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Martin Wheatley's 10-point plan includes stripping the BBA of its role and making Libor manipulation a criminal offenceMartin Wheatley's 10-point plan to overhaul the way the Libor market operates could eventually give h...

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(Reuters) - Groupon Inc , the world's largest online daily deals provider, is reshuffling senior management roles in an attempt to fix its struggling European business -- a shake-up that will also include the departure o...

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A Spar in Walthamstow, north london, is the unlikely location of an award winning convenience storeWhat would Arkwright and Granville have made of Sicilian pizzas cooked while you wait, organic avocados and raspberries a...

DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. auto sales will likely rise 8 percent or more in September as dealers offered generous cash incentives on pickup trucks that amounted to as much as $10,000 a vehicle in some areas of the United S...

Dilma Rousseff at odds with prime minister, but he backs Brazil's campaign to join UN security councilBrazil's president made a timely, though probably innocent, intervention during Britain's party political conference s...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Friday said it was seeking to open the long-term sustainment of the Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter program to competition from other companies as part of an overall drive to lowe...

Every company would love to find a citizen-pitchman like Subway's Jared Fogle, whose weight-loss story from eating Subway sandwiches played up that chain's healthy-living brand position. But what can you do if that perfe...

Starbucks will open its first outlet in India by the end of October in an upscale neighborhood of Mumbai and has appointed a chief executive to head its India joint venture, the company said Friday.

The FDA today approved the Subcutaneous Implantable Defibrillator (S-ICD) system from Cameron Health. The device is the first ICD that does not require a lead that connects directly to the heart and  therefore  ...

Who said football can't be sexy? Well, besides when Rey Maualuga decided to wear a thong during practice while playing at USC.

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2012—well, late 2011—was supposed to be the start of a new era for New York racing. After a decade of uncertainty, the leadership and financial holes were closed, management stabilized, a positive revenue s...

When the economy slowed in the summer of 2010 and the Fed launched QE2, commodity prices took off like a SpaceX rocket. The price of crude oil reversed to the upside along with the stock market, surging up 64%, from $70 ...

ConAgra Foods, Inc. (CAG - Analyst Report) recently reported solid fiscal first quarter 2013 results, which included a raised fiscal 2013 guidance, an increased quarterly dividend and an expansion plan in Arkansas. The s...

New Jersey faces some tough issues. And not just being a ubiquitous punch line and those occasionally uncomfortably close-to-accurate Sopranos storylines.

Hornby, famous for its model trains, has made many changes to stay viable. But straying into the realm of Olympic souvenirs did it no favoursThe wind bent the rain to the diagonal. In the Just the Ticket cafe at the Horn...

Between defense department budget cuts, cancelled commercial airplane orders and the possibility that a big competitor is about to grow, aerospace company Boeing (BA) isn’t catching any breaks these days, and inve...

Crunchyroll wants to iTunify Anime. With a new app coming to the Xbox 360 and over 100,000 subscribers, the service is leading the Cable 2.0 charge.

No wonder the protesters are back. They are angry at the backdoor rewriting of the social contractThroughout the 1980s and 90s, when many developing countries were in crisis and borrowing money from the International Mon...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Germany's Commerzbank said on Friday it was cooperating with U.S. prosecutors in a case involving a bank employee charged with conflict-of-interest violations and exposing an Internal Revenue Servi...