Japanese and Australian stocks traded lower early Thursday, with banks in Japan retreating in line with their US peers after a raft of weak eurozone data.

Stocks are ending lower for the first time in four trading days and a day after briefly hitting their highest point in nearly four years.

Of all the bank fees that customers love to hate, overdraft charges on checking accounts have to be near the top. The government's new consumer protection

After nearly doubling over the previous three years, errors by the nation's air-traffic controllers remained flat at roughly 1,900 in 2011, according to people

The Rev. Franklin Graham is certain that former Sen. Rick Santorum is a Christian. He is less sure about President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov.

The Treasury Department will offer its long-awaited proposal to overhaul the corporate tax code on Wednesday, senior administration officials said, weighing in

Beer heavyweights including Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, on the hunt for a shrinking pool of assets in faster growing markets, are examining a possible purchase of

The government regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has submitted a plan to Congress that would shrink the mortgage giants' role in the housing market.

The director of the National Security Agency warned that the hacking group Anonymous could have the ability within the next year or two to bring about a

The US and Mexico have reached an agreement that would allow oil and gas drilling on more than 1.5 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico, resolving a dispute

Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group said Saturday that it has raised wages by up to 25 percent in the second major salary hike in less than two years, as the

When Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. report quarterly results this week, they're likely to portray a computer market that's battered but recovering as the

Newt Gingrich sought to raise the stakes in the upcoming Michigan Republican primary, saying that if native son Mitt Romney cannot win there, he will have a

With polls showing him leading in Mitt Romney's home state of Michigan, former Sen. Rick Santorum fielded questions Sunday about a series of recent statements

The temporary hold on New York City's plan to ban small churches from using public schools for Sunday services only applies to one church that had brought