The chief executive has used personal stakes in Chesapeake’s wells to obtain more than $800 million in private loans. Carl Icahn wants four new directors on the nine-member board.

As the unemployment rate declines, people seem to be more optimistic, with higher-income households expecting pay increases.

The company, which makes software products for engineers, posted a $28.2 million first-quarter profit, reversing a loss in the same quarter last year on strong demand for new products and cost controls....

Fallout from JPMorgan Chase’s bad bets is revealing lapses in the policing of the office that disclosed a multibillion trading loss.

Jack Kavanaugh, the father of the Relativity Media chief executive, Ryan Kavanaugh, was ordered on Friday to pay $250,000 in punitive damages for his role in the sale of a fraudulent Picasso drawing.

The Treasury Department’s decision should help avert a trade dispute, but the department said that the renminbi is still undervalued.

This week's Your Money column looks at the government's latest attempt to help some homeowners refinance mortgages, even though they owe more than their homes are worth.

Despite some problems with lenders, a new version of the HARP federal refinancing program offers less restrictive rules — but the success of the program remains to be seen.

The first week of the insider trading trial of Rajat K. Gupta wraps up.

The gist of the filing filing in the government's suit against Apple over ebooks is the same as Apple's previous comments on the case: the company denies that it conspired with book publishers to raise ...

Cisco has dropped out of the tablet business, saying people inside companies bring their own devices to work. It was called the Cius and, no, you couldn't have been expected to know that. That said, Cisco ...

Activist investor Carl Icahn reported on Friday that he owns a 7.56% stake in Chesapeake Energy and called for a board shake-up.

David Carr discusses why New Orleans and Michigan are on the leading edge of corporate experiments to end daily print newspaper publication in favor of Web-based news sites.

The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. Friday's selection includes a plan to build a hydroponic garden atop a Microsoft garage, Cisco ...

Bruce Nolan, who covers religion for the newspaper, spoke up at meeting led by Jim Amoss, the editor of the newspaper, about the change to three-times-a-week publishing.

A new festival that aims to bring together interesting and innovative thinkers and entrepreneurs from the start-up world and tech industry is born on Kickstarter -- and quickly attracts more than 500 backers ...

In Washington, lawmakers and regulators are scrutinizing the fairness of Facebook's I.P.O. process. In New York, a prosecutor continues his broad campaign to end insider trading. A look back on our reporting ...

A proposed $770 million buyout of the oil company Venoco has many lessons on how much influence a chief executive can have on a management-led deal.

Nasdaq said 30 million Facebook shares were executed improperly Friday because of technical flaws, and retail investors have spent the week looking for someone to address their losses.

Texas required any homeowner seeking to refinance a mortgage or take out a home equity loan to have at least 20 percent equity after taking out the new loan.

While Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, has agreed to testify before a Congressional committee in June to discuss the bank's recent multimillion dollar trading loss, he hasn't committed ...

Spain is trying to avert a failure of Bankia, its biggest mortgage lender, which could threaten the Spanish banking industry and reverberate through Europe and beyond.

When the government kick-started the Internet and shared the GPS system with the public, it transformed the economy. Now it is opening up government data.

Scott Schoen, a former co-president of the private equity firm, will remain a senior adviser to the firm and will serve as a board member for two portfolio companies.

The winemaking business may be the province of the wealthy, but Bucks readers tell their tales of that special glass of wine.

With the big carriers cutting routes and raising fares, this would seem like an ideal time for a new airline to take them on. But it’s not an easy task.

Replacements Limited, of North Carolina, lost customers and got a lot of hate mail when it and its founder urged voters to reject a gay marriage ban.

If there is one investment that has more to do with the heart than the head, it’s vineyards. Wealthy people have yet to be deterred by the prospect of never making a profit.

It will be telling to see how JPMorgan's botched bet shows up in crucial areas of the bank's balance sheet.

Euro fears prompt some depositors to leave Spanish banks. Mining booms once more in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. A weekend retreat for divorce.

With copper trading at high prices, a remote area of Michigan is rediscovering its mining roots, raising hopes that the region will recover from a long slump.

Shares of Talbots tumble on Friday after the women's clothing retailer says the private equity firm Sycamore Partners walked away from talks over a proposed $215 million buyout of the women's clothing ...

Falling stocks trimmed the first weekly gain in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index since April as worries about Spain’s finances spread.

The owner of The Times-Picayune decides to cut publication to three days a week, and Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain insists there was no conspiracy between the government and News Corporation....

The government estimates the resources industry will need an extra 89,000 workers by 2016 to meet demand, with Australia needing a peak of 49,000 short-term jobs in the resources sector in 2014.

Although the import rules have been in effect since 2005, the European trade commissioner said Argentina “tightened the screws” when it extended them to cover all imports.

Lawyers’ advice to corporate clients is frank: Remove cash and other liquid assets from Greece and prepare to take a short-term hit on any other investments.

In The New York Times on Friday, Nathaniel Popper reports on the plight of small investors who got caught up in the problems surrounding Facebook's initial public offering. By Nasdaq's own admission, 30 ...

Taking calcium may pose heart risks, summer gas prices are expected to be moderately lower, a battle brews over labeling of genetically modified food and other consumer-focused news from The New York Times....

Highlights from the DealBook newsletter.

New York recently issued guidelines for how schoolteachers should deal with social media. The guidelines say teachers cannot "friend" or follow students through sites like Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, ...

After a judge found that Pom Wonderful had exaggerated the health benefits of its juice, the company fought back with advertising that cherry-picked comments from the ruling.

One crucial issue: Do you want to make a lot of money, or do you want to run the show?

Retail investors in the botched initial public offering of Facebook have spent much of this week looking for someone to address their losses, or even just to answer questions about where they can take ...

The major television networks are fighting to preserve the traditional model of paying for their programming.

Prosecutors used e-mails and phone calls to suggest that Rajat K. Gupta, a former director at Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble, was close friends with Raj Rajaratnam, who was convicted of insider trading ...

What to do if a YouTube video becomes hung up and won't continue to the end of the clip.

Without major changes in health care costs, the day of rationing of care draws near, even if elected officials dare not mention it, an economist writes.