TOKYO�Tokyo shares bounced back in early trading Friday from their heavy selloff the day before with the Nikkei Stock Average up a strong 2.3% as the dollar climbed out of its overnight lows and other global equities markets remained more buoyant.

In a surprise move, Procter & Gamble, the world's biggest consumer products company, said on Thursday that its chief executive had resigned and was being replaced by his predecessor, Alan G. Lafley.

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

California, widely seen as a model for how individuals will buy health insurance under the new health care law, announced Thursday that 13 insurers had been chosen to sell policies through the insurance marketplace - or exchange - being created under ...

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McDonald's Corp. Chief Executive Don Thompson, presiding over his first annual shareholders meeting since taking the helm of the fast-food chain last summer, defended the company's efforts to market to children.

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.

Gold swung between gains and losses as investors weighed speculation the Federal Reserve will maintain its record stimulus against a continuing decline in investor assets.

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.

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.