WASHINGTON (AP) -- Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana....

Homebuilder D.R. Horton Inc., saw new home orders spike 26 percent from a year ago in the latest quarter as buyers raced to close deals and take advantage of a federal tax credit. But a wider-than-anticipated loss fueled by write-downs sent shares tumbling more than 15 percent Friday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a sharp improvement, more than half of U.S. states added jobs in October, though economists said many of the gains likely occurred in temporary employment....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Investors can't shake their fears that the economy isn't keeping up with the stock market....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Former Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier told a jury Friday he made mistakes in his troubled bid to turn the French water company into a global media giant, but he never misled shareholders about the risks....

DALLAS (AP) -- The Texas Supreme Court on Friday said it will again hear arguments in the nearly 15-year legal battle over accusations that Exxon Mobil Corp. loaded abandoned wells with junk, sludge and even explosives to keep other companies from drilling there....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.S. is finally becoming a nation of savers. Now if only we could get something for our money....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Florida banking regulators on Friday shut down Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida, marking the 124th U.S. bank to succumb this year to the struggling economy and rising loan defaults....

BOSTON (AP) -- JPMorgan Chase & Co. said Friday it is dropping a clause from its credit card contracts that required disputes with customers to be handled through binding arbitration, a move that could lead to consumers filing class-action and other lawsuits....

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- J.M. Smucker Co. nearly tripled its profit in the second quarter as the addition of Folgers coffee gave a jolt to its lineup and lower commodity prices for coffee beans and other items fattened its profit margins....

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MILWAUKEE, BUSINESS WIRE -- In fulfillment of its ongoing 20 year commitment to the medical imaging development community, Merge Healthcare (NASDAQ: MRGE), announced the release of MergeCOM-3' Version 4.1, with the latest standard supplements to its

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LOS ANGELES - (Business Wire) Glancy Binkow & Goldberg LLP has been appointed as Co-Lead Counsel in the securities class action against Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc. (Skilled Healthcare or the Company) (NYSE:SKH), certain of the Companys executive

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democrats in the US Senate strove to lock down support to prevail in a landmark first test vote of President Barack Obama's top domestic priority, remaking the US health care system. Adding to their confidence, a wavering Democrat,

Bill Donohue of the Catholic League claims in a press release that President Obama has double-crossed the Catholic bishops on the matter of abortion funding in the health care bill. “The Senate has just completed its version, and it contains nothing

President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in the Senate strove to lock down support to prevail in a landmark first test vote on his top domestic priority, remaking the US health care system. Adding to their confidence, a wavering Democrat, Senator Ben

Democrats in the US Senate strove to lock down support to prevail in a landmark first test vote of President Barack Obama's top domestic priority, remaking the US health care system. Adding to their confidence, a wavering Democrat, Senator Ben Nelson of

SUSIE GHARIB: The clock is ticking toward an important vote tomorrow on health care reform. At 8:00 p.m. Eastern time, the Senate will take a procedural vote on health care. It needs to get 60 votes so lawmakers can begin debate on the Senate's $848

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QUEBEC CITY Quebec’s auditor general lambasted the province’s handling of the construction industry last week, fuelling a scandal that has already prompted numerous demands for a public inquiry.

Just a few months after she ruled out a run for the office, state Labor Secretary Suzanne Bump has told the Patrick administration she will become a candidate

KPMG has won the Audit Team of the Year and Business Recovery Project of the Year titles at the Accountancy Age Awards.

Grant Thornton remains optimistic about the future despite recording a 4.1 per cent fall in revenues in the last financial year.

- Powered by MOSCOW: Russia has the worlds most fraudulent economy and attempts to stamp out white-collar crime have done little to stop its spread during the global financial downturn, PricewaterhouseCoopers said in a survey.

THE Kanungu district senior accounts assistant, Leonard Beitomwe, was on Tuesday arrested by the task force investigating the misuse of funds for the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) programme.

By Steven Candia THE acting Permanent Secretary in the health ministry has said embattled principal accountant, Nestor Machumbi Gasasira, was on leave, contrary to media reports that he had returned to office.

The management of Menorah Mivtachim Holdings Ltd. (TASE: MORA) apparently knew about the practice of granting improper loans to agents long before the practice was stopped, implies a report by Barlev Investigative Accounting.

The Financial Transactions Analysis and Reports Center (PPATK) has already submitted part of its findings on the flow of problematic Bank Century funds to Indonesia's State Audit Board (BPK), the center`s chief said.