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China's yuan has weakened to a level that has some folks sweating. The offshore yuan (CNH) exchange rate has fallen to 6.20 per dollar. This comes days after policymakers announced that it would allow the yuan to swing m...

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High bids from Freeport-McMoRan Oil & Gas LLC made up more than one-third of the $850.8 million total at Wednesday's federal oil lease sale for the central Gulf of Mexico. It also was the first sale since the government ...

A guide to the local booze battle with international ramifications

FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors. We're Far From Euphoria (MarketMinder) Stocks had a record year in 2013, with the S&P 500 returnin...

As navies and media outlets from around the world converge on the Indian Ocean in search of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, some may recall another flight that ended tragically in the same waters. On the evening of Nov. 27...

In the last two years, Facebook and Google have gone from a position of merely being two big, fast-growing players in mobile advertising to dominating it completely. Combined, they have cornered 75.2% of the entire mobil...

Curious about legal weed in Colorado, but confused about the new laws and how to best take advantage of them? Well, then according to a new state website launched Thursday, here's everything you need to know about buying...

Fed meeting is likely to squeeze liquidity from US markets that could lead to investors pulling out from emerging markets

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Reserve on Wednesday downplayed the unemployment rate as a guide to the U.S. economy's health. But Janet Yellen, the new Fed chair, didn't leave investors in the dark.     

China's largest private steel maker has failed to repay a 3 billion yuan ($3.75 billion) debt, which means yet another high-profile company in China will likely face bankruptcy.

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Resumption follows two-year live exports suspension in the wake of cruelty revelations at two Egyptian abattoirs

A brand-new villa on the southern coast of Bali has just changed hands -- for somewhere above 800 bitcoins. In what appears to be the largest real-world-money purchase in bitcoin's history, an anonymous buyer has picked ...

A union-backed advocacy group alleges in a complaint to the state's Department of Health that Walgreens pharmacies in Florida are violating state law by allowing its pharmacists to sit at a table away from the actual pha...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- At her first news conference as Federal Reserve chair, Janet Yellen had a message for the financial world: The U.S. economy may need several more years to fully heal from the Great Recession.     

New Zealand's dairy farmers are trying to catch up after a drought forced its biggest buyer, China, to look to the US.

(Reuters) - Bank of America Corp is laying off workers at its global trading and investment banking divisions, Bloomberg reported quoting three people with direct knowledge of the decision.

Russia's intervention in Crimea has cost it "real economic pain," the United States said Wednesday as it readied a new slew of sanctions to punish Moscow for taking over Ukraine's southern peninsula. "The question at thi...

Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, with cancer support advocates standing behind him, announced Thursday that a deal had been reached that will lead to passage of a bill making expensive chemotherapy drugs in pill fo...

According to our analysis, the company is expected to record revenues of $27.7 billion in 2013, an ~12% year-on-year increase. Late in 2013, the company's management announced its revenue target for 2017 - it expects to ...