The Obama administration has announced another delay in plans for implementing the president’s signature health care law this fall.

The Department of Health and Human Services told insurance companies Tuesday that it cannot finalize the terms for operating federal insurance exchanges until mid-September, about two weeks beyond the original deadline of next week.The delay is likely due to technological problems in the new software system.

Administration officials say they’re still on track to open the online insurance marketplaces on October 1....

Bad sign for the economy—durable goods dropped by 7.3 percent month-over-month in July, according to a Commerce Department report released Monday. Much of that drop came from a stunning 52.3 percent drop in civilian aircraft components.

But non-defense capital goods (excluding aircraft) also fell—3.3 percent—breaking four consecutive months of gains, a sign that momentum from the manufacturing sector has started to fade at a pivotal economic moment as the Federal Reserve considers policy tweaks and Congress embarks on (another) budgetary battle. -  ...

A growing number of American corporations are taking over European companies and moving their headquarters to Europe in order to  save hundreds of  millions of dollars  on taxes in the long term.

Most recently  reports The Financial Times’ Anousha Sakoui,   two pharmaceutical companies, Michigan-based Perrigo and New Jersey-based Actavis,  acquired Irish companies and moved their headquarters to Ireland. By doing so, they  will pay only a 17 percent tax rate compared to the 30 percent they would have to pay in the U.S. Both  companies estimate they will...

The administration has quietly put off another key provision of Obamacare until 2015.

The Affordable Care Act limits out-of-pocket costs to consumers, including deductibles and copayments, to $6,350 for an individual and $12,700 for a family. The White House put off implementation of that consumer protection for a year, potentially allowing insurers to set higher limits, or in some cases no limits at all. Federal officials said that many insurers and employers needed more time to comply for technical reasons.

But rather than making an...