By Wanfeng Zhou. NEW YORK | Wed Jun 19, 2013 9:48am EDT. NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar was steady against major currencies on Wednesday, with markets in a holding pattern ahead of a Federal Reserve policy announcement and news ...

SoftBank moves closer to acquiring Sprint Nextel Sprint Nextel after Dish Network said it won't make another bid for Sprint. By dropping the pursuit of Sprint, Dish's billionaire chairman Charlie Ergen will allow Sprint to slip to another billionaire chief, SoftBank's ...

FedEx Corp. (FDX), the world's largest cargo airline, forecast full-year earnings below analysts' estimates amid tepid economic growth and customers' preference for less expensive international shipping services.

NEW YORK - Interest rates on home mortgages rose last week to hit their highest level in over a year, sapping demand from potential homeowners, data from an industry group showed on Wednesday.

Yields on 10-year Treasurys have lurched 50 basis points upwards since May on fears the Federal Reserve may start scaling back its asset purchasing program, and some economists now forecast yields could reach 3 percent by year-end.

Cars and trucks are rolling again across the Interstate 5 Skagit River bridge, restoring the traffic flow on the main route between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia.

Investigators Claim TWA 800 Crash Not An Accident. In a new documentary on the 17-year-old crash, six investigators say there was a cover up.

BERLIN - Shares of Alcatel-Lucent, the troubled French-American maker of telecommunications equipment, rose more than 5 percent in Paris on Wednesday after its chief executive presented a package of cost cuts, planned job reductions and asset sales ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Activist investor Carl Icahn on Tuesday proposed a $16 billion share buyback in his latest effort to thwart Dell founder Michael Dell's effort to take the struggling computer maker private.

Bank of England Governor Mervyn King will return to the scene of some of his most acidic public encounters today for the annual occasion that helped define his relationship with Britain's banking industry.