That gasping sound you heard at about 10:00 a.m. EDT on Monday was Wall Street's reaction to a report on U.S. factory activity, which crashed to its l...

President Obama has bet a second term on selling an economic comeback. A big truckload of economic data released today suggests he's not losing that b...

Wednesday morning's economic numbers may have been small potatoes, but they were fairly tasty nonetheless. The numbers from the manufacturing and h...

From 24/7 Wall St.: Americans are used to the U.S. being the leader, or a top-ranked nation, in many areas. But in a number of industries and business...

WASHINGTON (LUCIA MUTIKANI, Reuters) - New U.S. claims for jobless benefits rose last week but the underlying trend pointed to an improving labor ...

GALLATIN, Tenn. -- A federal investigation into flash fires that killed five people this year at a Gallatin metal powders plant found that multiple re...

A month after a prominent human rights group accused major American brands of purchasing clothing from a factory in Jordan that systematically abuses ...

WASHINGTON — Factories produced more goods for the fifth straight month in January as strong auto sales spurred demand for new cars and trucks. ...

The ongoing decline of American manufacturing is not an abstraction. Over the past decade, the United States has lost 53,224 factories.

BYD Co., the Chinese carmaker part- owned by billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., was fined and ordered to surrender seven factories ...

It's time to broaden our network of town hall meetings to turn national economic security problems into global sustainable solutions.