The Senate's tax-writing panel voted to renew dozens of tax breaks for businesses like biodiesel and wind energy producers, even as the GOP-controlled House passed symbolic legislation to erase them and create a new tax code with lower rates and fewer special interest tax breaks.

The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits rose last week, though the data was likely skewed higher by seasonal factors.

Eighty-nine percent of senior executives at major real estate firms report that most industry organizations fail to have adequate CEO succession plans, and nearly one-third say they are not confident that their firms could immediately select a new CEO, according to a report released by Urban Land Institute, a global...