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Hawaiian Airlines said Monday its traffic rose 2.4 percent in November while it cut capacity, leading to fuller planes. Paying passengers flew 644.3 million miles last month, up from 629.2 million in November 2008. The airline said its passenger-carrying capacity...

General Motors Co will invest $336 million in a Detroit-area plant to produce its heavily anticipated Chevrolet Volt electric car beginning next year, the No. U.S. automaker said on Monday. Assembly of Volt prototype vehicles will begin in the spring...

Recently, the Investors Intelligence research group noted that financial newsletter writers are becoming cheerier in their prognostications, with bullish sentiments at the highest level since their lows in March, and bearish sentiments at a five-year low.

Toy maker Hasbro Inc. said today it will make and market toys and games based on well-known Sesame Street characters, such as Elmo, Big Bird and Cookie Monster. The deal takes the license away from Hasbro rival Mattel Inc., which...

The Sunday Times reported that Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich Roman Abramovich , Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen Paul Allen , US billionaire Stan Kroenke and Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Mansour Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan were among a host of the world's...

CF Industries Holdings Inc. has sweetened its hostile takeover offer for rival fertilizer maker Terra Industries Inc. by 12 percent to $4.6 billion, boosting the cash portion of its bid. Terra, which has been fighting off CF's buyout attempts since...

The Home Depot Inc. says it will start selling Martha Stewart-branded paint and cleaning products next year in addition to the home decor and closet organization lines announced in September. The nation's largest home improvement retailer says it will start...

The dollar strengthened against the European single currency on Monday, drawing further support from stronger-than-expected US jobs data that was published before the weekend, analysts said. In morning European trade, the euro sank as low as 1.4756 dollars, reaching the...