Zale's Loss Narrows as Sales Grow

Patch.com, a network of small-town news sites owned by AOL Inc., has emerged at the center of a tug of war over the Internet company's future.

At age 12, Mikayla Cunney loves to play tennis and run races. But for 16 hours a day she is restricted by a tightfitting, upper-body brace she must wear to prevent a worsening of the scoliosis that began ...

These aren't the investments for Grandma. And they aren't wagers to take with your rent money. These are the risky bets most people are too afraid to take.

Money once again is pouring into safe U.S. government debt, sending Treasury prices higher and yields, which move in the opposite direction, to near-record lows.

Faced with $90,000 in student debt from Harvard Business School, Mihalic vowed to eliminate every penny by this summer. He did — three months early.

Facebook IPO Rises 11% at Open

U.S. Rethinks Secrecy About Drones

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As investors take a hard look at the potential challenges to Facebook largely ad-driven business, Mark Zuckerberg suddenly seems in the mood to experiment.

Ready to redeem your frequent-flier miles and reward points for a plane ticket? You'll probably get a seat on Southwest, but good luck with Delta, at least at the basic redemption level. Southwest Airlines ...

Ralph Slate, 43, of Springfield, Mass., also says he's getting pushed way down in the rankings as a result of the recent changes. In the past, his database of hockey players often appeared in the first ...

Katie Poch visits the Cherry Creek Shopping Center in Denver more than once a month, but not for the Neiman Marcus, Juicy Couture and Burberry stores. It's Tweety Bird and Porky Pig that draw her. The ...

Are you a mom or dad who's guilty of 'oversharenting'? The cure may be to not share at all.

The decision to step down from Yahoo was in part influenced by Mr. Thompson's cancer diagnosis, according to people familiar with the matter.

In a political environment that’s rife with talk of raising taxes on the wealthy, Mr. Saverin’s case could become another flash point.

The rapid-fire acquisition pace and the swelling deal prices are rippling across Silicon Valley, boosting the expectations of many entrepreneurs and investors that lucrative payouts will continue.

Executives at Wall Street firms are privately expressing concern that J.P. Morgan's problems could cause their firms trouble, too.

WSJ.com 'Intelligent Investor' columnist Jason Zweig pulls up a chair on Mean Street to explain how J.P. Morgan violated a simply rule in its $2 billion trading loss: You must not fool yourself. Photo: ...

It's been a scary few years for the housing market. But at some point, the nightmare has to end (please?). Is now the time? Should first-time home buyers consider jumping into the market? After all, home ...

Banks are exploring new products like prepaid debit cards in an attempt to offset more than $15 billion in annual industry revenue that has been wiped out from new regulations.

Retailers are trying to make smartphones work for them instead of against them. Take Maurices. The women's clothing chain last month started sending promotions to the phones of people who come within a ...

In March, Mark Morrison says he was offered a 4.63% rate by his mortgage company, Ally Financial Inc., when he asked about refinancing. That would have resulted in monthly savings of just $87, before figuring ...

The Menlo Park, Calif., company is the most celebrated of a group of Web firms that have ignited the IPO market over the past year, including offerings from LinkedIn Corp., Zynga Inc., Groupon Inc. and ...

Where to retire? It's an age-old question that for many people centers on two big variables: housing costs and taxes.

It appears that scientists are concerned about the serious damage mistakes cause to biomedical research yet can't develop an approach to deal with the problem ("Lab Mistakes Hobble Cancer Studies ...

Holman W. Jenkins Jr.'s ambivalent portrait of the Wal-Mart of Mexico bribery scandal in his April 25 Business World column "Wal-Mart Innocents Abroad" overlooks the fact that bribery is not ...

When Dan Akerson took over the turnaround effort at General Motors Co., few could have predicted one impact he would start to have almost immediately: more important roles for women at GM, all the way ...

Heaven help us. Jim Bakker, the disgraced 1980s televangelist whose "PTL Club" television empire was laid asunder by dual sex and money scandals, is out of prison and renouncing the prosperity ...

WSJ's Jason Zweig checks in on Mean Street to explain the current battle in Washington over whether the SEC should be relieved of overseeing the nation's 28,000 investment advisers. Photo: Getty Images. ...

Mutual-fund managers have little choice but to think big these days. Most managers would describe themselves as stock pickers, insisting their main focus is evaluating companies on their merits, not making ...

The top 1% in the mutual-fund world has it pretty good, too. We're talking about the funds and exchange-traded funds that are attracting the most cash from investors—which translates into more dollars ...

Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg is one of the world's most famous chief executives. His former business partner and friend, Eduardo Saverin, is big in Singapore.