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Markets are up slightly across Europe. Britain's FTSE 100 is up 0.2%. France's CAC 40 is up 0.4%. Germany's DAX is up 0.5%. Spain's IBEX is is up 1.0%. Italy's FTSE MIB is up 0.7%. These positive moves come as the prelim...

Long before Michael Anthony became the executive chef and a partner at Gramercy Tavern and won a prestigious James Beard award for "Best Chef in New York City," Anthony was a 20-year-old business, Japanese and French maj...

The executive arm of the European Union says it will give 450 million euros ($620 million) to a research program trying to develop new railroad technologies by 2020.

Entitle, a Wilmington, North Carolina company with just five full-time employees, is taking on the e-book arm of a little company called Amazon. Founded by Bryan Batten with a $5.3 million angel investment, Entitle funct...

A former member of the U.S. Army's military intelligence unit was given a 28 year prison sentence on Monday for operating a bogus military charity scamming donors up to $100 million, reports ABC News. John Donald Co...

Christmas is just around the corner, leaving us with precious few shopping days 'til the big holiday. If you've been procrastinating, you really need to get on it now. As in: Fire up your browser and start your online sh...

While he's not the most bullish on the Street, Deutsche Bank's David Bianco believe that 2014 will indeed see some growth. "The US economy should sustain a long lasting expansionary cycle of moderate growth, which will m...

With the advent of Instagram Direct, a new feature from the photo-sharing platform that allows you to send photos to a select group of people, comes a lot of responsibility. Is there anything that strikes more fear in th...

DBK can keep a pricing gun alive for 20 years or more. Now it’s on the front lines of Starbucks’ $1 billion loyalty-card program.

Nearly 4,500 Sikorsky Aircraft workers in Connecticut and Florida began working under a new four-year contract Monday, a day after they approved the deal by an overwhelming margin.

San Francisco-based Homejoy mops houses for $20 an hour. It may not sound glamorous, but if Homejoy's booming business is anything to go by, plenty of Americans don't want to get their hands dirty: Homejoy currently off...

The upcoming week is loaded with a host of data, including numbers on manufacturing, inflation, housing and the nation's GDP, not to mention Ben Bernanke's swan song at the Federal Open Market Committee, or FOMC, meeting...

5 investment managers and strategists explain what's behind their top bets for next year.

The report also highlights the vulnerability of Bitcoin exchanges to hacking

Germany's finance minister says Berlin will decide quickly on a replacement for a top European Central Bank official who is returning to domestic politics, and he's praising a senior Bundesbank official who is seen as a ...

France's Flash Composite PMI fell to a 7-month low of 47.0. This is down from 48.0 in November. Any reading below 50 signals contraction. The services activity, manufacturing output, and manufacturing PMI sub-indices all...

Are requirements of the nation's new health care law driving up out-of-pocket costs for people buying their own insurance?

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TOKYO (AP) -- Business confidence at Japan's major manufacturers rose to a six-year high, according to a quarterly central bank survey released Monday, amid optimism over Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic recovery pro...

We're in the throes of holiday-shopping furor. Stores are battling for consumers' dollars. Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday and every other day in between are heralded as the one-and-only chance to get...

After being shuttered for more than a year, China's Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) window is wide open. Autohome, the Chinese auto website, made its successful debut on the New York Stock Exchange last week, reviving ot...

A country's ability to innovate is traditionally measured by things like R&D spending levels, the quality of its universities and the availability of venture capital. But we are not measuring something equally if not mor...