Safety Regulators Probe Ford Truck Steering Issue
Posted: 1:03 PM U.S. safety regulators are investigating complaints that problems with steering-gear boxes are causing a loss of control in some Ford trucks.
Posted: 1:03 PM U.S. safety regulators are investigating complaints that problems with steering-gear boxes are causing a loss of control in some Ford trucks.
Posted: 12:09 PM Chrysler is recalling 469,000 Jeep SUVs worldwide because they can shift into neutral without warning on startup.
Posted: 2:58 PM The stock market is closing out its third straight week of gains, led by small-company stocks.
Posted: 2:57 PM The U.S. Treasury says it took in a surplus of $113 billion in April, the largest in five years. That lowered the federal deficit through the first seven months of the budget year and kept it on pace to be the smallest since 2008.
Posted: 1:46 PM The average U.S. price of a gallon of gasoline has gone up one penny over the past two weeks. It is the first increase after eight straight weeks of decline.
Posted: 1:42 PM The White House says President Barack Obama's trip to Austin, Texas, on Thursday will kick off a series of day trips aimed at highlighting his proposals on jobs and the economy.
Posted: 12:02 PM President Barack Obama says the U.S. places great importance on its trading relationships with Latin America and will keep working to improve those ties and help the region become more competitive.
Posted: 11:42 AM Disturbed by the nationwide epidemic of cellphone robberies and thefts, law enforcement officials are looking to the wireless industry for help.
Posted: 8:12 AM Google is trying to upstage Siri, the sometimes droll assistant that answers questions and helps people manage their lives on Apple's iPhone and iPad.
Posted: 12:46 PM A new report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered estimates of how much of a potent greenhouse gas is being leaked by the natural gas industry despite rapid growth in production.
Posted: 2:22 PM Chevron has resumed operations in a unit at its Richmond refinery that was shut down after a massive fire last year.
Posted: 11:21 AM Dave Gold, who founded the 99 Cents Only Stores chain that offers everything from apples to school supplies for under a buck, has died. He was 80.
Posted: 8:31 AM International Game Technology says a strong performance in its earnings for the second quarter has the Nevada-based slot-machine maker confident it will post its fourth consecutive year of double-digit growth.
Posted: 9:58 AM The ruling also gives the league the ability to learn the identities of those running the websites and more about their finances.
Posted: 9:42 AM Southwest Airlines wants to make sure passengers show up for their flights or have to pay for them anyway.
Posted: 11:56 PM The prom spending is on the rise again. The recession forced parents and teens to cut back on spending for the annual high school dance, but wallets are finally opening again.
Updated: 1:54 PM The FBI alleges widespread fraud of customers at Pilot Flying J, the country's largest diesel retailer. Haslam has said he won't step aside from the Browns or as the company's CEO.
Posted: 11:14 AM The Federal Reserve says it will begin circulating a redesigned $100 bill this fall, more than two years after its initial target.
Posted: 2:06 PM Apple is finally opening the doors to its bank vault, saying it will distribute $100 billion in cash to its shareholders over two years.
Posted: 12:15 PM PETA has purchased newly-issued shares of SeaWorld Entertainment Inc., the theme park company that often has been the target of the animal rights group's protests.
Posted: 9:13 AM A new report says the richest Americans got richer during the first two years of the economic recovery while average net worth declined for the other 93 percent of the nation's households.
Posted: 8:46 AM Two senators are urging the Obama administration to postpone the furloughing of air traffic controllers, saying the turmoil caused by reduced staffing raises economic and security concerns as well as inconveniencing thousands of travelers.
Posted: 6:42 AM Caterpillar says its first-quarter net income shrank and it predicted smaller 2013 sales and profits because its mining business is slowing down.
Posted: 6:39 AM Halliburton says it lost $18 million in the first quarter on litigation-related charges related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. But it made money if the unusual items are excluded, and beat Wall Street expectations.
