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Businesses large and small are feeling the effects of a huge snowstorm sweeping into the Northeast Monday.

Attorney General Buddy Caldwell filed a lawsuit Tuesday against State Farm, alleging Louisiana's largest auto insurer is illegally steering customers involved in car accidents to repair shops that use junkyard parts and choose cheap fixes over safety.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans a swing through Silicon Valley on Thursday, speaking with Stanford University experts about innovation, building relationships with tech firms and investors, and — as head of one of the world's leading car producing nations — popping in on electric carmaker Tesla Motors.

Ally Financial, one of the nation’s largest auto lenders, fell slightly in its public debut after wrapping up the largest U.S. initial public offering so far this year.

General Motors plans to sell its remaining 9.9% stake in Ally Financial. Meanwhile, shares climbed on an upbeat report from Hayman Capital.

Freighters once carried Cuban nickel and limestone to the port of New Orleans and North Dakota beans to Havana.

Auto plants, clothing makers and plastics factories drove a sharp rebound in manufacturing in July.

A decline in refining oil caused U.S. factory output to slip in May, overshadowing solid gains by automakers.

Presidents Day deals and unrelenting demand for sport-utility vehicles powered February auto sales, including double-digit gains for Ford and Fiat Chrysler.

Winter weather and a calendar quirk led to mixed results for U.S. auto sales in January, although trucks and SUVs remained hot sellers across the board.

With Volkswagen's admission that 11 million of its diesel vehicles worldwide contain software that can rig emissions tests, the German automaker joins a list of auto industry scandals that spans several decades.

The latest developments in the scandal enveloping Volkswagen over the company's admission that it rigged emissions tests for diesel-powered cars.

Lawmakers in Tennessee plan hearings over whether the Volkswagen emissions scandal could imperil the nearly $900 million in state and local incentives that have been directed toward the German automaker's lone U.S. plant in Chattanooga.

Subaru says it plans to spend $140 million on expanding an Indiana factory where it expects to add some 1,200 jobs in the next two years.

The CEO of Volkswagen apologized Sunday after the Environmental Protection Agency said the German automaker skirted clean air rules by rigging emissions tests for about 500,000 diesel cars.

The National Transportation Safety Board has agreed to investigate some limousine accidents, something it has rarely done in the past.

Toyota is recalling about 421,000 RAV4 vehicles because of potential corrosion in their windshield wipers could make them inoperable.

General Motors says it will pay $575 million to settle civil lawsuits filed over faulty small-car ignition switches.

The U.S. government has closed an investigation into power steering failures in Ford vehicles after Ford Motor Co. conducted a recall.

Fiat Chrysler is recalling 27,520 Dodge Darts worldwide because the small cars' transmissions can unexpectedly shift into neutral.