Employers added more than 200,000 workers to payrolls in October for a ninth consecutive month and the jobless rate dropped to the lowest level in six years as the American economy powered past a global slowdown.

Europe’s post-Cold War order is fraying and there’s no consensus over how to stitch it back together.

Amazon.com Inc. unveiled the Echo voice-controlled interactive speaker that lets people stream music and order items from the online retailer, as the company works to extend its reach into consumers’ digital lives.

Lance Armstrong won’t participate in a time-trial cycling race this weekend, two weeks after he was prohibited from participating in a South Carolina charity ride.

Here’s what to look for when the Labor Department releases the October U.S. employment report today at 8:30 a.m. in Washington:

The high-frequency trading pioneered on Wall Street has come to Madison Avenue.

Europe’s post-Cold War order is fraying and there’s no consensus over how to stitch it back together.

Singapore Airlines Ltd. wants its high-end customers to embrace their lazy side.

The Bank of Japan’s unexpected stimulus has already made the country’s richest even wealthier, adding more than $3 billion to the four top billionaires’ net worth.

Morgan Stanley said its employees can use Uber Technologies Inc. cars for company trips, making the bank one of the first firms to reimburse employees for the service.

Remember how evidence was mounting last month that early snowfall was accumulating across Siberia? And remember how there’s a theory that says this snowfall signals a cold winter?

Almost 100 aquatic birds died this week in oil-sands tailings ponds as fog during annual migrations increased the numbers of waterfowl near bitumen processing.

Less than three years after Eike Batista was dubbed by President Dilma Rousseff “the pride of Brazil,” prosecutors will try to send the former billionaire to prison for alleged insider trading in a trial set for later this month.

Manhattan’s surging land costs are leaving the shareholders of an East Side luxury co-operative with a tough choice: pay a hefty price to buy the land under the building, or face increasing bills to keep renting it.

Craig Spencer, the New York City doctor who contracted Ebola while caring for patients in Guinea, is improving and remains in stable condition, health authorities said.

Home Depot Inc., which suffered a data breach between April and September, said 53 million e-mail addresses were taken by hackers during the attack, in addition to the 56 million payment cards that were previously disclosed.

OPEC, supplier of 40 percent of the world’s oil, cut forecasts for the amount of crude it will need to supply for most of the next two decades as the shale-energy boom in the U.S. lessens dependency on the group.

Rapper Shawn “Jay Z” Carter has purchased an interest in the Armand de Brignac Champagne line owned by Sovereign Brands, a closely held wine and spirits company based in New York.

As Chris Christie’s left hand held onto Henry Kissinger’s right shoulder, eyes around the Four Seasons Grill Room in Manhattan darted discreetly.

In a marquee the size of an aircraft hangar, Richard Branson politely brushed aside questions two years ago on Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd., his best-known brand. Instead, he made clear the future lay in commercial spaceflight.

CV Advisors of Miami is the fastest-growing family office in a year when the number of very rich in the world grew by 15.6 percent.

Amazon.com Inc. unveiled a new voice- controlled interactive speaker called Echo that lets people stream music and search the Internet.

Only weeks after completing a combined $5 billion in purchases of Google's Motorola Mobility and IBM's server business, Lenovo Group reported disappointing quarterly sales. The numbers missed analysts’ estimates as revenue growth fell to the slowest pace in six quarters, sending shares of the Chines…

Bruce Nassau made his first fortune in the cable television industry in Colorado. Now he sees opportunity in the legalization of marijuana.

Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda is poised to see record profits from the new sport coupes and SUVs he helped develop as Japan’s largest automaker and its Lexus division benefits from a falling yen.

If you had a Halo-themed wedding, chances are you're going to love the new "Halo: Nightfall" series that lets legendary filmmaker Ridley Scott loose on the multibillion-dollar video game franchise. For those uninitiated in the multi-part aliens versus human shooting series and its related…

President Barack Obama and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell promised Americans yesterday they’d search for common ground, then fired the opening salvos of a new battle over immigration.

Standard & Poor’s 500 Index companies are beating analysts’ estimates at the fastest pace in four years, underscoring the strength of the U.S. economy’s recovery from the longest recession since the Great Depression.

Ukraine’s two-month-old truce was at risk of unraveling as fighting shook rebel-held areas in the east and the U.S. and Germany warned that Russia risked more sanctions over the conflict.

The latest decline in the price of gold is saddling higher-cost producers with losses on every ounce mined, and pushing others to the brink of also slipping into the red.

Just two weeks after Kent Brantly, the first person to be treated on U.S. soil for Ebola, walked out of Emory University Hospital cured of the deadly virus, he received a call.

The specter of 1937 is weighing on the minds of top Federal Reserve officials as they work on a road map for unwinding their unprecedented economic stimulus.

Americans made clear on Election Day that they are hungry for bipartisan problem-solving and that they are focusing on those places where it can actually happen.

As Mario Draghi prepares the ground for further European Central Bank action, he’s testing the limits of his power.

For someone who invested almost $10 billion of his clients’ money in films, Tim Levy doesn’t display much enthusiasm for show business.

The Bank of Japan’s unexpected stimulus has already made the country’s richest even wealthier, adding more than $3 billion to the four top billionaires’ net worth.

Tesla Motors Inc. rose after the carmaker led by Elon Musk reported third-quarter results that beat analysts’ estimates and trimmed its forecast for vehicle sales this year to 33,000 from 35,000.

Eleven years after Nancy Kissel bludgeoned her banker husband to death in their luxury Hong Kong apartment, the American expatriate says from a maximum security prison she has no regrets about her life.

Performa’s party last night made Williamsburg cool again. It was the kind of event you want to tell your kids about -- with some censoring.

When billionaire Michael Platt flew to the Middle East in September 2013, he was running one of the world’s largest hedge funds. He wanted to make it bigger.

Lina Fan, who runs an estate in the Bordeaux region that produces some of France’s finest wines, is feeling the pain of China’s crackdown on conspicuous consumption.

Michelin today named 58 Chicago-area restaurants serving good-quality, inexpensive food.

Turkish traders of everything from Red Bull energy drinks to cement are profiting from Islamist conquests in Syria, while the militants are boosting their coffers with fees from the cross-border business.

Twitter Inc. is celebrating its one- year anniversary as a public company tomorrow with a stock that’s soared more than 54 percent from its debut. Its performance by many other measures is less stellar.

Barack Obama’s 2008 promise to bring hope and change to an economy mired in crisis may be starting to materialize. It just came too late to save the president’s party from defeat.

When the guerrilla army of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, led by Daniel Ortega, took over Nicaragua in 1979, one of its first acts was to seize the assets of the country’s business oligarchs.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who visited 19 states in the five days leading up to yesterday’s elections to rally support for fellow Republicans, can rest on a stack of owed political favors.

A new group of sunspots has come into view of Earth and it has the attention of the U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center.

Alberto Giacometti’s “Chariot” sculpture sold for $101 million, leading Sotheby’s record $422 million Impressionist and modern art sale in New York.

Saudi Arabia’s rivals in the shale fields from North Dakota to Texas aren’t flinching as the Persian Gulf kingdom wages a price war to reclaim market share and chill competition.

By Amy Thomson and Adam Satariano Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) –- U.S. technology companies are escalating pressure to let police and spies tap into smartphone data and e-mails in the name o ...

The difference in popularity between U.S. soccer and European football is nowhere more evident than at YSC Academy near Philadelphia, the only high school dedicated to developing American players.

McDonald’s Corp., struggling to boost sales in the U.S., is bringing back the McRib sandwich this week in about three-quarters of its domestic locations.

The plunge in U.S. fuel costs is coming too late to help American farmers stung by the lowest crop prices in years.