North America Business News

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is asking the Volunteer State to join the movement for better health. The Chattanooga-based insurer has kicked off an advertising campaign called MVMT For Life aimed at spurring Tennesseans to lose weight, get in shape and...

Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. When Cindy Naugle took the witness stand in her lawsuit against tobacco company Philip Morris USA, she toted an oxygen bottle and had to pause a few minutes to catch her breath. Lawyers...

Barnes & Noble Inc said on Friday it had sold out of its newly-launched Nook electronic readers due to high demand -- a pre-holiday miscalculation that analysts said could boost sales of rival Amazon.com Inc's market leading Kindle. The news...

Crude oil futures declined 1% Friday as U.S. equities faltered, reviving concerns about the pace of economic recovery and oil demand. Light, sweet crude for December delivery settled down 74 cents, or 1%, at $76.72 a barrel on the New...

Cadbury Plc would prefer a merger with U.S. chocolate maker Hershey Co rather than Kraft Foods Inc , the British company's chairman Roger Carr told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper. However, he said both U.S. groups would fail if they cannot...

The sole branch of Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida is set to reopen Monday as a branch of Central Bank. Central Bank, a small Minnesota-based institution, has recently been buying up failed institutions...The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was appointed receiver...

organ Chase & Co. said Friday that it is dropping a clause from its credit card contracts that required disputes with customers to be handled through binding arbitration, a move that could lead to consumers filing class-action and other lawsuits....