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Tableau Software shares soared in their trading debut Friday after the company and some of its investors raised about $254.2 million in its initial public offering.
Seattle-based Tableau Software Inc. provides software that helps businesses convert data into visual presentations.
The shares jumped $17.50, or 56 percent, to $48.50 in morning trading. Earlier, the company sold 5 […]

The cost of living in the U.S. fell in April for a second month, the first back-to-back declines in inflation since late 2008, as fuel prices retreated.
The consumer-price index decreased 0.4 percent, the biggest decrease since December 2008, after falling 0.2 percent in March, according to Labor Department figures released today in Washington. Economists […]

In September 2010, the Ontario government reduced the medical benefits you could get under your car insurance policy for injuries suffered in a motor vehicle accident.
The $100,000 limit for treatments not covered by the health care system was reduced to $50,000. But for accident victims who had minor injuries, such as strains, sprains and whiplash, […]

NEW YORK—The good news for the Blue Jays is that Josh Johnson says the soreness in his throwing arm is neither in his elbow nor his shoulder.
“It’s in, I guess, a good spot, if there is one,” the Jays’ towering right-hander offered on Friday, after it was announced he would miss the night’s start due […]

There are many ways to finance a bike-share program.
One is the public model, where the city or region owns the program and it’s operated on a day-to-day basis by a contractor. Then there are public-private partnerships, run by for-profits or non-profits. And, as with Toronto’s Bixi, there is the private non-profit model.
The public model, seen […]

Graybar Electric Co. is suing its former chief financial officer, alleging he improperly took confidential computer files and trade secrets when he resigned and may have given sensitive information to his new employer.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis, says D. Beatty D’Alessandro violated federal and state computer tampering laws and […]

The U.S. federal budget deficit jumped in February from January, though it is still running well below last year’s pace. Higher taxes and an improving economy are expected to hold the deficit below $1 trillion for the first time since President Barack Obama took office.
The Treasury Department says the deficit grew in February by $203.5 […]

U.S. stocks closed higher Monday, as investors await the outcome of an uncertain U.S. presidential election.
The Dow Jones industrial average added 0.1% and the S&P 500 gained 0.2%. The Nasdaq rose 0.6%.

The latest CNN poll indicates a dead heat in the race for the White House, with 49% of likely […]

In another sign of a housing market recovery, new-home sales rose in September to the highest level in more than two years, according to a government report released Wednesday.
Sales sold at an annual rate of 389,000 homes in the month, according to the Census Bureau report, up 5.7% from the 368,000 sales […]

The first debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney was a fire hose of fiscal issues that nonetheless left many questions unresolved.
Romney did try to answer one unequivocally: He said he will not cut taxes for the rich.
Quiz: What the rich really pay in taxes

“I will not reduce the share […]