Simon Property Group

The average CEO of an S&P 500 company brings home almost $13 million -- but some earn much more. The AP's list of the 10 highest-paid CEOs highlights where the biggest paychecks went -- and what America's companies got in return.

With 2012's first earnings season well under way, let's go over some of the items that will help shape the week that lies ahead: Here's why you should be watching one major mall owner, two tech giants, three homebuilders and a couple of old media behemoths.

A third of America's indoor malls are currently in financial distress as retailers vacate for trendier shopping areas. But a surprising new breed of tenant is stepping in to fill that vacant retail space: churches.

At the beginning of the year, the 76-year-old publishing-industry magazine Kirkus Reviews was saved from the chopping block. A month later, Kirkus has a new owner: shopping-mall mogul Herbert Simon, who owns the NBA's Indiana Pacers.

Billionaire mall developer and Indiana Pacers owner Mel Simon died on Wednesday at 82. The founder of Simon Property Group (SPG), the largest public real estate company in the U.S., Simon was a major player in the postwar mall boom that both fed and benefited from America's vast expansion into...

The era of the frugal consumer continues. Yet another tell-tale stat of the restructuring under way in the U.S. economy: consumer spending (or lack thereof) at the nation's malls. The recession and the pull-back in consumer spending is turning malls into ghost towns, according to The Wall Street...