LPL Financial 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.
Big phone companies have started to sell the data they gather about subscribers' locations, travels and Web-browsing habits, providing a powerful tool for marketers but raising new privacy concerns.
Renault and Nissan are expanding the capacity at their joint-venture factory in India by a third as part of their strategy to utilize the country as a global manufacturing hub and to tap potential growth in local demand.
South Africa's currency stumbled to a four-year low and the country's bonds sold off, signs that escalating labor unrest is starting to outweigh the lure of high yields for many investors.
Two more executives of a Japanese auto parts maker have agreed to plead guilty to fixing prices on new-car parts and will spend more than a year in a U.S. prison.
Sales of insecticides are surging after years of decline, as U.S. corn planting expands and a genetic modification used to protect crops from pests has started losing its effectiveness.
It is rare for an investment firm to be charged under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a powerful legal tool used against the Mafia and drug gangs.
The head of SkyWest said he still saw a future for the smaller 50-seat jets being dropped by some carriers as the largest U.S. regional airline on unveiled another huge order for bigger aircraft that doubled its new-plane commitments to as many as 400.
Home Depot raised its full-year outlook and said net profit jumped 18%, helped by the recovering housing market and sales related to reconstruction in the wake of superstorm Sandy.
