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By Michael Hiltzik
That ray of light you see peeking through all the clouds darkening California's future? That's the sun. More specifically, solar power, in which...
By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times
SACRAMENTO — The California State Teachers' Retirement System will cast its 5.3 million shares of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. against the reelection of...
By Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The Congressional Budget Office warned that the country could be thrown into a recession if Congress tries to reduce the nation's...
By Joe Flint and Meg James, Los Angeles Times
BOSTON — Recognizing that many viewers want to watch key events live, in prime time, rather than tape-delayed, NBCUniversal plans to bolster its...
By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The public won't be protected from the type of risky bets that led to the huge trading loss at JPMorgan Chase & Co. until new...
By Jerry Hirsch, Los Angeles Times
Moody's Investors Service raised the credit rating of Ford Motor Co. to an investment grade, giving its seal of approval to a corporate turnaround...
By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times
Benihana Inc., the Japanese-style and sushi restaurant chain known for slicing, dicing and frying food in front of diners, has accepted an offer to be...
By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times
Motel 6 and Studio 6, the no-frills budget hotel chains that once offered rooms for $6 a night, are being sold by French parent Accor for $1.9...
Associated Press
Americans are buying more homes in every region of the country, the latest indication that the housing market could be on the mend.
Associated Press
Best Buy Co. said Tuesday that its fiscal first-quarter profit dropped 26% on restructuring charges as the struggling electronics retailer began...
Associated Press
German business software maker SAP is buying Ariba Inc., a Sunnyvale, Calif., company that makes Web-based software that connects suppliers and...
Associated Press
Shares of Dell Inc. fell sharply in aftermarket trading Tuesday after the computer maker posted disappointing first-quarter results and forecast...
By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times
SACRAMENTO — Some of California's share of the money from a national legal settlement with big mortgage lenders can be used to help fill a...
Associated Press
Just how nervous are investors about Greece? All it took to derail a day of stock market gains was a headline saying that Greece was preparing to...
Bloomberg News
Directors at the Federal Reserve's regional banks saw a pickup in the pace of economic growth last month as housing, motor vehicle sales and...
By Jerry Hirsch
Tesla Motors Inc. said it will begin delivering its first mass production electric car -– the high-end Model S to customers starting June...
By Jerry Hirsch
A new ranking of auto brands and models placed Ford Motor Co. and Honda Motor Co. at the top.
Los Angeles Times
HealthCare Partners, the Torrance owner of physician groups in Southern California, Nevada and Florida, agreed to be acquired in a $4.42-billion...
By Oliver Gettell
Video-on-demand services usually come into play toward the end of a film's life span — either to follow a theatrical run or to take a movie...
By Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times
A federal administrative judge ruled that pomegranate juice maker Pom Wonderful used deceptive advertising when it implied its products could treat or...
By Richard Verrier and David Pierson, Los Angeles Times
Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group's landmark deal to buy AMC Entertainment Inc. for $2.6 billion could be a catalyst for similar acquisitions of...
By David Lazarus
Has your Internet Explorer browser ever crashed while you were cruising the Web? Of course it has. And you've probably then seen a box informing you...
By Jessica Guynn, Los Angeles Times
Maybe what Facebook really needs is a "buy" button.
By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Europe's top antitrust official said that Google Inc. may have abused its dominance to squelch online competition and urged the...
By Andrew Tangel, Los Angeles Times
NEW YORK Shortly after Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s board learned of famed investor Warren Buffett's $5-billion lifeline at the height of the...