The North Carolina Farm Bureau is releasing a report on the state's agricultural work force, which looks at the availability and retention of workers during the past five years.

Tenet Healthcare Corp. returned to a profit in last year's fourth quarter, as outpatient procedures rose for the hospital operator and it left behind some one-time costs.

Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in Monday's auction with rates on three-month Treasury bills rising to the highest level in two years.

Health insurer Humana Inc. said Monday that Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer James Bloem will retire at the end of this year.

Stocks are dropping sharply as investors worry that Italy could be seized with political paralysis, stymieing the country's economic reforms and causing another flare-up in the region's debt crisis.

The Food and Drug Administration has expanded approval of a Bayer cancer pill to treat tumors of the intestinal tract that don't respond to other treatments.

AT&T is announcing a tentative agreement on wages, pensions and other benefits for more than 20,000 of its unionized workers.

Health care giant Johnson & Johnson said Monday that it expects to take a charge of about $100 million to its first-quarter net income due to Venezuela's currency devaluation.