Business Beat: Holiday bonuses, online shopping, AbbVie hep C deal

Are you finishing in the money?

Nearly 80 percent of employers are giving workers some kind of a holiday bonus or gift this year, according to a Challenger Gray & Christmas survey.

It’s down to the wire online shoppers, retailers and shippers

As the holiday shopping season winds down, FedEx, UPS and online retailers are using the last few days to try to avoid the problems that occurred last year when severe winter weather and a surge in late orders from shoppers caused delivery delays.

AbbVie, Express Scripts reach huge hepatitis C deal

The nation’s largest pharmacy benefits manager is throwing its weight into a fight over the high cost of treating hepatitis C, saying it will cover a drug from AbbVie while pulling back on those from rival drugmakers.

Stocks push to record highs, extend rally

Railroads want to run freight trains with one-person crews

BMW to replace air bags nationwide

United to flight direct from Chicago to Rome

First Midwest to restructure commercial banking division

U.S. home sales in November hit slowest pace in 6 months

Airbus delivers first A350 jet at long last

Air China agrees to order 60 Boeing jets; deal worth $6 billion

Tribune Media sells Baltimore property for $46.5 million