As the recession drags on, moms and dads are finding ways to dote on their kids without opening their wallets.

President Barack Obama is proclaiming signs of economic progress but warning Americans that "by no means are we out of the woods."

A key advertising forecaster is projecting that global ad spending should fall by a 6.9% in 2009, a pace that is worse than expected.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says there have been flickering signs that the recession may be easing.

Stocks are falling after unexpected drops in retail sales and producer prices test a notion that the economy is starting to find its footing.

Stocks erased the bulk of their losses to close mixed.

Some Wichita real estate experts are optimistic following the release of new home-buying numbers...

Family Dollars stores are thriving during the recession.

Wells Fargo says it expects to report record earnings for the first quarter, easily surpassing analysts' estimates.

Wall Street is poised for a sharply higher open after Wells Fargo forecast a record $3 billion profit for the first quarter.

Federal regulators have proposed five options for reining in the short-selling of stocks as investors and lawmakers clamor for brakes on moves they say worsened the market's downturn.

Pulte Homes and Centex say they will combine in a $1.3 billion stock-for-stock deal that will create the nation's largest homebuilding company.

Stocks are moving higher as investors balance positive news for homebuilders and insurers against worries about weak first-quarter earnings reports.

The five things you need to buy before the economy recovers.

T.J. Maxx and 13 other companies have agreed to pay more than $1 million in civil penalties for failing to promptly report sales of children's clothing with drawstrings through the hood or neck.

Stocks ended broadly lower. The Dow fell 186 points to 7,790. The S&P lost 20 points and the Nasdaq was down 45 points.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. says the chief executive of its Missouri-based Helzberg Diamond unit has resigned, but Warren Buffett's company did not say why.

Wall Street is retreating after a four-week rally as investors fear trouble from looming first-quarter earnings reports and more woes for banks.

Ben Bernanke says the Federal Reserve was "extremely uncomfortable" about last year's bailouts of big financial companies, but the Fed chief believes the central bank's strategy to ease the financial crisis is working.

Economists expect monthly job losses continuing for most, if not all, of this year.

President Barack Obama says the budget blueprints approved by Congress are "an important step toward rebuilding our struggling economy."

Wall Street is opening mixed on relief that an ugly employment report wasn't even worse.

The Obama administration says five banks have repaid millions of dollars they received from the government's $700 billion financial bailout pot.

Corporate Lodging Consultants Inc., the Wichita-based business-lodging provider founded by Barry Downing, has been acquired by FleetCor.

French President Nicholas Sarkozy says the Group of 20 nations will push for the publication of a blacklist on tax havens.