Japan's stock market witnessed a second-straight day of heightened volatility on Friday, swinging from gains of 3 percent to deep losses before bouncing back again, leaving traders puzzled as to what was going on in Asia's biggest stock market.

NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 22: Bob McDonald, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Procter & Gamble, speaks during the seventh annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) at the Sheraton New York Hotel on September 22, 2011 in ...

Japanese stocks continued to fall on Friday, reversing an early recovery, while Australia looked set to finish its worst week of trading in a year.

WASHINGTON - Economic data released on Thursday indicated solid job growth and provided further signs that housing is recovering. The New York Times.

By Jessica Dye. Thu May 23, 2013 1:30pm EDT. (Reuters) - A group of U.S. retailers, including Macy's Inc. (M.N) and Target Corp.

Sears Holdings Corp. swung to a fiscal first-quarter loss from a profit a year earlier, when the retailer booked a large gain on asset sales.

California's new health-insurance exchange, the largest state-operated marketplace emerging under the federal health-care overhaul, will offer consumers premiums that vary widely but often avoid the steepest increases experts had predicted.

Michael Jeffries's penchant for having the male crew on Abercrombie & Fitch's (ANF) corporate jet wear the retailer's boxer briefs, flip-flops, and cologne certainly hasn't hurt the chief executive officer's standing with his board.

Hundreds of times over five years, an employee of Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. would get an email asking questions like this: �how many & how voted.

Aerospace giant Northrop Grumman Corp., plagued by setbacks with its pricey high-flying spy drones, has come up with a new version for the Navy that could keep the company's unmanned aircraft assembly line in Palmdale humming.