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Ms. Huffington helped begin the media company, now owned by Verizon, in 2005 and will be focusing on her new venture, Thrive Global.

Russian GDP slumped 0.6% in the second quarter compared to last year, marking 18 months of recession.

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On the one-year anniversary of the big devaluation of the yuan, analysts see a stronger U.S. dollar leading to further gradual depreciation in the yuan.

Campaigns often take a bruising toll on candidate's public image. This one's no different.

The department store operator Macy's, which said it would close 100 stores, jumped 16 percent. Kohl's climbed 15 percent.

Venezuela has oil everywhere but not a drop to sell. How did heavy oil from Venezuela's Orinoco Belt tar sands (plus socialism) sink Venezuela's economy?

In central Ho Chi Minh City, financial hub of the fast-growing Vietnamese economy, 20-somethings with designer hairdos jump out of polished black sedans to pack the coffeehouses on every block and fill restaurants servin...

GlaxoSmithKline and the Verily Life Sciences unit of Alphabet believe they can stand traditional medicine on its head with tiny implantable robots.

Thirty years ago, when I was just starting out as an entrepreneur, the only quality I thought I had in common with other entrepreneurs was that we were all nuts! After all, I was walking away from a perfectly good job as...

New apps and trading platforms are making it easy to start investing with as little as $5, but you should know your options before you get started.

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A combination of two big factors signals that, despite the multiple supply disruptions and the steady decline seen in U.S. production in recent months, the world is still very much oversupplied.

For the first time, investors were the largest buyers of gold for two consecutive quarters Hedge funds and other western investors have been piling into gold this year, pushing investment to a record high and driving the...

The U.S. women's gymnastics team is sporting Olympic uniforms that cost $700 to $1,200 each.

The Bank of Korea kept its base rate unchanged for a second straight month in August as widely expected.

In trading on Thursday, shares of New Jersey Resources Corp (NYSE: NJR) entered into oversold territory, changing hands as low as $34.86 per share. We define oversold territory using the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, ...

US department store chain Macy's is to close about 100 stores and increase investment in its online business after 18 months of sliding sales.

Talk to any manufacturing executive and odds are they have heard of Industry 4.0.

South Africa regains the title of Africa's 'largest economy' from Nigeria, according to IMF data.

I’m not the only free trader who is having second thoughts. Stephen Roach, formerly chief economist at Morgan Stanley, wrote: