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By Stuart Pfeifer, Los Angeles Times
Workers at Ikea's first factory in the United States have voted to be represented by a union, the latest development in a bitter campaign that has...
By Jeffry Bartash
The number of people who filed for jobless benefits fell below 400,000 last week for the first time since early April, a decline probably aided by...
By Dawn C. Chmielewski, Los Angeles Times
Laying the groundwork for its forthcoming media tablet, Amazon.com Inc. has added Universal Pictures movies to its digital video offerings.
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Exxon Mobil Corp. said Thursday that higher oil prices and improved refining margins boosted its second-quarter profits 41 percent.
By David Sarno, Los Angeles Times
Sprint Nextel Corp. lost 16% of its market value Thursday after releasing earnings results that disappointed investors and showed the company...
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Sony Corp. sank to a 15.5 billion yen ($199 million) quarterly loss, hurt by the disasters in northeastern Japan, a massive online security breach and...
By Ben Fritz, Los Angeles Times
A judge in Los Angeles has found that "Crash" producer Bob Yari deprived director Paul Haggis, star Brendan Fraser and co-writer Bobby Moresco of...
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A late sell-off wiped out the stock market's gains Thursday as investors worried that a bill headed for a vote in the House of Representatives would...
Nintendo Co. stayed deep in the red in the latest quarter, forcing the Japanese video game giant to cut its full-year forecasts and slash prices on...
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Nearly half the money invested by thousands of people in Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff's multi-decade fraud has been recovered, a court-...
By Susan Carpenter, Los Angeles Times
There will always be a segment of the driving public that feels an undeniable need for speed.
By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times
The head of Standard & Poor's said the credit rating company's analysts don't believe the U.S. will default but are awaiting agreement on a...
By John Horn, Los Angeles Times
It's hard enough to get into the Sundance Film Festival — more than 10,000 features, documentaries and shorts were submitted for just a few...
By Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times
Fitness shoes that wobbled into major-league popularity last year with names like Shape-ups, EasyTone and TrueBalance are getting a tough workout...
By Neela Banerjee, Los Angeles Times
In 2025, when the auto industry will be required to meet a 54.5-miles-per-gallon fuel economy target that the Obama administration plans to announce...
By Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times
A well-known former post office distribution center near Marina del Rey has sold for nearly $44 million to investors who intend to turn it into...
By W.J. Hennigan, Los Angeles Times
Aerospace giants Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. reported contrasting second-quarter financial results as each coped with a declining Pentagon...
By Salvador Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
Although the reliability of new and redesigned automobiles fell, consumers generally found them more appealing, according to an annual survey.
By Jerry Hirsch, Los Angeles Times
In an example of how prices for new and used cars have soared this year, the nation's largest chain of auto dealerships posted a huge gain in profit...
By Stuart Pfeifer, Los Angeles Times
A Southern California man who invented the cold treatment gel Zicam has agreed to plead guilty to marketing an unapproved drug that he claimed could...
By Duke Helfand, Los Angeles Times
Health insurance giant WellPoint Inc. said its profit fell 3% in the second quarter partly because of higher-than-expected medical costs for seniors,...
By Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times
Profit and revenue at the world's largest commercial property brokerage grew in the second quarter as sales and leasing activity picked up.
By Alex Pham, Los Angeles Times
Game publisher THQ Inc. continued to struggle last quarter as its ambitious turnaround efforts have yet to bear fruit.
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It's time to make the money.
By Nathaniel Popper and Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times
Wall Street has tried to ignore the threat posed by Washington failing to raise the debt ceiling. No more.
By Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times
Just a week after acquiring Myspace, Orange County brothers Tim and Chris Vanderhook strolled through the firm's Beverly Hills headquarters and...
By Dawn C. Chmielewski, Los Angeles Times
Comic book publisher Marvel Worldwide Inc. has won a federal court ruling in a dispute over the rights to such popular characters as the Fantastic...