Strength in the tech sector boosted U.S. stocks Tuesday, overshadowing data showing slumping factory orders and dismal pending home sales. Read more »

U.S. stocks fell Monday as investors booked profits after last week's run-up, while concerns about slowing cell phone sales hit shares of the biggest telecommunications companies. Read more »

Oil prices pared gains Monday after an early rise in response to a weak dollar and Israeli attacks on Hamas that raised concern about Middle East crude oil supplies. Read more »

U.S stocks rose Friday as General Motors shares rallied 14 percent on news its GMAC affiliate qualified to be a bank holding company. Read more »

U.S. retailers can be expected to speed up a wave of store closures, restructurings and job cuts in the coming weeks, hoping to get a fresh start in early 2009 after more than a year of recession. Read more »

A delayed redesign of Texas' system for setting the cost of electricity on its power grid could save consumers more than $5.6 billion over 10 years, according to a study filed with Texas regulators Thursday. Read more »

U.S. stocks fell Wednesday as enthusiasm over the Federal Reserve's surprisingly aggressive interest rate cut gave way to weak financial results and the dismal economic outlook. Read more »

Oil prices slipped Tuesday as lingering worries about shrinking global energy demand countered expectations OPEC producers will agree to deepen supply cuts. Read more »

Oil prices fell more than 2 percent Monday as deepening economic worries countered expectations that OPEC would agree to its biggest supply cut ever when the group meets in Algeria this week. Read more »

Creation of a market-based energy policy would help secure U.S. energy supplies and support an economic recovery, Rex Tillerson, chairman and chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp, said Thursday. Read more »