Deals fatigue? Groupon stock 27 percent down

Camry sheds ho-hum image to snare younger car buyers

New toilet technology after 150 years

Home Depot sees signs of improving housing market

ATLANTA (AP) - The Home Depot Inc. is feeling more optimistic about the recovery of the housing market after customers spent more on sprucing up their homes in the second quarter. The country's biggest home-improvement retailer said Tuesday that strong cost controls and healthy sales of paint, bathroom accessories and kitchen installations helped lift its net income by 12 percent during the ...

Higher retail spending lifts economy hopes

Luxury cars do poorly in new safety crash tests

Chevron refinery deemed hazardous

Number of new credit cards issued up 4%

Phone companies lose broadband subscribers for 1st time to cable firms

Google cutting 4,000 jobs at Motorola unit

Judge tentatively OKs $40M Skechers settlement

Falling GM stock raises government loss on bailout

A quick explanation of those darn Social Security offsets

Federal budget deficit totals $974B through July

CEO salvages JC Penney 2Q earnings disaster

Dunkin' taking doughnut bacon sandwich national

Auto sales pickup in May

Shameful lack of progress on Social Security reform

Cancer Society: Sweet smokes aimed at kids

Dell board recommends buyout offer

A respite for Medicare; Social Security no worse

Microsoft aims to simplify with Windows 8.1

Public-private partnership pushes '3-D printing'

Chicago hotel workers end strike after 10 years

Japan suspends imports after modified wheat found

Amazon to make 2 original comedies, 3 kids shows

Wealthy get most major tax breaks

Sales of bank-owned homes hit 5-year low

Bill would require OT, other benefits for nannies

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Democrats have passed a bill that would provide overtime pay, meal breaks and other labor protections for domestic workers in California. Lawmakers in the Assembly passed AB241 by Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco on a 41-24 vote Wednesday. Ammiano said the bill - called the Domestic Workers of Bill of Rights - seeks to give housekeepers, nannies and caregivers fair pay and safe working conditions. It now moves to the ...

China's Shuanghui in $4.7B deal for Smithfield Foods