MIAMI — Lennar Corp. said today that orders for new homes increased for the first time in more than three years as homebuyers took advantage of lower prices and a federa...
SLIPPERY ROCK — Troy-Alan Chevrolet in Slippery Rock celebrated the holidays by giving away a 52-inch flat-screen TV to Reid and Patty Campbell of West Sunbury.
The cont...
9 months of sales gains ends in Nov.
WASHINGTON — The number of people preparing to buy a home fell sharply in November, an unsettling new sign that the housing market ma...
'Disaster' over with promising Dec. sales
DETROIT — Automakers in the U.S. ended their worst year in almost three decades with hints of a recovery in December.
Many, espe...
LONDON — Kraft announced today holders of 1.5 percent of shares in chocolate and gum maker Cadbury have so far accepted its hostile takeover offer, but the U.S. conglome...
WASHINGTON — GMAC Financial Services, the consumer lender now majority owned by the government, said Tuesday it expects to report a loss of about $5 billion in the fourt...
WASHINGTON — The IRS plans to require tax preparers to pass a test and register with the government to better police a largely unregulated industry used by most taxpayer...
PITTSBURGH — Dominion People's Gas is selling its Pennsylvania utility to Peoples Hope Gas Companies, or PH Gas of San Francisco, a subsidiary of the SteelRiver Infrastr...
WASHINGTON — Stronger regulation is the best way to prevent financial speculation from getting out of hand and throwing the economy in a new crisis, Federal Reserve Chai...
BEIJING — General Motors said today 2009 sales in China by the company and its local partners rose 67 percent to a record 1.8 million vehicles amid tax cuts and incentiv...