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Wikimedia Commons You’ve probably received a newfangled chip card that offers better protection against ID theft when used in a store. Too bad most stores aren’t accepting them yet. Three-quarters of retailers haven�...

REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser OPEC’s decision at its semi-annual meeting in Vienna on Friday not to cut production but to legitimize its overproduction shows that the group is determined at any cost to recover the market sh...

A variety of factors is behind the price drop, analysts say, but OPEC's decision on Friday not to tinker with its output, which is now at near-record levels, sent prices into a collapse.

Current tea price and output trends do not show enough reasons to support a surge

Sales leave the automaker just shy of the 1 million mark so far this year.          

The consensus is now in: The Federal Reserve will raise the interest rate -- just a little -- at its meeting next week. In today's column and in Thursday's, I'm going to give you some fun facts and bold predictions about...

Apple's legendary founder Steve Jobs may not be around, but the company he started has turned into an ATM machine, dispensing billions of dollars in profits. His successor, Tim Cook, has been doing a great job in managin...

In letters arriving this week at the homes of striking Coca-Cola employees, the company alleges union leaders are engaged in "false attacks" and says it has asked the National Labor Relations Board for an expedited inves...

Shutterstock Managing your finances can be confusing. You might hear all sorts of advice that seems prudent. And you might assume that you’re taking the right approach by acting on this advice. But what seems like a sm...

The legislation doesn't require companies to look for terrorist material but to report it when they come across it.          

AP Many department stores are expected to struggle this holiday season as customers spend on electronics instead of apparel.   One retailer, Kohl's, is bucking that trend. Retail research company SCM World said it e...

MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty In 2000, Goldman Sachs had 600 traders in New York City making markets in US stocks. Today, that number is down to fewer than 10. The statistic is one of several nuggets from a Credit Suisse report...

Can the Science Based Targets initiative push companies to do better when it comes to meeting greenhouse gas emissions targets? As the UN climate meetings in Paris come to an end this week, diplomats from around the worl...

Asian markets tumbled after global oil benchmarks hit the lowest levels in almost seven years in U.S. trading, sending energy stocks and raw materials producers sharply lower.

Staples will face a challenge by U.S. antitrust officials, who said for the second time in 20 years that the office supply chain's proposed takeover of Office Depot Inc. will …

After the billionaire presidential candidate tweeted that Amazon loses money, Bezos struck back on Twitter. Oh, yes, Jeff Bezos did. Suggest sending billionaire Republican presidential candidate and full-time publicity h...

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The Innovation and Science Agenda aims to encourage more startup to take bigger risks for growth and expansion. Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull put incentives on the shift from mining boom to ideas boom, pushing the coun...

The IRS recently issued Revenue Procedure 2015-57, which addresses certain student loan discharges under the Department of Education’s Closed School Discharge Process and the “Defense to Repayment” Discharge Proces...

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Let's face it: Debt makes you fragile. This seems obvious in a financial sense, but it goes much deeper. High levels of debt can affect your physical and emotional health via your body's natu...

Yahoo’s board has reportedly decided to not move forward with spinning off its stake of Alibaba and is instead looking to part ways with its core business. The move has resulted in a more than 2 percent jump in the pri...

French luxury retailer Chanel is paying a record price for retail space in Los Angeles as prime shopping locations in the nation's major urban areas command rising premiums.