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Starbucks has begun to identify the estimated 600 stores it will close beginning this month. The company has posted a list on its Web site at links.sfgate.com/ZEFL, which it said will be updated as closure dates are confirmed. Eighty-eight of the shops are in...

Brick by brick and one cinderblock at a time, the residents of this Euphrates River village about 45 miles southwest of Baghdad are rebuilding homes that the U.S. military says al-Qaida destroyed while they occupied the area in 2006. Their determination to...

California's unemployment rate rose again in June to reach 6.9 percent as tighter consumer spending started to expand job losses beyond the depressed housing and construction industry to other sectors. The percentage of unemployed job seekers matches rates...

LONDON (Reuters) - Citigroup chairman Win Bischoff has warned that house prices in Britain and the United States are likely to keep falling for another two years.

Yellow cab driver Felicia Niculescu knew the economy was hitting the skids months ago when passengers began handing out fewer tips. An average tip from the airport to downtown Salt Lake City used to be $2 or $3.

Critics say that Russian shareholders have enlisted an improbable ally in their attempt to force BP to fire the chief executive of TNK-BP.

Is this a recession? How bad is housing? When will banks revive? Is my job safe? Are consumers done? Who's to blame?

Brazilian companies are engaging in a new and controversial wave of investment by buying up contracts of young soccer players and lending the players to teams.

If negotiations fail at the Doha round of trade talks one casualty will be the credibility of the World Trade Organization itself.

A number of retailers are experiencing double-digit sales growth on their shopping Web sites at a time when simply filling up a gas tank to head to the mall can seem like a spending spree.