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Reuters Sears is bleeding cash. The company's cash and equivalents have fallen to $276 million from $1.8 billion one year ago, Sears said Thursday. The company's sales have been falling for years and it has been shutti...

Reuters The American consumer has been a central driver of the global economy for decades. Fortunately for the overburdened American consumer, China’s middle class is going to be picking up more of the slack. China’s...

Brian Ach/Getty Images for TechCrunch Sam Altman, the Silicon Valley investor behind the venture-capital firm Y Combinator, has some thoughts about Donald Trump's tax returns. Tweeting from his personal account on Saturd...

AP Photo It’s rare for a woman to make it to the very top of a large corporation these days, and it’s rare for an adult human to have blond hair. But blond women are far more likely to end up a chief executive or U.S...

GUEST: Apparently, viewers are hyped on vikings, race cars, and mobile militaries With no console games charting, mobile brands dominate the leaderboard, featuring familiar names like Supercell, Machine Zone and King. Ou...

Some of the claims of the immediate economic consequences of voting leave have been unfounded, but it is too early to declare peace Do you remember Y2K? The millennium bug? For the benefit of younger readers, fears grew ...

Venezuela has been hit by the 24 months collapse in oil prices.          

GUEST: In September 2013, I sold my second startup, automated lead-generation platform Marketfish, and found myself with the free time to pursue one of my great passions on the side of my professional pursuits: standup c...

Even paying patient EpiPen copayments isn't blunting Mylan Pharmaceuticals 400% price increase for the live-saving auto-injection treatment for allergy sufferers.

Question: Our homeowners association is going on our third manager and management company in four years -- an experience that has wasted countless hours and money. The work we need to be done gets hijacked by managers wh...

Reuters Calls to reform police departments have echoed across the country with renewed energy in recent years, as cities from New York and Chicago to Baltimore and Milwaukee face increasing pressure to police less aggre...

Not many people break $1 million in a one-person business. Laszlo Nadler, whose startup appeared in this blog last year, blasted through that milestone in 2015. This year, the father-of-two, based in East Brunswick, N.J....

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REUTERS/Toru Hanai No central bank of a developed country equals the Bank of Japan in trying to manipulate the stock market up by buying equities. The BOJ has done this for years. With breath-taking ineffectiveness. So o...

Business owners who work at home are often misunderstood. As someone who has run a successful home business for 10 years, I'm here to set the record straight.

REUTERS/Victor Fraile There’s trouble brewing in the Great White North. Jared Dillian, former Lehman Brothers trader and noted financial writer, says that low oil prices have hurt the Canadian economy and the real esta...

This year's autumn statement, the new chancellor's first, is a very big deal indeed Autumn statements come and go. Like comets, they blaze across the political sky for a couple of weeks in November and December before di...

City officials and a local Realtor still hope to fill a city-owned, 173-acre industrial park that has been vacant for the last seven years. …

Several companies, citing financial losses, stop offering plans, which may leave some markets with only one insurer.

More than a month after it was acquired by Pinterest, Math Camp announced in emails to users that it is shutting down its photo sharing apps Shorts and Roll at 12:01 a.m. on August 30. The company advises that you should...

The British Press is calling its latest sex scandal “Lloyd’s Bonk”. The nation’s largest retail bank, still partly owned by the UK government has been caught with its trousers down. Or, rather, the man in charge ...

It was Eataly's Nutella Bar where I first met Samantha Rose, the founder of GIR. Amidst the crowds, we stood at a counter and chatted over coffee...