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That sharks represent a risk to swimmers and surfers isn't news to beachgoers. But these predators are not actually looking to feed on humans. To better understand why a tiny number of sharks do sometimes bite people, we...

President Donald Trump took the time to trumpet Friday's jobs report numbers on Twitter. Trump calledthe addition of 209,000 workers in July "Excellent Jobs Numbers" and said the job gains were only beginning, claimingde...

Business Insider/Hayley Peterson Retail giants likeTarget, Lowe's, and Home Depot are fighting to pay less taxes. When they win, schools end up losing billions of dollars, Edweek reported. In what is often described as a...

Of all the big banks, it's probably fair to say Barclays has had its fair share of bad publicity, says Matthew Partridge. The post Barclays: not cheerful, but cheap was first published on MoneyWeek.

The Environmental Protection Agency will reject a proposed overhaul of the US biofuels program that would have shifted blending responsibility away from refining companies further down the fuel supply chain, three source...

Billionaire Edward Lampert has raised his stake in the catalog apparel retailer to nearly 65% from 59%.

The controversial visa program grants green cards to wealthy foreigners in exchange for a $500,000 investment in U.S. jobs

Paramount Pictures/Youtube US non-farm payrolls, arguably the most important economic report around the world each and every month, will be released on Friday. However, rather than the level of payrolls growth or movemen...

Wall Street sure has a funny way of protecting its customers. Americans were hit with about $15 billion in overdraft protection and other fees, according to new data from the government's consumer financial watchdog. Tha...

AP/Kathy Willens Investors in red-hot tech companies are heavily exposed to political risk, and they may not even realize it. After all, one of the main selling points for tech stocks last year was how disconnected they ...

Three pointers to keep in mind as you embark on your innovation journey.

Getty/Michael Kovac Google floated an offer of at least $30 billion to buy Snap in early 2016, sources told Business Insider. Three people, including people inside and close to the company, separately confirmed they had ...

Economists estimate the Labor Department on Friday will report 180,000 job gains for July.        

BI Intelligence This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Payments Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Square's Q2 2017earningsexceeded analystexpectations and broke its own records,...

The dollar gained sharply on Friday after the July jobs report showed that hiring in the US was stronger than forecast. The dollar index, which measures the greenbackagainst a basket of other G-1o currencies, is up 0.91%...

Bill Ackman's re-kindled lust for paycheck processor ADP is now out in the open. The activist investor behind Pershing Square is looking to oust the CEO of the underperforming Automatic Data Processing as well as snag fi...

Oracle founder and chairman Larry Ellison offers a classic example of his unique brand of intellectual contrarianism in explaining to financial analysts of how it would be *good* for Oracle if its CapEx doubled due to da...

Apple/Screenshot Apple Pay, Apple's mobile wallet that allows users to pay at stores and online with their smartphone, launched in 2014 to a lot of fanfare. The next year, Google and Samsung matched Apple with their own ...

President Trump applauded Toyota and Mazda's plan to set up the joint venture in the U.S. and create up to 4,000 jobs.        

With Amazon, anything seems possible -- see what the experts have to say.

Considering Tesla's recent Model 3 handover party, it's not all thatsurprising that the focus of Wednesday's earnings call was production for the company's first mass-market sedan. Still, it was also the first earnings r...

David Perlman is finally retiring from the San Francisco Chronicle. A toast to David Perlman: A journalist and colleague extraordinaire retires via @sfchronicle -- joegarofoli (@joegarofoli) August 3, 2017 As the paper...