After struggling for years, Gap Inc., which owns Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic, began a strong turnaround this year with a 43 percent increase in net income.

All the talk of safeguards and international cooperation is likely to prove ineffectual if a huge international bank fails, two economists write.

The company, using money it raised last week in the markets, is repaying the government nine years before its loan was due.

The plan to assure safety in factories in Bangladesh, forged after a deadly collapse, could put American retailers at risk for litigation, some specialists say.

The chief executive of JPMorgan is reaching out to regulators and bolstering the bank’s risk controls.

An unintended consequence of a Senate hearing might be companies deciding to take advantage of the same loopholes as Apple.

A consumer group has prepared an “anti-phishing” tip sheet.

Though the company is the nation’s most profitable technology company, it avoided taxes by making some of its units “stateless,” and exempt from taxes everywhere.

No hard evidence has ever emerged that the Bush tax cuts stimulated the economy, an economist writes.

Although it has been around for years, the technology is catching on among people who want to watch television on their own schedules.

SAC Capital Advisors is bracing for another round of withdrawal requests as fears grow that insider trading investigations could further damage Steven A. Cohen and his firm.

How do the two biggest deals in the social media world in recent years, those for Tumblr and Instagram, stack up to each other? DealBook runs through the stats.

Gary Pruitt said the Obama administration’s handling of a leak investigation had already diminished journalists’ capacity to report on the government.

At JPMorgan Chase, the move to split the jobs of chairman and chief executive, now held by Jamie Dimon, comes as the bank is actually prospering.

A law school professor is on a permanent campaign to argue that the telecom and cable industry has been overtaken by monopolists who resist innovation and overcharge consumers.

Laurene Powell Jobs has tiptoed into the public sphere, pushing her agenda in education as well as global conservation, nutrition and immigration policy.

Fred Eckert was once a star investor, but by 2011, he was bankrupt, divorced and had spent two months in a coma.

The Bayonne Medical Center charged Medicare the highest amounts for about a quarter of the most common treatments, a Times analysis of 2011 data shows.