The housing and financial crisis is powering a new wave of government regulation. The result is a major challenge to the deregulation that has defined U.S. governance for much of the past quarter-c...

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Futures were little-changed after a nearly 300-point rout in the Dow industrials a day earlier, which wiped out the market's gains on the week. Stock markets in Asia and Europe were dragged lower b...

Honda posted a surprise 8.1% rise in net profit as strong demand for its fuel-sipping vehicles in the U.S. and increased sales to emerging markets helped offset the impact of higher raw-material co...

Cleveland-Cliffs' largest shareholder is pushing the iron-ore producer to put itself up for sale and forgo its $10 billion deal for Alpha. The hedge fund effectively has enough power to block any t...

Obama made an impassioned call for rejuvenated U.S.-European ties in a speech before an estimated 200,000 in Berlin as the senator sought to burnish his image as a global statesman ahead of the U.S...

South Korea's financial regulator said it might decide in September whether to approve a deal for HSBC to acquire control of KEB, a break for the prolonged transaction that has come to symbolize th...

Some analysts and creditors suspect SemGroup, which has lost more than $2.4 billion on energy contracts, may have been making speculative trades not directly tied to its core business given the siz...

Fans swarmed sales windows in Beijing to buy the final batch of tickets for the Olympic Games, with police and journalists scuffling and a stampede breaking out at one site as officials opened addi...

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed civil fraud charges against UBS over the firm's handling of auction-rate securities before the $330 billion market collapsed earlier this year. (Lawsuit...