The Dow passed 13,000 about two hours into the trading day.

President Obama is expected to sign it into law shortly after returning from a West Coast fundraising swing.

The January home foreclosure rate provides another sign that the pace is accelerating after slowing sharply last year while lenders sorted out foreclosure-abuse claims.

The property on Central Park West in Manhattan is now the most expensive apartment in New York.

The rare, bipartisan consensus reflected a desire by both parties to put the long-running drama over the issue to rest and a shared sense that their tentative agreement was probably the best deal they could get.

Diamond Foods Inc. and Procter & Gamble Co. have called off their $1.5 billion deal for Diamond to buy the Pringles brand. Cereal maker Kellogg Co. is swooping and made a $2.7 billion deal to purchase the brand.

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House lawmakers are returning to Capitol Hill to weigh a proposal by GOP leaders to extend the 2-percentage-point cut in the payroll tax through the end of the year and add the approximately $100 billion cost to the nation's $15 trillion-plus debt instead of scrounging around the budget for ways to pay for it.

U.S. regulators have approved Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of cellphone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings. Monday's clearance comes just a few hours after antitrust regulators gave their blessing.

President Obama's $3.8 trillion spending outline for the next fiscal year contrasts sharply with Republicans' opposition tax increases.

Officials said Monday that no one has come forward yet to claim the prize.

The deficit would drop to $901 billion next year under the administration's tax and spending policies.

An independent review finds the government could lose about $3 billion on Energy Department loans for green energy programs — far less than the $10 billion Congress set aside for the high-risk program.

Ben Bernanke says declines in home prices have forced many Americans to cut back sharply on spending warns that the trend could continue to weigh on the economy for years.

The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage stayed at a record low this week, providing some added incentive for those looking to buy a home or refinance.

So the White House plans to issue a new forecast projecting the creation of 2 million jobs this year. That could bring the national unemployment rate down to about 8 percent.

Lottery officials say someone who played the Powerball in Rhode Island has won the $336.4 million jackpot.

The jobs cuts are 3 percent of its work force.

Kansas will receive $50 million dollars to help 4,000 struggling homeowners.

But CEO Alan Mulally, a former Boeing executive, says he has no plans of leaving the automaker.

The number of people seeking unemployment aid neared a four-year low last week, a positive sign that strong hiring could continue in the coming months.

Squeezed by a tight job market, young Americans are especially struggling. They have suffered bigger income losses than other age groups and are less likely to be employed than at any time since World War II.

Some states are making it harder for thousands of people to become eligible for food stamps by adopting new limits on what they can own.

The iPhone helped Sprint gain customers in the latest quarter, but also forced the carrier to post its largest loss in three years because of the high cost of the phone a network upgrade.

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