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It's time to look ahead as a profitable year winds down.

U.S. oil and gas companies have been a job engine through much of an otherwise lackluster economic expansion. Now, after a roughly 50% plunge in oil prices, companies are cutting capital budgets and weighing layoffs.

Time Warner Cable CEO Rob Marcus filled his own holiday stockings with gifts this year. The executive sold roughly 304 million TWC shares in 2014 worth about $43.7 million, according...

Some self-published writers say their income has seen a large and rapid decrease under Amazon's Kindle Unimited program, and argue that the system is unfair.

It's a rare shift in a long-opaque industry: A firm is letting investors hire an outside monitor to review a fund's books and practices.

Tweety bird is getting hammered. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo on Friday continued to get dinged by critics calling for his scalp -- the latest salvo coming from Harvard Business School...

(Reuters) - Wall Street was generally calmer in 2014 than in previous years, but that doesn't mean the stock market was devoid of drama.

Officials said on Friday that the plan includes help for stagnant regional economies.

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Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) has been an exciting and rewarding company for investors this year with a rough gain of 28%, not taking into account the dividends paid to stockholders. But there might be more for investors...

Let's face it — the last thing you want to worry about after that second glass of eggnog is what you might have to look forward to come tax day ... in April. But I promise you, it's worth paying attention now so that y...

How should a budding entrepreneur fund and expand a start-up? And what should they be considering beforehand?

Guest:Often, innovation doesn't thrive in the well-developed system of a mature company. Here's how to make sure great ideas don't get lost in your company.

The global economy and markets always are good for some major surprises, but 2014 is going down as a year when the best bet was to expect the unexpected.

Holiday shoppers were back in force Friday, clutching gift cards, searching for deals, returning unwanted presents and feeling pretty good about the year ahead.

Air Tractor Inc., a Texas manufacturer of agricultural and firefighting airplanes, was excited about a multimillion-dollar order from Africa, but fresh questions about the future of the U.S. export-assistance agency now ...

Sure, it's no San Francisco, but at this point New York can't be ignored.

You're welcome to dance like there's nobody watching. But you'd better write emails like your email provider is going to be hacked.

Gas prices are about 94 cents a gallon lower than they were a year ago, and the slide is expected to continue in the short term.

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Gold of 99.9 and 99.5% purity rose by Rs100 each to Rs27,100 and Rs26,900 per ten gram respectively

Target date funds, online statements, robo-advisors and discount brokers all have significant downsides.