Economy

Electronic Arts Inc. has for a third time extended the deadline for its $2 billion tender offer to buy smaller rival Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., but it did not raise the price as many analysts had expected. Take-Two again spurned the offer price...

If you are looking for a sign the economy is still in need of repair, you can find it at Lowe's Cos. A struggling economy and continued turmoil in the housing market drove the nation's second-biggest home-improvement retailer to report a nearly 18...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Voters weighed in Tuesday in primaries in Oregon and Kentucky, as a top Barack Obama adviser urged Democrats to unite behind the Illinois senator for the fall campaign and bring the marathon contest for the presidential nomination to...

WASHINGTON -- Inflation at the wholesale level slowed in April following a huge increase in March, although prices for a number of items from prescription drugs to pasta shot upward. The Labor Department reported today that wholesale inflation...

NEW YORK -- Wall Street fell sharply Tuesday after oil prices spiked to a new record above $129 a barrel and a government report raised investors' concerns about inflation. The Dow Jones industrials fell more than 170 points. Crude jumped after OPEC's...

Gasoline prices seem to be peaking for the time being amid comfortable supplies and rising imports, but as crude oil continues creeping upward, the betting among most experts is that motorists haven't seen the worst yet for this driving season. "I...

This week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have ushered in a new era of warfare for which American defense may be poorly prepared. "The American people need to know we're facing a different enemy than we have ever faced,"...

Treasury prices rose Tuesday as another record run in oil prices sent stock market investors fleeing to the safety of government debt. The pullback in stocks and the attendant rise in Treasurys comes despite a government report that touched off another...

NEW YORK -- Oil prices spiked to a new trading high Tuesday, sweeping toward $130 a barrel as supply concerns intensified the momentum buying that has lifted crude deeper into record territory. The June contract for light, sweet crude traded as high as...

Reducing greenhouse gases blamed for global warming will mean higher energy costs, but no one can say with certainty how much of a price increase Americans will be facing, senators were told Tuesday as Democrats floated a proposal for huge tax breaks...