Bank of America's leaders have long been drawn from the crew who transformed a once-modest North Carolina-based lender into a nationwide institution. Even as those empire builders snapped up rivals from San Francisco to Boston, they kept their megabank...

Estee Lauder said better-than-expected sales of higher-margin new products and lower spending at each of its businesses helped offset weak consumer spending.

CIT Group Inc., a major lender to small and midsize businesses, said Tuesday its Chairman and Chief Executive Jeffrey Peek plans to resign at the end of the year.

Former Super Bowl star Plaxico Burress has been sentenced to two years in prison for possessing a weapon at a Manhattan nightclub. The former New York Giants wide receiver was sentenced Tuesday in Manhattan's state Supreme Court. He will be supervised...

Pfizer Inc. will pay a $2.3 billion civil penalty in connection with promoting some of its products for medical conditions different than their approved use.