Marissa Mayer, the former Google executive who is now in charge of Yahoo, is poised to create yet another nothing-to-riches tale in the web industry with the $1.1bn (�720m) acquisition of the blogging site Tumblr.

By Marc Jones. LONDON | Mon May 20, 2013 3:32am EDT. LONDON (Reuters) - Rising optimism about global growth pushed world shares to a near five-year high on Monday, while comments from Japan's economy minister that consumers could suffer if the ...

Property prices continued to rise last month in China, defying policymakers who have sought to cool the housing market while preserving robust economic growth.

Say poverty in the Philadelphia area, and it conjures images of North Philadelphia or Kensington, not the suburbs. But the suburbs on both sides of the Delaware River are becoming steadily poorer, part of a national trend that confounds long-held beliefs that ...

Crude oil futures slipped Monday in Asia amid thin trade, as investors sat on the sidelines ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve chairman's outlook on the economy later in the week.

United Airlines is getting its 787s back in the air. The planes are returning after being grounded for four months by the federal government because of smoldering batteries on 787s owned by other airlines.

The government, which started direct lending in 2009, earns $51 billion a year on direct loans. GAN STUDENT DEBT LOANS 051713. Students hang out in the lobby of the classroom building on the campus of the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati on ...

Jamie Dimon, the chief executive and chairman of JPMorgan Chase. Haraz N. Ghanbari/Associated PressJamie Dimon, the chief executive and chairman of JPMorgan Chase.

MINEOLA, N.Y. - The federal government is moving ahead with plans to sell a tiny island east of New York City, where experiments on dangerous animal diseases have been conducted since the 1950s.

Metra train schedules were back on track Sunday afternoon after a morning derailment of an Amtrak train on the Near South Side . No one was injured, authorities said.