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When it comes to careers, young people are often advised to find their true calling. But for many, the sense of fulfillment grows only over time, as they become better at their jobs.

Student research at Ohio State could play a role in creating lighter-weight, more environmentally sustainable cars and trucks.

Cause and effect are hard to prove, but it seems reasonable that central banks’ recent moves are providing the spark for stock market rallies worldwide.

A reader responds to “The Big Myth of Painful Choices” (Economic View, Sept. 23).

It’s a travel sweepstakes with a twist: Flightfox.com asks users to find the lowest fares for other travelers planning trips — and gives a finder’s fee to the winner.

To the ire of some customers who couldn’t get their lenders to work with them before, banks are now forgiving mortgage debts that no longer exist.

The chief of Revolution Foods aims to provide healthy school meals. The company now creates a daily volume of 200,000 breakfasts, lunches, snacks and dinners.

Jacqueline Novogratz of the Acumen Fund, which invests in businesses aiding the world’s poor, says, “We think about our values in pairs, and there is a tension or a balance between them.”

The former eBay chief and gubernatorial candidate has found her Act III at Hewlett-Packard. But the challenge of re-energizing the company for a new information era is daunting.

RIYADH (Reuters) - Wealthy Qatar, a major investor in U.S. and European assets, worries that haphazard attempts by countries to shore up their economies could weaken the dollar and the euro, its prime minister said.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - One of Boeing's chief labor unions staged rallies in and around Seattle this week, calling attention to a vote set for Monday that will show whether workers are willing to accept a less generous contr...

The medical marijuana industry is under siege. Legal in 17 States and the District of Columbia, the marijuana dispensaries are not recognized as legal operations under federal law. Aside from the constant threat of raids...

The advantages of small-town living are well known to Americans — and not just because of Norman Rockwellesque clichés about values, neighborliness and pace of life.

General Motors Co. is recalling more than 40,000 cars.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Greece will receive its next tranche of international aid despite budget shortfalls and slow progress on reforms because the euro zone does not want the country to leave the common currency, two German...

The beer's Summit hop features flavors of grapefruit, pine, orange and pineapple

Funds that look for hot growth have beaten bargain-hunting ones so far this year. The reason: The rise in Apple.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that a lower court should reconsider a sales ban against Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 won by Apple in a patent dispute with the South Korean electronics maker.

Female economists tend to favor a bigger role for government while male economists have greater faith in business and the marketplace.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said it raided several lead recycling companies in a number of European Union countries on September 26 as part of an investigation into suspected cartel practices.

They are the Ghost and Phantom that were meant to family cars that celebrate the Art Deco era

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street will open October with a busy week, highlighted by low expectations for global manufacturing data and the U.S. jobs report, but that could set the stage for positive surprises that help l...