In Sin City, where over-the-top is always the sales pitch, lavish nightclubs featuring a heart-pounding party have become the backbone of a billion-dollar industry that is soaring while gambling revenue slips.
A stronger-than-expected April rebound in job creation and recent dramatic discoveries of vast U.S. oil and gas reserves are helping to lift the American economy out its long funk.
This is the Illinois that many people never see - the sparsely populated southern tip where flat farmland gives way to rolling hills, rocky outcrops, thick forests and cypress swamps.
Global clothing brands involved in Bangladesh's troubled garment industry responded in starkly different ways to the building collapse that killed more than 600 people.
Billionaire Warren Buffett says he doesn't like owning bonds right now, and he doesn't think average investors should either.
It seems like a simple proposition: give employees who work more than 40 hours a week the option of taking paid time off instead of overtime pay.
Obama will kick off the effort Thursday with a trip to Austin, Texas, the White House said.
A solid April jobs report on Friday is a sign the economy is strengthening. That could lead to higher profits. What's more, many of the traditional threats to bull markets - rising inflation and interest rates, a possible recession - don't seem likely soon.
The shortage of homes is occurring just as ordinary Americans want to buy again. More of them feel confident about their job and retirement account. Mortgage rates are near historic lows
The Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting began humbly in 1982 with a crowd of 15 in an insurance company cafeteria.
In recent years, copying Buffett has become harder because most investors lack his connections and the massive pile of cash held by his company, Berkshire Hathaway.
A federal judge in New York has asked big-box wholesaler Costco and little-blue-box jeweler Tiffany & Co. to try to settle a multimillion-dollar trademark dispute
The job growth in April drove down the unemployment rate to a four-year low of 7.5 percent and sent a reassuring sign that the U.S. job market is improving.
A Manhattan judge on Thursday backed a $55 million settlement in a court battle over the Empire State Building, effectively clearing the way for a plan to let the public buy shares in the famous New York City landmark.
In the aftermath of a building collapse that killed more than 500 people, Bangladesh's garment manufacturers may face a choice of reform or perish.
Casino bosses transform Sin City into Club City
New jobs and energy gains helping lift U.S. economy
Scenic, struggling S. Illinois braces for oil rush
Brands risk image in varying Bangladesh responses
Buffett says bonds are terrible investments today
GOP seeks alternative to overtime pay
Obama to hit road to talk jobs and the economy
As the Dow breaks 15,000, is it too late to buy?
US housing perks up, but too few homes for sale
Warren Buffett leads annual meeting like no other
US employers added 165K jobs in April; rate falls to 7.5 pct.
Judge to OK Empire State Building settlement
Pressure on Bangladesh, retailers to fix factories