Stacey Vanek Smith

We don't usually talk too much about weekly jobless claims. They jump around a lot and it can be dangerous to read too much into them. But they caught our eye this morning. Nearly 480,000 people filed for unemployment benefits last week -- that's the highest level since April. Stacey Vanek Smith reports.

Barnes & Noble shares are flying high after the company announced it's considering putting itself up for sale. It's the latest plot twist for a publishing industry that's madly trying to figure out its next chapter. Stacey Vanek-Smith reports.

Poor wheat harvests around the world, particularly Russia, are blamed for the more than 50 percent increase of the price of wheat. But U.S. farmers, who've had healthy harvests this year, are cashing in.

Read details about Axoicom's 70 clusters on their website using the PersonicsX Interactive Wheel. I just got my data mined. It was a little bit ...

In part two of our series on data mining, Marketplace's Stacey Vanek Smith visits a data mining company and sees what they know about her through her credit card transactions, Facebook account... It's a lot.

Regulators are meeting at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to discuss major loopholes banks have found in the new financial reform.

Every time you swipe one a rewards card at a store, that data goes somewhere to get analyzed. Marketplace's Stacey Vanek-Smith takes a look at the multi-billion dollar data mining industry -- how it has evolved and where it will go.

About 454,000 people lost their jobs last week and filed for unemployment benefits, according to the Labor Department.

BP thinks it can stop the oil leak by July 27, weeks ahead of schedule -- and also in time for the second-quarter earnings report.

President Obama is appointing 18 CEOs to serve on a council which will focus on doubling exports.