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Mark Rachesky's $7 billion deal to sell satellite company Loral Space & Communications has been grounded, The Post has learned. Talks between Loral and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, which...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. finished its best year of job growth since 1999 with brisk hiring and a drop in unemployment last month, but there's little indication that workers will start seeing wages go up much any time soon.

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In each state, there was at least one county with a median annual household income more than $7,000 lower than the state's median income. Virginia and Maryland had counties with median incomes over $35,000 lower than tha...

Kelly Porter, a managing partner at investment bank Woodside Capital Partners, has sold his massive Los Altos Hills, California home to Nora Lacey, president of biotechnology company Cell Marque Corporation.  The sale p...

At a cost of $70 billion a year, Russia has the world's third-largest defence budget. For that, the state boasts 845,000 troops, 22,550 tanks, and 1,399 combat aircraft. Though the country is perhaps not considered the ...

An emerging body of research suggests that adolescents in wealthy families are more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety, substance abuse problems and other ailments than their less-well-off peers.

On Friday, Box updated its S1 and confirmed that it has launched its roadshow, one of the first steps IPO-bound companies go through to sell its stocks to investors. Box's stock offering valued the company at a maximum...

Fitch has downgraded Russia's credit rating and painted a horrific picture of a struggling economy rocked by a collapsing rouble, falling oil prices, high inflation and declining international reserves. The ratings agenc...

Companies led by someone who owns at least 5% of the shares outstanding on average generate higher returns for investors, according to a study published last year in the Journal of Finance.

China has banned drivers of private cars from offering services through ride-hailing apps, throwing up a new hurdle to Uber Technologies Inc.'s global expansion.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average followed European market declines on Friday after oil prices fell and U.S. jobs figures showed the unemployment rate dropping in December, as wages decreased and the number of Americans w...

Man vs. Machine.

The Kindle Voyage is the best e-reader you can buy, but at $200 (with ads) the price represents a steep increase over The Wirecutter's top pick, the $120 Kindle Paperwhite.

Yesterday, Topeka Capital analyst Victor Anthony maintained a Buy rating on Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) with a $96 target price. Topeka's target price represents an upside of 23.5% over Facebook's last closing share price ...

People buy Toyota's Camry it because it feels comfortable, safe, and sweetly refined, shrewdly lacking in stimulation, says Dan Neil.

Did somebody say "free tuition"?

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The best companies see people as more than a mere means to an end, but an end in themselves.

The mostly residential borough of Glen Ridge, N.J., about 20 miles from Manhattan, has gas lamps on many of its streets and a small, well-regarded school district.

Uncle Sam could take a bigger bite at tax time for consumers who received too much government help last year with their Obamacare premiums.

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