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Despite challenges, consumer-staples companies continue to generate lots of cash, which supports dividends.

New rules from Washington have prompted a wave of innovation. Here's how to sort through changes.

The venerable cash-register company is a rising software star. The stock could gain 30%.

U.S. hedge funds are making a bundle betting against Canadian shares. Call it The Great White Short.

Stubbornly low inflation, falling oil and iron-ore prices, lack of volatility, and rising wages could all point to trouble ahead for U.S. stocks.

How much are the wealthiest people in each state making? More than ever, a new report from Forbes found. Most of the people on the list were on it last year -- and collectively, they're worth $682 billion more than last ...

Cloud computing is becoming mainstream. In the near future, it will be less and less meaningful to investors.

Airbnb/The German Schmear House If you're an avid fan of HGTV's "Fixer Upper," a trip to Waco, Texas, should be onyour radar. Joanna and Chip Gaines have been fixing up dilapidated homes in Waco on their TV show since No...

A deep and prolonged economic contraction has placed prime real estate on fire sale in Greece, creating good opportunities for bargain hunters. But they may not last too long.

The Trump administration has authorized the sale of unarmed surveillance drones to India, the manufacturer said Friday, as the two nations' leaders prepare for their first face-to-face meeting. India initiated …

House Democrats aren’t buying Deutsche Bank’s argument that they have no right to information about Donald Trump multi-million-dollar loans from the institution. And they’ve fired off a letter saying so. Democrats ...

Costco's Richard Galanti, Microsoft's Amy Hood, JPMorgan's Marianne Lake, and Alphabet's Ruth Porat.

You may not have heard of Asian-American dance-rock band, The Slants, but you may soon be very aware of a troubling precedent set after they won a contentious legal victory in the US Supreme Court. Founder and bass playe...

The unemployment rate is at a 16-year low. Will immigrants still be accused of "taking jobs" from Americans?

Since the oil-price free fall in 2015, MLPs have improved finances, bolstered balance sheets, and cut costs. But don't bet the farm either.

In 2000, a bizarre and controversial film called "Battle Royale" was released. In the film, dozens of Japanese high-school students are placed on an island, given weapons, and forced to kill one another until one person ...

Todd Korol/Reuters Turns outhousing may be affordable, at least by one measure. While home prices have been climbing in Toronto and Vancouver, people that didn’t buy into the madness seem just fine. The Bank of Canada ...

Wikimedia Commons Goldman Sachs launched Marcus, an online lending business for customers seeking loans of $30,000 or less, in October 2016. It was a departure from what Goldman Sachs is best known for, namely, wealth ma...

CNN wants to turn its social video content experimentGreat Big Storyinto astealth cable network — without the cable TV part that is. The company is pumping $40 million of fresh capital into GBS, the web-video venture C...

Tulane University says a $2 million gift is bringing a European energy law scholar to New Orleans, where he will become founding director of a new Tulane Center for Energy …

It’s a bold vision: 50,000 new American jobs to be created by a series of investments from Softbank Capital. And with the investments coming from a $100 billion fund, that jobs number feels like a sure thing. What’s ...

Organizations that build high performance leaders and teams focused on inclusion and the power of individuality grow and share more, evolve faster, and make their organizations healthy again. Amazon proves this point and...