A simple shoe popular among Chinese laborers gets a style makeover for the Western consumer.

A group of workers in the automotive department of a Wal-Mart store in Canada became the first North American employees of Wal-Mart to be covered by a union contract.

Facing a growing credit crisis and a rising number of troubled banks, the F.D.I.C. has recruited back many of the people who helped it clean up the savings and loan crisis 20 years ago.

Five questions you should ask yourself as airlines alter their frequent-flier mile programs, adding fees and raising the number of miles you need for some free tickets.

Home equity loans, once seen as the borrowing of last resort, have grown a thousandfold since banks began spending billions of dollars to advertise them.

WASHINGTON — Despite safety concerns from parents, consumer groups and politicians, a chemical used in baby bottles, canned food and other items is not dangerous, federal regulators said Friday.

Cadence Design Systems, the chip design software maker, on Friday ended its effort to buy a rival chip maker, the Mentor Graphics Corporation, saying that financing terms were no longer attractive.

The bank agreed to buy back $8.5 billion in auction-rate securities from investors, becoming the fifth bank to settle claims over the collapse of such securities.

A rebound in the dollar has led to an across-the-board plunge in commodity prices, with gold falling to a 10-month low and oil extending its decline. Stocks rose.

How a battle over the ranking of St. Émilion chateaus may change the way we value wine.