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The first anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, deepening gloom in Greece and the much-anticipated release of the iPhone 5 were among the week’s top stories.

The auto-enrolment scheme, being phased in from October, will affect any employee aged 22 or over earning more than £8,105Eleven million workers will start being automatically enrolled in pension schemes from 1 O...

The world is full of strange behavior. It is natural to theorize this is due to irrational biases. But often apparently strange behavior is the right solution to a complex problem.

Many of America’s problems can be solved by putting idle resources to work, or redirecting wasteful spending, an economist writes.

MILAN/ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Fiat and the Italian government said on Saturday they will look for ways to improve the company's manufacturing efficiency, as the automaker pledged to keep building cars in Italy while shi...

(Reuters) - Bank of America Merrill Lynch sustained a loss of nearly $10 million on Friday due to an "operational error" in handling of stock option trades known as dividend trades by the company's Merrill Pro unit, the ...

Learning to cook for himself was originally frustrating for Alok Ranjan. He would eventually be co-founder of ifood.tv, a site with how-to videos for many types of cuisine.

The minimum wage demonstrated how concerted acts of policy can shape a more progressive pattern of earningsToday, not surprisingly, the only question is when will growth return – but at some point it will become w...

What’s really making you lose emotional control at work? Often, it’s not the upsetting situation at hand.

A reader responds to “Drop Out, Dive In, Start Up” (Sept. 16).

Amid the Federal Reserve’s new effort to bolster the economy, which stocks are good bets? Analysts advise looking at history, and trying to surmise the Fed’s goals.

A New Yorker is frustrated in trying to return items bought online to a nearby Foot Locker store — and asks the Haggler for help.

• Ex-adviser Richard Reeves says economic policy was flawed • Observer poll puts Liberal Democrats in fourth placeNick Clegg faced a double blow on Saturday night as one of his closest advisers admitted that ...

Learn how to detect deception in interviews.

An M.I.T. student and his colleagues have created a prototype for a device that guides power tools much as GPS guides a driver on a highway.

The argument that C.E.O.’s will leave if they aren’t compensated well, perhaps even lavishly, is bogus, according to a new study.

New smartphone apps can summon an army of personal assistants to help with daily tasks. But this new on-demand economy is making one user a bit uncomfortable.

Mark B. Templeton of Citrix, the Internet software company, sees two possible paths in a career: a low-risk one that others may want for you, or one where you gradually find your own way.

As long as instability continues and economic growth remains sluggish, creating jobs will remain one of the biggest challenges for Egypt.

General Motors is offering big discounts to boost sales of the Chevrolet Volt,

The violence in response to the US-made anti-Islam film in the Middle East could not have come at a worse time for countries in the region trying to move on after revolution.

In this week's Your Money, Susannah Streeter looks at the financial rights of cohabiting couples, finding the best deal when filling the tank and getting the most out of your smartphone deal.