As online interaction proliferates, consumers are coming to expect more from the relationships they have with businesses.

Worries about Europe rattled the stock market Wednesday, a day after the Dow Jones industrial average had its biggest gain in three weeks.

Britain's financial services regulator has fined insurer Prudential PLC 30 million pounds ($45.5 million) and censured its chief executive, over the company's handling of a failed bid to acquire rival the Asian subsidiary of American International Group in 2010

With so many people covered by 401(k)s, its clear that the impact of changes to their tax treatment could be substantial.