Lifestyle and Budget

Walmart is reporting surging online sales, strong performances at established stores, and it's raising profit expectations for the year heading into the holiday shopping season.

Long-term U.S. mortgage rates were steady to slightly up this week, at their highest levels in nearly eight years amid dampening home sales.

The agency will also sequester the sale of flavored e-cigarettes to minors.

A four-year journey to decide where to go to college ended for Sofie Adams when a college recruiter approached her after a softball game and asked, "Do you want to study abroad?"

Macy's heads into the crucial holiday season firing on all cylinders, logging its fourth consecutive quarter of sales growth at existing locations and getting strong reactions from customers both online and in its stores.

This year’s list includes toys like Pillow Pets and a Cabbage Patch ballerina.

Homeowners accuse the utility giant of negligence and blame the company for the fire.

A solid 70 percent of Americans plan to shop on Black Friday this year, according to a recent NerdWallet study conducted by The Harris Poll.

For those hoping for ever cheaper fares on long-haul flights, this month's takeover of Icelandic airline Wow is not good news.

California utilities again are facing severe financial pressures from the possibility that their equipment sparked catastrophic wildfires, including two that are now burning at either end of the state.

For kids growing up in today's cashless society, the piggy bank is going virtual.

Shoppers in China have once again broken records after spending more than $14 billion within the first two hours of an annual online buying frenzy.

If you're a veteran with student debt, you have repayment rights unique to military service members that can keep you on track and out of default.

After three consecutive years at the top, Harvard fell to third place.

You Can Do It! These steps can make you a millionaire.

Google is promising to be more forceful and open about its handling of sexual misconduct cases, a week after high-paid engineers and others walked out in protest over its male-dominated culture.

The beating for homebuilders is continuing as rising interest rates and home prices keep potential buyers on the sidelines.

___ Tech and health care lead US stock surge after midterms NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rallied Wednesday as investors were relieved to see that the U.S. midterm elections went largely as they expected they would.