
Europe faces difficult search for growth
On paper at least, European leaders agree: They need stronger growth measures to help their economies expand out of their 2½-year-old government debt ...

5 Questions for GM North America chief Mark Reuss
Mark Reuss has arguably the most important job at General Motors. He runs the company's North American business, its largest and most profitable.

Facebook set to begin trading after $16B offering
Facebook is about to find out just how much status updates, puppy photos and billions of "likes" are worth on Wall Street, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg ...
Facebook's $16 billion IPO one of world's largest
Facebook's initial public offering of stock is shaping up to be one of the largest ever. The world's definitive online social network is raising at ...
GM's Vauxhall announces new Astra at UK plant
General Motors' Vauxhall plant in northern England will build the company's top-selling Astra vehicles, the automaker said Thursday — a relief for U.K

Companies ask: Does advertising on Facebook pay?
Responding to extraordinary demand, Facebook said Wednesday that it would sell more stock in the company's initial public offering. But ahead of the ...

Don't bet on Mitt Romney winning in Massachusetts
Don't bet on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney winning his home state or even trying. "That's not been a topic of discussion," Romney ...
Buffett's firm buys 10M share stake in GM
Warren Buffett's company is apparently bullish on the U.S. auto industry. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. took a new 10-million share stake in General Motors ...

Lack of trust in Facebook may hold back ad sales
Facebook's reach is wide but not deep. Few users surveyed in an Associated Press-CNBC poll say they click on the site's ads or buy the virtual goods ...
Greek, European woe could cause problems for US
Your 401(k) could sink again. A plummeting euro may make it harder for American companies to sell goods overseas. Credit could be tightened. These are ...

Obama trying to undermine Romney's record on jobs
President Barack Obama tried Monday to tarnish Mitt Romney as a corporate titan who got rich by cutting rather than creating jobs, opening a new ...
Residential Capital seeks Chapter 11 protection
The U.S. government is hoping that Monday's bankruptcy filing by Ally Financial Inc.'s troubled mortgage business will help the company repay its ...
Residential Mortgage seeking Chapter 11 protection
Ally Financial Inc.'s mortgage division known as ResCap is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The government-owned lender had been weighing a ...

How will gay marriage play on the ground?
On the upper eastern edge of Ohio lies a valley built on the sweat of the working class, where steel mills sit mostly shuttered but a once-struggling ...
Is Europe a safe place to buy? Not exactly
It often pays to zig when everybody else zags. If you were brave enough to put cash into the stock market three years ago — and very few small ...

With Apple in, Dow would have set record long ago
Apple is the world's most valuable company. The Dow Jones industrial average is probably the world's best-known stock index. So don't they deserve ...
Obama dings Romney's claim of credit for autos
President Barack Obama says Mitt Romney is having an "Etch A Sketch moment" when he claims credit for the U.S. auto industry's revival. Obama says ...

Toyota quarterly profit quadruples on recovery
Toyota's quarterly profit more than quadrupled to 121 billion yen ($1.5 billion), and the automaker gave upbeat forecasts as it recovers from a sales ...

Romney goes after Obama's core campaign message
Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday branded President Barack Obama as an "old-school liberal" who is trying to resurrect failed policies, a new line of ...

Romney taking credit for auto industry success
Campaigning in the backyard of America's auto industry, Mitt Romney re-ignited the bailout debate by suggesting he deserves "a lot of credit" for the ...
AdWatch: Obama pushes recovery in new ad
TITLE: "Go" LENGTH: 60 seconds AIRING: Broadcast and cable TV stations in Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, ...