The nation's retailers, including Wal-Mart and Toys R Us, are jump-starting holiday sales with big discounts and door-buster specials starting Friday in what's expected to be a lukewarm Christmas season. ...more

November 1, 2007

It's not even Thanksgiving, but the nation's retailers, including Wal-Mart and Toys R Us, are jump-starting holiday sales with big discounts and door buster specials starting Friday in what's expected to be a lukewarm Christmas season. ...more

November 1, 2007

Jim Ammons grumbles to himself every time he fills up his Ford Expedition, but he says gas prices would have to almost quadruple to $10 a gallon before he would ditch his SUV. ...more

October 20, 2007

Wall Street finished essentially flat Wednesday, with investors still confident the Federal Reserve will lower rates next week but treading cautiously as oil prices crossed $80 a barrel for the first time and the dollar extended its decline. ...more

September 13, 2007