Stacey Vanek Smith

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.

Kids are exposed to more junk food ads on TV than they were five years ago, exacerbating the issue of child obesity. L.A. Times columnist David Lazarus offers a solution.

NASA's top space contractor will be shedding around 1,400 space shuttle workers -- about 15 percent of its workforce.