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The agency said Wednesday it has received more than 500,000 comments on the proposal — and many more may be filed in the coming days.

Thomson Reuters Factory orders unexpectedly rose by 0.2% in August month-over-month, according to a report from the Commerce Department on Wednesday. Meanwhile, economists had forecast that factory orders fell by 0.2%, ...

Since the fake accounts scandal erupted in September, Wells Fargo's stock has been a much bigger loser than rivals.

SAN FRANCISCO (By Joseph Menn, Reuters) – Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials,...

Gregory Daco, chief US economist at Oxford Economics lays out how Donald Trump's proposal to deport millions of undocumented immigrants could have adverse effects on the US economy. Produced by Arielle Berger and Lamar S...

Wells Fargo Chief Executive John Stumpf may get a third grilling by lawmakers over the fake account scandal that continues to embroil the San Francisco bank.

via We Are The Mighty The martial tradition, training, and dominating warrior spirit of Gurkhas means they will do things in a fight that wouldn’t occur to even the most seasoned combat veterans. Gurkhas will fight ou...

Bobby Hoyt I was basically the picture of an average millennial fresh out of college. I hadn't really been taught anything about personal finance, had a shiny degree, and held almost $40,000 of student loan debt that I h...

U.S. stocks look to rebound after a slow start to the final quarter of 2016.          

The big-box giant has a big idea to crack the online grocery puzzle. (It's not delivery.)

(Reuters) - U.S. seeds and agrochemicals company Monsanto Co , which agreed last month to be bought by Germany's Bayer AG for $66 billion, reported a surprise adjusted profit, helped by a drop in expenses and higher corn...

laszlo-photo / Creative Commons Despite the frequency with which people fly these days, flight attendants' jobs are still, surprisingly, shrouded in a fair amount of mystery. In fact, we know so little about what they do...

© AFP/File Johannes Eisele Early visitor numbers to mainland China’s first Disneyland in Shanghai have been disappointing, according to experts, proving even the “happiest place on earth” isn’t immune to the whi...

A close look at a Nobel Prize winner's valuation metric shows that the market isn't as highly valued as it appears.

The billionaire entrepreneur isn't the first to talk about building hotels beyond Earth's atmosphere--but his vision comes with a distinctly Virgin flair.

Christopher Payne Massive mental hospitals, some of which once housed hundreds of thousands of patients, were the primary mode of treatment for those with mental illnesses for centuries. But by the 1960s, asylums all ove...

New project leader Dolgov tells USA TODAY autonomous tech is all about the road time, not the PR.          

YouTube/Stanford Published below is the full text of a commencement speech former Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave at Stanford University in 2005. It's a well-known speech, and one of Jobs' most notable public appearances. It's...

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Small businesses are the lifeblood of the economy, creating countless jobs and driving innovation. However, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, for the first time since the agency began tracking small businesses thirty ...

Hedge fund Elliott Management is pressing for Samsung Electronics, the maker of the Galaxy Note smartphone, to list its shares on the Nasdaq.

REUTERS/Stringer "Investors don't seem to have much faith in Apple's future," UBS analysts Steven Milunovich and Benjamin Wilson wrote in a note distributed to clients on Wednesday. Simply put, only 11% of Apple's market...