Rahim Abulaban, 22, a college student who wants to be a visual artist, has spent the summer on an acquaintance’s floor, a rite of passage.Many interns can’t rely on outside help and must invent survival tactics on the fly and take side jobs to make ends meet.

An intolerance to gluten requires a special wheat-free diet that can be costly. But some patients are finding less expensive ways to stay healthy.

A group of advertisers and TV companies discuss a consortium that would back a rival Nielsen.

With a 10 percent stake, Qatar Holding will help Porsche retire debt and ease a pending combination with Volkswagen.

Autoworkers, seeing no future in the industry, have turned to a model community college in Ohio to acquire marketable skills in other fields.

The takeover agreement marks the largest bank failure of 2009 and could be the most costly since the sudden failure of IndyMac Bancorp last year.

The sale of research and patents to Ericsson of Sweden could endanger Canada’s national security, opponents of the deal argue.

Citigroup says the federal government cannot review the compensation packages for two traders — one earning $98 million and another $30 million.

Halfway through the back-to-school shopping season, predictions of the worst performance for stores in more than a decade are yet another sign that consumers are clinging to every dollar.

Markets gave back on Friday much of what they had gained on Wednesday after the Fed offered an optimistic read of the economy.