WASHINGTON—Apple Inc.'s tax strategies came under harsh scrutiny Tuesday in the Senate, where lawmakers are finding it far easier to call for a simpler tax code than to produce one. Tim Cook, Apple's chief ...

MOORE, Okla.—When the tornado-warning sirens blared, Kelly Law was already in the hallway of Plaza Towers Elementary School, huddled against the wall, shielding as many students as she could with her body. ...

ESPN started laying off a few hundred workers Tuesday, a sign that the hugely profitable sports cable-TV powerhouse is responding to the higher prices it is paying for rights to air games as well as other ...

Big phone companies have begun to sell the vast troves of data they gather about their subscribers' locations, travels and Web-browsing habits. The information provides a powerful tool for marketers but ...

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. agreed to pay at least $9 million to end allegations by regulators that the brokerage firm was plagued by "systemic email failures" but did too little to fix them. ...

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If Yahoo's flagging business still had one strength, it was supposed to be brand advertising. But social-media stars are stealing its thunder—a big reason it wants to own blogging tool Tumblr. Online advertising ...

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is preparing for a shake-up of its board even if every director wins re-election at Tuesday's shareholder meeting and James Dimon keeps his dual job as chairman and chief executive. ...

Lawmakers across the country are tussling over the Obama administration's plans to create a small army of assistants to guide millions of Americans as they sign up for new health-insurance options available ...

Apple Inc. paid no corporate income tax to any national government on tens of billions of dollars in overseas income over the past four years, Senate investigators found, a revelation that fuels the debate ...

Richard Schulze has good reason to relax. In fact, he has a billion reasons. That is roughly the paper gain in dollars the founder of Best Buy Co. has reaped this year as shares of the company he used ...

U.S. prosecutors are considering possible criminal charges against SAC Capital Advisors LP as a result of the government's insider-trading investigation of the hedge-fund firm, according to people familiar ...

Employers are increasingly recognizing they may be able to avoid certain penalties under the federal health law by offering very limited plans that can lack key benefits such as hospital coverage. Benefits ...

Yahoo Inc. has agreed to pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr, a six-year-old company with more than 100 million users but very little revenue, a deal that highlights the shifting balance of power in the technology ...

The White House's chief lawyer learned weeks ago that an audit of the Internal Revenue Service likely would show that agency employees inappropriately targeted conservative groups, a senior White House ...

Prices of many commodities are down this year, but U.S. oil futures have rallied. Skeptics say the mismatch is a sign of trouble. U.S. benchmark crude-oil futures ended Friday at $96.02, up 4.6% since ...

Call it a midlife epiphany. After decades of pursuing money, titles and ever more stuff, baby boomers are coming to a big realization: Success and security just aren't enough anymore. They want something ...

A young Houston couple is planning to give away $4 billion—but only to projects that prove they are worth it. Can they redefine the world of philanthropy?

For weeks, Anne-Marie Baiynd kept a close eye on shares of Tesla Motors Inc. On May 9, a day after the company posted its first-ever quarterly profit, the stock exploded higher in heavy trading. Ms. Baiynd, ...

Billionaire hedge-fund manager William Ackman and a group of real-estate investors are in contract to buy a penthouse condo in Manhattan for more than $90 million, according to people familiar with the ...

Financial regulators are taking a harder line on exchanges amid concerns over their ability to police the markets they operate, as the SEC prepares to hit one with a record penalty. The deeper scrutiny ...

Russia has sent a dozen or more warships to patrol waters near its naval base in Syria, a buildup that U.S. and European officials see as a newly aggressive stance meant partly to warn the West and Israel ...

Eight members of Congress on Thursday asked Google Inc. Chief Executive Larry Page to give assurances about privacy safeguards for the company's high-profile Google Glass wearable-computing device. AP ...

Federal Reserve officials are deeply engaged in debating when to begin dialing back an $85 billion-a-month bond buying program, but don't appear near consensus on when to pull the trigger. The presidents ...

The bears are mauling gold. The metal fell for a sixth consecutive trading session on Thursday, as investors continue to flee toward assets that promise higher returns. The string of losses, which add ...

The booming market for commercial-mortgage-backed securities is on the verge of passing a dubious milestone: losses on a class of bonds that have been popular with investors for the big returns they promised. ...

BANGKOK—Fifteen years ago, Thailand and other Asian countries let their currencies slide, using cheap exports to help lift them out of a devastating economic slump. Today, Thailand's currency is soaring, ...

TOKYO—Japan's economic growth accelerated swiftly at the beginning of this year, the most concrete sign yet that new stimulus policies sparking euphoria in financial markets are starting to lift companies ...

President Barack Obama forced the resignation Wednesday of the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in connection with the inappropriate targeting of conservative political groups. President ...

Cisco Systems Inc. delivered a sign of improving tech-sector demand as the company's newer software and services businesses more than offset weaker revenue from its traditional networking products. The ...

TOKYO—The Bank of Japan's monetary-easing campaign has hit a snag: Rising bond yields have emerged as a potential barrier to growth. Contrary to the central bank's intentions, interest rates in the $10 ...

Money is flooding into funds that buy up loans to companies as some investors brace for the end of ultralow interest rates. The activity is adding fuel to the roaring corporate-refinancing boom by driving ...

An orange-colored fungus called roya, or coffee-leaf rust, is wreaking havoc on crops across Latin America.