Honda massaged the Accord for the 2011 model year and came up with normal cosmetic tweaks and a notable boost in fuel economy.  Read More →

President Obama is pledging to propose a new package of job-boosting ideas next week — just don’t call it stimulus.  Read More →

Stocks closed near session highs Friday, with the Dow erasing its losses for the year, as investors welcomed a better-than-expected report on the U.S. job market.  Read More →

T. Gary Rogers, chairman of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, is busy finding a replacement for Janet Yellen, but he also has another big assignment: Selling his vineyard estate in St. Helena, Calif. which has been listed for $20 million.  Read More →

There was a slice of good news in today’s jobs report about the state of long-term unemployment in America.  Read More →

U.S. consumers are taking an increasingly pessimistic view of home values, in the wake of plunging home sales and other bad news from the housing market.  Read More →

The world’s third-biggest car company, Volkswagen, is revving up a plan to become the very biggest on the planet. Can it pull that off?  Read More →

U.S. Savings Bonds, long favored by gift-givers and conservative investors, are going paperless.  Read More →

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The developers planning to build a $100 million Islamic center near the World Trade Center site are nearly a quarter-million dollars behind on real estate taxes and late fees. World Trade Center – Islam – Real estate – New York City – September 11 2001  Read More →

Stocks pushed higher at the end of a listless session Thursday, extending gains from the previous day, as investors prepare for a critical report on the U.S. job market on Friday.  Read More →

The iPod helped Apple rise from the dead in the last decade. But the iPod Classic, the device that jump-started that resurrection, didn’t get so much as a mention from Steve Jobs at Apple’s iPod event on Wednesday.  Read More →

U.S. firms eager to shape newly-passed financial laws have wasted no time in lobbying the Fed and other agencies, according to new details released by the central bank.  Read More →

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday told a panel investigating the financial crisis that regulators must be ready to shut down …  Read More →