers Inc posted a 46 percent rise in quarterly profit as the largest U.S. luxury homebuilder sold more homes at higher prices, indicating that the housing recovery is spreading across the industry.

Apple put a fork in the traditional music industry. Then introduced the iPad, kicking off the demise of the PC market. Could the corporate income tax system be next?

Target Corp cut its full-year profit forecast on Wednesday while turning in a weak first quarter with disappointing sales, as a chilly start to spring kept shoppers from buying seasonal items like clothing. ...

Did Jamie Dimon's battle to keep both the CEO and Chairman titles actually strengthen his standing with JPMorgan Chase?

State-backed British lenders Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland have agreed plans to shore up their capital with the financial regulator, removing a barrier to the government offloading its ...

Marc Chandler, head of global currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman, has both good news and bad news for the legions of Ben Bernanke haters.

Target Corp. is reporting a 26 percent drop in first-quarter profits as cool temperatures and financial pressures limited customers' appetite for spending.

Pfizer Inc said on Wednesday it will spin off its majority stake in animal health business Zoetis Inc to shareholders by allowing them to swap Pfizer stock for Zoetis stock at a 7 percent discount. Pfizer, ...

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Apple's ability to shelter billions of dollars of income from tax has depended on an unusual loophole in the Irish tax code that helps the country compete with other countries for investment and jobs. ...