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U.S. stock indexes edged higher in early trading Thursday, led by gains in technology companies. Big retail chains and other consumer-focused stocks were also among the gainers. Healthcare companies were among the laggar...

Continued growth in U.S. oil output underpins the views that U.S. producers remain resilient amid low prices.

Freddie Laker saw it coming A DECADES-old dream of many low-cost carriers (LCCs), to break into the market for long-haul flights, has also been a long-standing nightmare for executives at full-service airlines, who earn ...

A security researcher says a lapse has exposed data from millions of Verizon customers, leaking names, addresses and personal identification numbers, or PINs. Verizon Wireless says 6 million customers were affected, but ...

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is set to head to Rhode Island for meetings with other governors on healthcare, cyber security and other issues. McAuliffe is attending the National Governors Association …

The Macroeconomic Perspective Gold and Silver are assets which have been of great importance for thousands of years. Up until a few decades ago, gold was explicitly linked to currencies (such as the US$) and was broadly ...

A new government analysis of President Donald Trump's budget plan says it wouldn't come close to balancing the federal ledger like the White House has promised. The Congressional Budget Office …

How does a business pivot from being a small talent recruitment agency to generating $10 million per year as a sales technology company? Manny Medina, CEO and Co-Founder of Outreach did just that and this is the story of...

Your favorite restaurant could be going cash free, and getting $10,000 from Visa to do it. It's all part of Visa's "war on cash."

Floyd Mayweather is headed for another mega-payday, which could push his career earnings to $1 billion. Ten-figures is rarefied air for sports stars with only Michael Jordan ($1.5 billion) and Tiger Woods ($1.4 billion) ...

Bank of the Ozarks recently dissolved its holding company in a move that goes against modern banking strategy. There are, however, strong arguments for other institutions to follow the bank's lead.

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Poland said Thursday it was glad it will have a chance to defend its logging in the ancient Bialowieza forest before a European Union court and implied that it knows …

Learning about the most common reasons businesses fail can help your company thrive.

HSBC, one of the biggest banks in the world, won a major victory on Wednesday when a New York federal appeals court reversed a lower court's decision to release a potentially damaging report detailing the bank's money-la...

The latest punches in the battle between billionaires Paul Singer and Warren Buffett played out in a bankruptcy court on Wednesday. Lawyers for Singer's Elliott Management told a judge that the hedge fund was blocked fro...

As sales lag in North America, executives are pushing for concessions from China, where total screens may soon top 80,000 -- double the number in the United States.

If you're doing insider trading, you might want to avoid searching Google to brush up your technique. A research scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology was arrested on Wednesday on insider-trading charges, wi...

A Q&A with Marcelo Claure, who reveals how he's maintained a startup culture at the wireless giant.

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Virgin CEO Richard Branson Shares His Trick To "Getting Things Done". He sums it up in "5 Simple Words."

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