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It's not negative yet, but China's inflation rate is going the other way. Core inflation slowed to 1.4% in 2015 due to lackluster domestic demand amid a slowing economy, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Saturd...

Arch Coal, one of the U.S.'s largest coal producers, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday in a bid to trim $4.5 billion in debt from its balance sheet to counter decreased demand and falling prices for its p...

Volkswagen's CEO plans to present remedies for fixing diesel engines at EPA meeting

Tumult in China triggered the worst opening week for US stocks in history, and now investors have to face what analysts expect will be a weak earnings season

Lawyers who organized the case are part of a center that is financially backed by conservative foundations. A decision in the plaintiff's favor could free public sector workers from paying fees if they decline to join un...

The most picked apart moment of the Golden Globes wasn't a moving speech, or an uncomfortable joke -- it was a split-second interaction between Leonardo DiCaprio and Lady Gaga as she walked towards the stage to accept ...

If your sales meetings were not required, would anyone show up?

Lucasfilm Warning: There are spoilers for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens!" below. "The Force Awakens" left us with a lot of questions about Rey and her mysterious past. Who are her parents? Is she really Luke's daughter?...

Mexican authorities just released video footage of the raid that led to the capture of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on January 8.  Produced by Emma Fierberg Follow BI Video: On Facebook  

Samsung Electronics published a mixed set of preliminary results for Q4 2015 on Friday, indicating that its operating profits likely grew by about 15% to 6.1 trillion won ($5 billion) with sales remaining almost flat at ...

The European Commission has decided that 35 multinational corporations will be required to repay $765 million after ruling that a tax break offered by Belgium was illegal. In issuing the decision, the EC did not list the...

The European Union has ordered Belgium to recover some $760 million in illegal tax breaks from 35 multinationals, its latest ruling against the sweet deals many member states offered to some of the world's biggest compan...

Have Apple shares bottomed yet?

Evergrande Real Estate's borrow-and-buy binge continues.

Volkswagen will continue its $900 million expansion of its Chattanooga, Tenn., factory.          

China, other Asian markets fall after Wall Street's decline, uncertainty about Chinese policy

The world's biggest blue star sapphire was recently found in a Sri Lankan mine, weighing an astonishing 1,404 carats.

It is getting chilly out there. UBS credit strategists Stephen Caprio and Matthew Mish put out a note Thursday titled "Non-Bank Liquidity Chilled by Macro Shocks." By "non-bank," the strategists basically mean the bond m...

Sivaram V/Reuters Energy stocks had a monumentally bad year in 2015. The iShares Global energy ETF, which does a decent job at tracking the industry as a whole, was down over 20%. Oil prices tumbled, earnings dried up,...

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REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly suggested that November's terrorist attacks in Paris might never have happened if the US had "listened" to officials who opposed the 2003 invasi...

Vermilion Energy (VET) announced a cash dividend of $0.215 CDN per share payable on February 16, 2016 to all shareholders of record on January 22, 2016. The ex-dividend date for this payment is January 20, 2016.