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Facebook's stock has fallen below $30 for the first time since its much-awaited public debut this month.

Home prices rose in March from February in most major U.S. cities for the first time in seven months. The increase is the latest evidence of a slow recovery taking shape in the housing market.

Alyssa Kjellberg still can’t believe it. Two years beyond college, her career path has led only to jobs at a greenhouse, a hotel front desk, an aunt’s office and a seasonal landscaping company – all paying less than $12 an hour.

Dealing with unemployment requires an organized mind, a place for everything and a good tool kit.

WASHINGTON-Despite Europe's economic troubles, American consumers are feeling better about the economy than at any time since the start of the Great Recession.

Profits at big U.S. companies broke records last year, and so did pay for CEOs.

U.S. stocks are opening mixed as traders worry that European leaders don't have a concrete plan for dealing with Greece's financial troubles.

The fledgling federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau kicked off its plans to impose new regulations on prepaid debit cards with a hearing that featured complaints from consumer groups and a stiff-upper-lip defense from the industry.

Orders for long-lasting factory goods edged up slightly in April. But a measure of business investment spending fell for a second straight month.

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman has quantified the painful price that must be paid for the missteps of her predecessors as she tries to turn around the Silicon Valley pioneer. The bungling will wipe out 27,000 jobs so HP can save enough money to lift its earnings and invest in the development of more profitable products and service.

Americans grew much gloomier about the economy in May, causing a critical measure of consumer confidence to suffer its biggest decline in eight months and ending a period of steady optimism.

To say that Facebook's debut as a public company was bungled is something like saying Facebook is a website you might have heard of.

Wearing brick-red-hued scrubs and chattering in Spanish, Miguel Alquicira settled a tiny girl into an adult-size dental chair and soothed her through a set of X-rays. Then he ushered the dentist, a woman, into the room and stayed on to serve as interpreter.

The unemployment rate declined to 7.6 percent in Raleigh, and remained unchanged in Durham at 7.4 percent. The Triangle’s unemployment rate remains well below the state rate of 9.4 percent.

Warren Buffett reaffirmed Thursday that he will take a “hands-off” approach to the 26 daily newspapers, including the Winston-Salem Journal, that a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary is buying from Media General Inc.

Nationwide, the price of a gallon of regular gasoline has drifted lower by about half a cent a day over the past month, and energy analysts say that trend should continue over the next few weeks, in at least some states.

U.S. bank earnings rose in the first three months of the year to the highest level in nearly five years and the number of troubled banks fell for the fourth straight quarter.

The number of people seeking unemployment benefits changed little last week, signaling modest job growth.

Stock futures rose Thursday on more evidence of modest job growth in the U.S., though the landscape for the nation's factories appeared hazy.