A report showing a global decline in clean energy investment is consistent with recent trends in New Jersey, according to observers of the state’s landscape. But renewable energy watchers say the pattern is not cause for alarm.

If you want to know where New Jersey ranks in the Tax Foundation's latest State Business Tax Climate Index, don't start at the top of the page.

The head of a business association supporting retailers remains adamantly opposed to a plan to raise the minimum wage, with future hikes tied to the consumer price index, though a recent poll shows strong support of the measure from voters.

Trenton's top lobbying firm is adding a strategic communications arm, State Street has learned.

Sister chief executives Denise Morrison, of Campbell Soup, and Maggie Wilderotter, of Frontier Communications, are leading by example when they urge female executives to take risks to further their careers: both are making high-stakes bids to transform their 100-year-old-plus companies to succeed in a fast-changing world.

Gov. Chris Christie picked up support from the business community today in renewing his push for a 10 percent tax cut to the income tax, a move that was considered dormant at best when optimistic revenue targets fell far short of expectations early in the fiscal year.