U.S. retailers face a wave of store closings, bankruptcies and takeovers starting next month as holiday sales are shaping up to be the worst in 40 years. ...more

December 30, 2008

As the longest recession in a quarter century intensifies, analysts think the small decline in economic activity in the third quarter has worsened significantly in the current fourth quarter. ...more

December 24, 2008

For the past two decades, the nation could count on one thing to keep it going when economic times got tough: Consumers kept spending. ...more

October 4, 2008

Battered by a slumping North American auto market and unfavorable currency swings, Toyota is forecasting a double barrel of bad news this fiscal year: its first year-on-year sales slide in nine years and first profit slip in seven years. ...more

May 9, 2008

More than a year ago, the chief executive of luxury-home builder Toll Bros. Inc. thought the housing slump could be touching close to bottom. ...more

February 7, 2008

The widening gap between crude oil and the relatively low price of gasoline is signaling the first quarterly decline in oil prices in a year. ...more

October 9, 2007