WASHINGTON (SFGate.com) — Arbitration clauses in the fine print of credit card and checking account agreements harm consumers by limiting the compensation they can receive...
MICHAEL VIRTANEN, Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — An online company is losing Montel Williams as its celebrity pitchman in New York while agreeing to stop...
MICHELLE CHAPMAN, AP Business Writers ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writers The three big credit reporting agencies are making changes that could help steer some consumers clear...
EMERY P. DALESIO, AP Business Writer RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — America’s largest electric company said Tuesday that it will pay nearly $150 million to settle claims...
Steve Rothwell, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — In 2009 the stock market was filled with panic. The housing market had collapsed. Lehman Brothers had...
David Geffen, REUTERS NEW YORK (Reuters)—Apple Inc (AAPL.O), the largest U.S. company by market value, will join the Dow Jones industrial average .DJI, replacing AT&T...
Joe White, REUTERS DETROIT (Reuters)—General Motors Co. said Monday it would launch a new, $5 billion share buyback in an agreement with dissident investors, and...
MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers increased their borrowing in January at the slowest pace in more than a year with borrowing on...
TOM KRISHER, AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — About 703,000 Fiat Chrysler SUVs and minivans will have to go back to the shop to fix malfunctioning...
BERNARD CONDON, AP Business Writers MAE ANDERSON, AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Apple is in. AT&T is out. In another milestone for the popular...
(Bloomberg) — The U.S. job-creation machine kept exceeding expectations in February. Wages continued to disappoint. Employers added 295,000 workers to payrolls last month, more than...
MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is helping California drivers shop for car insurance as part of a new service that could...
(International Business Times) – On Thursday afternoon, 31 of the largest U.S.-based banks got a clean bill of health from the Federal Reserve. In the first round of...
GEIR MOULSON, Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Parliament on Friday approved a quota system that will require leading companies in Europe’s biggest economy to have...
(New York Times) – Expedia, the online booking site that owns other major players, including Hotels.com, Hotwire and, more recently, Travelocity, announced about two weeks ago that it was planning to...
(Gallup) – Small businesses and startups are the crux of economic growth in the United States. Gallup continually collects and analyzes data to understand the...
(Black Enterprise) – As a doctoral student in social work at the University of Alabama, Shani K. Collins was struggling to make the most of...
(MarketWatch) – The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, once the most feared banking regulator on Wall Street, has lost power in a behind-the-scenes reorganization...
KEN SWEET, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans may just be getting used to mobile pay, but consumers in many African countries have been...
(West Texas News) – Freezing temperatures affected US auto sales in February. But even after considering the impact of cold weather, majority of the automakers...
(USA Today) – Private employers hired 212,000 workers in February, adding more muscle to the frame of a growing U.S. labor force. Payroll processor ADP’s...
DAVID McHUGH, Associated Press GREG KELLER, Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Top automakers are vowing not to give up on weak-selling electric vehicles — even as...
RYAN J. FOLEY, Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Taser International, the stun-gun maker emerging as a leading supplier of body cameras for police, has...
(Bloomberg) — Janet Yellen is turning from currency traders’ best friend to their biggest foe. The most popular trade in the $5.3 trillion-a-day foreign-exchange market...
TOANO, Va. (AP) — Lumber Liquidators is refuting a “60 Minutes” report that raised health concerns about some of its laminate flooring products and pushed...
