Retail and Business

Jethro’s BBQ n’ LakeHouse, located in Ankeny’s Prairie Trail development, opened last week and is now serving up barbecue and Cajun food. The restaurant’s ribbon cutting will take place today at 4:30 p.m. The 7,000 …

Holders of American Express, Capital One and Discover credit cards are due $435 million as a result of a crackdown on deceptive credit card practices by the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, CNNMoney reported. Customers …

As talks continue over how to avoid the “fiscal cliff,” a new Pew Research Center poll suggests that Democrats have public opinion on their side.

When it comes to reaching an agreement to avoid the …

The U.S. Small Business Administration and the Department of Labor launched a new website to support state workforce and unemployment agencies in their efforts to help unemployed residents start their own businesses.

Those who take …

Most Americans are nowhere close to having their holiday shopping done, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found. The poll boosts retailers’ hopes for a bump in sales during the last two weeks before Christmas.

The poll, …

American companies are poised to put idle cash to work as demand rebounds in 2013 after spending slumped amid the slowdown in China and Europe’s recession, Bloomberg reported. 

Manufacturers project they will invest more next …

FedEx Corp. has been “systematically overcharging” customers by billing businesses and government offices at higher residential rates, a company sales executive said in an internal email unsealed in a lawsuit, Bloomberg reported.

“I have brought this …

Total retail sales in Iowa were 4.9 percent higher than the previous fiscal year, according to a year-end report released Monday by the Iowa Department of Revenue. The state collected $2.06 billion in retail sales tax …

Retailers added 465,500 seasonal workers in November, the most ever added during what is typically the busiest hiring month of the holiday hiring season, according to an analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of …

As of November, men and women have gained back half the jobs they lost during the financial crisis, CNNMoney reported.

The recession hit male-dominated industries such as construction and manufacturing far harder than female-dominated industries …