business - "market"

A massive national debt. Withered stock prices. A shrinking work force. Japan's problems have pushed it to the brink, its stock market chief says

China's food exports to Japan, a key market, plunged 30 percent in February, hurt by a scare over poisoned Chinese-made dumplings, according to data reported Friday. Japan is the third-largest market for Chinese exporters of fish, dumplings and other...

While Main Street frets, the market sizzles. My buy list starts with what's on sale.

Weakness in the North American auto market and a writedown on its holdings in asset-back commercial paper sent earnings down in the first quarter at auto part company Magna International.

Investors moved out of Treasury bonds on Thursday as a rally in stocks sent the Dow Jones industrials up nearly 190 points. The sharp move in equities cut short a rise in Treasury prices earlier in the session. wall street remained nervous about the economy...

Are you itching with refi fever? It's as natural as it is contagious. home mortgage rates hit a multiyear low back in February. It didn't help the housing market lift itself out of its slump. There are still way too many homes on the market for that to stabilize....

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Retailer Home Depot Inc , which has been battered by the slumping housing market, said on Thursday it plans to close 15 underperforming U.S. stores and will curb future store openings, sending its shares up 2 percent.

Business News: Exec exits Nielsen for managing director gig -- Kevin Yoder has been tapped as managing director of Reed Business market research firm MarketCast.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Nearly 7 1/2 months after its chief executive said there were no plans to cut the number of its core retail stores, The Home Depot Inc. announced Thursday that it is shuttering 15 of them amid a slumping U.S. economy and housing market. The move will affect 1,300 employees....

Business News: Mogul taps into mainstream 'apirational' market -- For Sean Combs, making money transcended the music biz a long time ago. The mogul has spent the past decade turning his name into a successful brand for clothing, fragrances and, more recently, vodka.