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Toyota Warns Against Wrong-Size Floor Mats

Toyota's president said it was "extremely regrettable" an American family died in a crash in which a floor mat in one of the Japanese automaker's ...

Toyota Unveils Bigger Hybrid-Only Model

Toyota Motor Corp. has unveiled a more expensive and bigger hybrid-only model than its hit Prius, underlining the Japanese automaker's ambitions to make green technology ...

China Crosses 10 Mil. A Year Auto Production Mark

China's annual auto production surpassed 10 million for the first time on Tuesday, as a new "Liberation" model truck rolled off the assembly line at ...

Video Game Sales Improve in September

After six straight months of double-digit declines, U.S. video game sales finally saw an improvement in September. But the rebound was much more muted than ...

Honda May Move Fit Production to U.S.

Honda Motor Co. says it may move production of the popular Fit hatchback to the U.S. to offset the effects of a stronger yen. Spokesman ...

Morgan Stanley Sells Consumer Unit to Invesco

Morgan Stanley said Tuesday it will sell its retail asset management business, including the Van Kampen division, to money manager Invesco Ltd. for $1.5 billion ...

Apple Earnings Surge 47% on iPhone Sales

Apple Inc. increased its net income 47 percent in the most recent quarter as more people bought Mac computers and gave in to the iPhone ...

Stocks Rise as Earnings Beat Views

Investors found a fresh appetite for stocks Monday after a handful of earnings reports revived hopes that the economy is improving.

GM Rescinds Spring's White-Collar Pay Cuts

General Motors Co. has rescinded white-collar pay cuts it made last spring as it desperately tried to conserve cash and avoid filing for bankruptcy protection. ...

NEC, Casio, Hitachi to Merge Cell Phone Business

Japanese electronics makers NEC Corp., Casio Computer Co. and Hitachi said Monday they will combine their mobile phone handset-manufacturing operations by April next year in ...

Majority of Americans Still Troubled by Economy

One year after Wall Street teetered on the brink of collapse, seven out of 10 Americans lack confidence the federal government has taken safeguards to ...

World Markets Rattled by U.S.-China Tire Tariff Dispute

European and Asian markets fell Monday, shaken by news of a trade dispute between the U.S. and China over tariffs on tires. Germany's DAX fell ...

U.S. Banks Return to Risky Investments

A year after the financial system nearly collapsed, the nation's biggest banks are bigger and regaining their appetite for risk. Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and ...

Last U.S. China Maker Survives on Vintage Design

Born of the Great Depression, it was a glossy, color-saturated line of cups, bowls and plates meant to affordably brighten lives and dinner tables. Seven ...

American, Delta Mull Stake in JAL

American Airlines parent AMR Corp. is negotiating for closer ties and possibly an investment in financially troubled Japan Airlines Corp., according to a person familiar ...

Airlines Cut Flights to Lowest Level Since 2001

The U.S. airline industry is shrinking to a size not seen since the months after the 2001 terror attacks. The airlines have been trimming flights ...

Struggling JAL Considers Tieup with Air France-KLM

Struggling Japan Airlines Corp. has entered talks with Air France-KLM over a capital tie-up, a newspaper said Saturday. Asia's biggest airline hopes to expand its ...

JAL Shares Surge on American, Delta Interest

Shares of Japan Airlines Corp. surged Monday amid speculation that American Airlines and Delta Air Lines are vying to buy stakes in the money-losing carrier. ...

World Stocks Rise on Good News from China, U.S.

European and Asian stock markets rose Friday on strong economic data from China and comments by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who said the financial ...

China Output, Consumer Spending Surged in August

China's recovery gained momentum in August as stimulus spending helped boost industrial output, investment and retail sales in the world's third-largest economy, offsetting a slump ...

China's Exports, Trade Surplus Fell in August

China's exports languished in August, contracting 23 percent, increasing the onus on Beijing's massive stimulus spending to drive an economic recovery. Customs data released Friday ...

Japan's Q2 Growth Was Weaker Than Estimated

Japan's growth in the second quarter was weaker than initially thought, but government figures still show that the world's second largest economy has managed to ...

GM Kicks Off Aggressive Money-Back Campaign

General Motors kicks off a marketing campaign next week pitched by its new chairman and featuring a money-back guarantee — unsatisfied car buyers can get ...

Chinese Gov't to Help Finish Revel's Atlantic City Casino

Revel Entertainment has turned to the Chinese government for help finishing its lavish Atlantic City casino. China State Construction Engineering Corp., the construction arm of ...

Trade, Jobless Data Support Recovery Optimism

The U.S. trade deficit in July hit the highest level in six months as a record rise in imports outpaced a third straight increase in ...

Rick Niu Promoted to CMO for ING's US Retirement Services

Rick Niu, who has been heading up ING's multicultural growth strategy and execution in the U.S., was promoted to chief marketing officer for ING U.S. ...

IRS Eases Commercial Mortgage Refinancing Rules

The IRS issued new rules Tuesday designed to make it easier to refinance some commercial real estate loans in an effort to curb the number ...

Kodak to Shore Up Balance Sheet with Capital Infusion

Eastman Kodak Co. said Wednesday it expects to raise up to $700 million through a series of debt sales in an effort to shore up ...

China's BYD Sets Sights on Overtaking Toyota

Fast-growing Chinese battery and automaker BYD Co. is thinking big — really big. It aims to overtake Toyota Motor Co. to become the global auto ...

Asia Markets at New Highs for Year

Asian stock markets climbed to new highs for the year Thursday after strong U.S. industrial production data boosted confidence the world's largest economy is growing ...

Google to Turn Digital Library into Paperbacks

Google Inc. is giving 2 million books in its digital library a chance to be reincarnated as paperbacks. As part of a deal announced Thursday, ...

Manufacturers Lead Growth With Broad-Based Gains

Signaling that manufacturers are leading the economy into a recovery, output from the nation's factories, mines and utilities posted widespread gains in August. In a ...

World Markets Surge on End to U.S. Recession

World stock markets rallied Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. recession was likely over, a view largely supported by recent economic ...

Financial Reform Push Gives Way to Inertia, Complacency

The rule book for Wall Street may not change that much after all. Tougher financial rules that seemed inevitable after last year's crisis have been ...

Cablevision Debuts Interactive Ads on TV

Cablevision Systems Corp. is bringing interactive banner ads to television, allowing viewers to order samples and brochures and even purchase products by clicking the remote ...

China Could Be $1 Tril. Green Tech Market

China potentially could be a $500 billion to $1 trillion a year market for environmentally sustainable "green technologies," a group of businesses and experts said ...

Shane Kim to Retire from 14-Year Post As Xbox Guru

Shane Kim, the Microsoft Corp. executive who oversaw the growth of its video game business from the original Xbox and through such hits as "Halo" ...

Retail, Manufacturing Data Boost Wall Street

Investors waded deeper into the stock market Tuesday as a batch of economic reports provided mostly upbeat signals about the economy. Retail sales jumped in ...

Japan Air Lines Hopes to Conclude Merger Talks Soon

Struggling Japan Airlines Corp. said Tuesday it aims to conclude tie-up talks with foreign carriers by mid-October and announced plans to slash 14 percent of ...

August Retail Sales Up Mainly on Auto, Gas

Consumers bought hundreds of thousands of cars in August due mainly to the government's popular Cash for Clunkers program, but economists expect Americans didn't boost ...

Citi Plans $5 Bil. Stock Offering to Cut Fed Holdings

Citigroup is considering a plan in which the Treasury Department would sell part of its holdings in the bank, while the New York-based company would ...

New Electrics Grab Focus at Frankfurt Auto Show

Sales have plunged, General Motors Co. has emerged from bankruptcy and Chrysler has been taken over by Italy's Fiat. The past year's turbulence will be ...

Yahoo Gains $150 Mil. on Sale of Alibaba Stake

Yahoo has cashed out of its investment in China's leading e-commerce site, Alibaba.com. The sale announced Monday is expected to generate a pretax windfall of ...

Prius Japan's Top Seller for 4th Month

An auto industry group says Toyota's hugely popular Prius hybrid ranked as Japan's top-selling car in August for the fourth straight month. The Japan Automobile ...

Japan's Current Account Surplus Fell 19.4%

Japan's current account surplus in July fell 19.4 percent from a year earlier as exports tumbled amid a slow recovery in the global economy, the ...

Google China Reshuffles After Kai-Fu Lee Departure

The new managers of Google Inc.'s China arm expressed confidence Monday the business can grow despite the departure of the high-profile executive credited with expanding ...

Cadbury Rebuffs Kraft's $16.7 Bil. Takeover Bid

Kraft Foods Inc. on Monday proposed a 10.2 billion pounds ($16.7 billion) takeover of Cadbury PLC, but the offer was immediately rejected by the British ...

World Stocks Rise on U.S. Jobs Data, G-20 Stimulus Resolve

World stock markets rose Monday, following Wall Street higher after the pace of U.S. job losses eased and major countries pledged to keep extraordinary government ...

Comfy Ski Boots Allow Easy Walking — at a Price

Skiing, fun. Walking in ski boots back to the lodge, not so much. In mid-September, a company in Boulder will start selling a ski boot ...

Mortgage Giants Struggling a Year After Fed Takeover

A year after the near-collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage giants remain dependent on the government for survival and there is no ...