If approved, the $39 billion merger would create a telecom colossus and a potential threat to innovation.

Julia Coronado, chief economist at the investment bank BNP Paribas, explains how mergers, like AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile, is an indicator for the health of the economy.

Analysts predict that AT&T's buyout of T-Mobile marries some good news with some bad news for consumers.

Here are today's headlines from The Marketplace Morning Report and around the web. …

Mobile carrier AT&T has agreed to buy No. 4 wireless carrier T-Mobile. The deal would make AT&T the nation's biggest wireless company — but could leave the market with just two dominant providers.

In the digital age, are newspapers companies still worth buying? California's Freedom Communications is on the block and about to find out.

Stock prices jumped yesterday on the announcement that Sprint and T-Mobile resumed discussions of a merger. A merger of the two companies would combine the third- and fourth-largest U.S. wireless providers.

LVMH owns luxury brands from Louis Vuitton to Moet champagne and it now plans to sell watches. It will acquire a major piece of Italian jeweler Bulgari for $5.2 billion. Stephen Beard explains.

Betting on American consumers and rebounding property prices, private equity investor Blackstone Group is to buy nearly 600 shopping centers.