The National Foreign Trade Council sues Illinois, saying sanctions the state imposed against Sudan are unconstitutional. Businesses that are part of the NFTC include Boeing Co., Caterpillar Inc., Chevron Corp., Exxon Mobil Corp., Microsoft Corp., Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp. and...

Exxon Mobil Corp. reports its second-quarter profit rose 35 percent to $10 billion. It is the second-biggest quarterly operating profit ever made by a company in the U.S. Exxon's fourth-quarter profit, posted in January, was the largest....

AP - Soaring energy prices catapulted Exxon Mobil to a second-quarter profit of more than $10 billion and promise to ignite industrywide growth — and public outrage — all year.

Amid investors' worries about the timing of Microsoft Corp.'s launch of its new operating system, stocks fell on Thursday. However, blue chips finished near the flat line, as shares of Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest public oil company, shot to an all-time high after it reported quarterly...

AP - Soaring energy prices catapulted Exxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, to a second-quarter profit of more than $10 billion, and they promise to ignite industrywide growth — and public outrage — all year.