Australian stocks fell for a fourth day, offsetting a rebound in Japanese shares from the biggest drop since the 2011 earthquake, leaving Asia's benchmark equity index with a 2.7 percent loss for the week, the worst in 10 months.

In the year or so that Bob McDonald was under intense pressure from critics, he never entirely accepted the premise of their complaints about Procter & Gamble's listless performance.

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.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Stock futures were paring losses after a better-than-expected jobless claims report, but were still pointing to a negative open as investors continued to worry that the Federal Reserve may be heading for a wind-down of quantitative ...

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.

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.

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.

Thu May 23, 2013 12:41am EDT. * Yen down 20 percent vs dollar over past year, won up by a third against yen. * Weaker yen won't necessarily undercut South Korea's competitiveness.

Thu May 23, 2013 11:18pm EDT. TOKYO, May 24 (Reuters) - Japanese government bond prices fell on Friday as stocks clawed back some of their steep losses in the previous session, though the benchmark yield remained well shy of the one percent ...