NEW 7:25 a.m. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Unemployment is at a five-year high. Financial firms that withstood the Great Depression are failing. Congress and a lame-duck president are gridlocked. So when John McCain declared that "the fundamentals of our economy

Defense contractor General Dynamics said Tuesday it will buy Jet Aviation for about $2.25 billion in cash, seeking to expand its Gulfstream jet business and tap into fast-growing overseas demand for luxury private planes.

Despite a perfect storm of rising fuel and materials costs and a souring economy, Nashville's builders say they're more challenged than discouraged by the residential and commercial landscape.

By YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer. Tokyo share prices plunged Friday to their lowest level in more than three years on growing fears that even a passage of the proposed U.S. financial bailout package cannot stop the American economy from slipping into

A new report out yesterday by a national farm group found that current labor and immigration laws would negatively impact New Jersey's economy by creating a labor shortage on the state's hundreds of farms. Now several state and national farm advocacy gr