Oprah Winfrey’s latest ad campaign highlighting her 40-pound weight loss caused Weight Watchers shares to surge, but they are still down sharply overall in 2016, despite her investment in the company.

As a final deadline approached for Monte dei Paschi di Siena to pull off a last-ditch rescue plan, a state bailout for the ailing Italian bank looked certain. David Pollard reports.

Weight Watchers stock climbed, but Gerber Kawasaki’s Ross Gerber tells Reuters’ Fred Katayama people prefer using digital products to manage weight loss than count calories at the weight management chain.

After decades of trying, scientists have finally devised a powerful vaccine against a terrifying contagion.

Beijing and other parts of China have for days been under a “red alert” issued because of dangerously bad air quality.

President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Republican National Committee communications director Sean Spicer to serve as White House press secretary.