James P. Miller

Capping a troubled four-year run in the Chicago area, Safeway Inc. reached a tentative labor deal Tuesday night with its workers that gives the grocery giant time to find a...

Safeway Inc., citing the profit drag of a continued soft economy, warned investors that earnings for the current fourth quarter and the coming year would fall short of expectations. Separately,...

Struggling to overcome a severe downturn in its commercial aircraft business, Boeing Co. reported a 43 percent drop in earnings for the third quarter and said revenues for next year...

Shares of Deere & Co. surged higher Tuesday after the farm-equipment giant, helped by a sharp increase in overseas sales and a successful cost-containment effort, reported stronger-than-expected fiscal third-quarter results....

A growing chorus of critics is calling for the top cop of the nation's financial markets to step down. With lawmakers and the public increasingly outraged over the accounting irregularities...

U.S. retail sales declined sharply in May, pulled down in large part by weakening auto sales, an unwelcome byproduct of the aggressive zero-percent interest sales promotions U.S. carmakers launched last...

In search of answers to crucial economic questions, Chicago companies employ the latest data-modeling tools--and scan the city skyline, check out action on the golf course, tally pedicure treatments and...

Sears, Roebuck and Co. reported a large drop in first-quarter earnings Thursday as one-time charges battered its bottom line and shoppers spent fewer dollars in its stores. The Hoffman Estates-based...

Shares of Boeing Co. tumbled Wednesday, weighing heavily on the Dow Jones industrial average, after the Chicago-based aerospace giant missed first-quarter earnings estimates by a wide margin. Boeing reported a...