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San francisco (Reuters) - EBay Inc is cutting the fees U.S. sellers on its site pay for fixed-price items, in one of the company's boldest moves this year to boost merchandise for sale, lure new buyers and take on competitors.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Most Asian stock markets edged higher on Wednesday, rebounding from a two-year low as Chinese shares surged on hopes for policies from beijing to jumpstart growth, though many analysts said it was a long shot.

In the absence of federal immigration reform and with an election drawing near, Homeland Security's workplace crackdown is attracting both praise and criticism

2009 Ford Escape, 2009 Volkswagen Tiguan, 2008 Mitsubishi Outlander and 2008 Nissan Rogue get top marks

LONDON (Reuters) - Airports operator BAA, owned by Spain's Ferrovial , received a tougher-than-expected ruling from Britain's competition regulator on Wednesday, which said it should sell two of its three London airports because of problems created by its near monopoly.

(Reuters) - A joint venture created by LandCap Partners is buying $40 million of troubled land and construction loans from Wachovia Corp The Wall Street Journal said.

Barack Obama and john mccain have burnished images as politicians who keep special interests at arms' length, yet there won't be much stiff-arming at their nominating conventions. For the next two weeks _ in Denver and then St. Paul, Minn. _ corporations,...

Neither Barack Obama nor john mccain has consistently followed the government's instructions for keeping prohibited foreign money out of their presidential campaigns, and some of that banned money has slipped into Obama's campaign. During interviews with 123...

China has banned the use of its Olympic gold medalists' names as internet addresses by anyone but the athletes themselves. The move announced Tuesday came after companies registered the names of winning Chinese athletes at the 2004 Athens Olympics as Web...

We made it through the bursting of the internet bubble and now the bursting of the real estate bubble. Next we may be approaching the end of the most worrisome bubble of all: the standard-of-living bubble.