Robert Manor

The Chicago Board of Trade took another step toward becoming a publicly traded company Wednesday when its board of directors unanimously approved settling a lawsuit over how to divide ownership...

PRODUCER PRICES Commodity costs up How good will the economy be in 2004? So good that prices might go up a bit. Bob Doll, chief investment officer of Merrill Lynch...

Michael Bertsche's precision fuel injectors and diesel engine components are flying out of his factory, as a weakening dollar makes American manufacturing more competitive. "We are winning business that might...

CONSUMER SENTIMENT Happy spenders? Economics has been described as the dismal science, but pour an economist a couple of glasses of high-proof statistics, and he is apt to declare the...

Before Bethlehem Steel went bankrupt and sold its Burns Harbor plant in Portage, Ind., hundreds of its employees who took early retirement counted on pensions of up to $30,000 a...

"Jobless recovery" has become almost synonymous with "American economy" this year, as financial conditions seem to somehow improve without creating much work for anyone. This week, Americans will find out...

FEDERAL RESERVE No action seen This week will see a flurry of reports expected to show that the nation's economy is picking up, while the usually important meeting of Federal...

Does it make sense for Illinois to change its laws so Commonwealth Edison Co. can acquire financially struggling Illinois Power Co.? ComEd certainly thinks so. So do the unions that...

Raids by federal authorities early Thursday led to the arrests of hundreds of immigrant workers at scores of Wal-Mart stores across the country, where they had been hired to work...

For mortgage lenders, a two-year party is ending, raising worries about the hangover to come. Bankers gathered here for an annual convention predict their business will fall by 50 percent...