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The standoff between major global energy producers that has created an oil glut is set to continue next year in full force, as much because of the U.S. as of OPEC.

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has thrown a wrench in Japanese tire giant Bridgestone's plan to buy Pep Boys' auto parts and maintenance stores. Icahn, 79, disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Filing Friday that he ow...

Amazon.com is getting into the delivery game itself, the company announced on Friday.

BEIJING/SINGAPORE

Tencent has blocked ridehailing app Uber — and other accounts that are promoting it — on its popular mobile messaging app WeChat that now has around 600 million monthly active users. (Some 200 million have credit car...

AP Instances of a threatening superbug that scientists are calling the “phantom menace” are rising in the US, officials reported Thursday. This particular strain of bacteria is a type of Carbapenem-resistant Enteroba...

Theshold Pharmaceutical's stock plunges on heavy volume to an seven-year low after two late-stage trials of its cancer treatment failed to meet their primary endpoint.

An ad in which pretty white people travel to a remote Mexican village to bring them a Coke (and a wooden Christmas tree) shows a peculiar myopia.

(Reuters) - Keurig Green Mountain Inc, the maker of K-Cup single-serve coffee pods, said on Monday it would be bought by an investor group led by Germany's JAB Holding Co (JAB) for about $13.9 billion, creating a global ...

Weatherford International and Patterson-UTI have been strongly outperforming since third-quarter reports.

Carl Icahn has amassed a roughly 12 percent stake in Pep Boys , and the auto parts and repair company says the activist investor is interested in its retail business, a development that stirs concerns about a separate bu...

Oil and gas companies are leading an early decline in U.S. stocks as the price of crude takes another tumble. Consol Energy and Chesapeake Energy each fell 9 percent in early trading Monday. Chipotle Mexican Grill droppe...

The European Union and Ukraine say they will introduce a free trade pact next month as planned despite Russia's threat to take retaliatory trade action if its concerns aren't addressed. …

ANALYSIS: European tech IPOs have always been few and far between, but lately there's also been a trend of major players announcing, then postponing listings. What gives?

BROOKLINE, Mass.

2 new large natural gas exporting facilities proposed for Louisiana, along Mississippi River

Chipotle shares continued to fall Monday as the chain faces the first decline in a key sales figure after an outbreak of E. coli linked to its restaurants. …

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday will unveil a proposal for a new "exit tax" aimed at cracking down on corporate inversions, a practice that permits U.S. companies to merge with corporations overseas to lower their tax bill....

Oil futures keeps sliding in the aftermath of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries's decision to keep crude production running at current levels.

The union representing workers at Cadbury's chocolate factory reacts with anger as its parent company has not paid UK corporation tax.

The dollar rises as the euro unwound more of last week's gains and falling crude-oil prices dragged commodity-linked currencies lower.

U.S. stocks opened lower Monday, giving up some of Friday's big gains, while oil prices continued to slide.