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Home construction unexpectedly surged in June because of a change to New York City building codes, but excluding the adjustment, housing starts tumbled.

The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for unemployment benefits increased last week, a government report showed, but only retraced about one-third of the previous week's drop, suggesting some ...

Crude oil futures traded briefly more than $2 higher in London Wednesday as the market rebounded after a record-breaking sell-off in the previous session and news of missile testing in Iran also lent support.

Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today launched the Dow Jones GCC Titans 40 Index, which measures the performance of 40 component stocks traded in five of the six Gulf Cooperation Council ...

WHAT BEGAN A year ago as weakness in select financial stocks has grown into a full-fledged global bear rout that has left virtually no pocket of the equity market unscathed.

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Dow Jones & Company, a News Corporation company , today announced that Kathleen Madigan, former writer for BusinessWeek Magazine, will join the Dow Jones Newswires editorial team as "Big Picture" columnist and ...

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Alcoa Inc.'s second-quarter net income dropped 24% as aluminum prices failed to keep pace with climbing costs.

TO THE MANY WACKY subplots of the current drama - the dollar junked, the Bear skinned, both of the Dow's Generals court-martialed - add this one: a Texas oilman souring on sweet old-fashioned crude, to the ...

Marcus Brauchli was named executive editor of The Washington Post on Monday, three months after resigning under pressure from the top newsroom job at The Wall Street Journal.

When Rupert Murdoch first made overtures last year for The Wall Street Journal, this newspaper was along for the ride.

Stocks Mixed: Dow, S&P gain ground, but Nasdaq slips. More Pink Slips: Economy lost 62,000 jobs last month.

DURING THE EARLY 1970s bear market, Bill Nasgovitz, founder of investment firm Heartland Advisors, developed a stock-picking strategy inspired by his re-reading of Benjamin Graham's tome on value investing, ...

STOXX Ltd., the leading provider of European equity indexes, and Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced changes in the Dow Jones STOXX Select Dividend 30, Dow Jones STOXX Global ...

Microsoft Corp., positioning itself for a new run for Yahoo Inc.'s search business, has approached other media companies in recent days about joining it in a deal that would effectively lead to Yahoo's breakup, ...

With the broader economy sputtering, venture capital firms are finding it increasingly difficult to generate returns through the sale or public listing of portfolio companies.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has decided not to sell The Standard-Times and other community newspapers it acquired when it purchased Dow Jones & Company Inc.

MSNBC.COM Business Section Re-Launches with Coverage from the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition NEW YORK BUSINESS WIRE -April 6, 1998-- Collaborative effort on the Web at http://cnbc.wsj.com reflects ...

Little Movement: Major indexes begin the week slightly lower. Energy on the Rise: Crude tops $143; gas hits new record.