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Thomson Reuters The blockchain revolution is coming… And it’s going to fundamentally change how businesses operate. Make no mistake… this revolution isat leastas significant as the one brought about by the Internet...

In the rise of computer-driven trading, some hear echoes of the stock market's 1987 crash. Beware the feedback loop.

With the VIX skidding lower, shorting the fear gauge seems like a sure thing. As market history shows, that's an unsettling prospect.

There's a reason why Burt's Bees has become the No. 2 lip-balm brand in the US -- and it has to do with meteorological savvy. Burt's Bees' owner Clorox discovered that sales of the beeswax balm tick up when the wind blow...

Jason De León, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan, won the prestigious prize.

Thomson Reuters Nelson Peltz has been thwarted in the largest proxy battle in history, failing to claim a seat on the board of the $236 billion giant Procter & Gamble. Preliminary results on Tuesday showed that Peltz, th...

What enchants painter Rachel Lussier about the Bethlehem Steel's old blast furnaces is the "beautiful decay" -- the warm rust colors and, when the sunlight is just right, iridescent grays …

Circuit breakers that halt trading during market routs were born out of the stock market's worst days--as was the SEC itself.

Luxury electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc fired about 400 employees this week, including associates, team leaders and supervisors, a former employee told Reuters on Friday. The dismissals were a result of a company-wide an...

Amazon Amazonis practically synonymous with online retail. A growing majority of Americans start their online shopping searches at Amazon.com. It recently made a big expansion into the brick-and-mortar world with the pur...

Shutterstock If you think running a marathon is the quickest ticket to a rock-hard body, I-Min Lee, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, has news for you: That classic feat isn't as good for your body as it...

The best way to make your accounts more secure is to require proof in addition to — or better yet, instead of — your password.        

Go ahead, tax the rich, they can afford it. That's the message from a new International Monetary Fund report that also finds inequality hampers long-run economic growth. The analysisdetails just how much less progressive...

Thomson Reuters BUCHAREST, Romania — Last winter, in the middle of anti-corruption demonstrations, a television broadcaster accused George Soros —the Hungarian-born, Jewish-American billionaire philanthropist —of p...

We often notice patterns that aren't really there

An exclusive Q&A with Pat LaFrieda, America's most famous butcher who dry ages steaks for Eleven Madison Park and makes burgers for Shake Shack. He talks about how he's built his family meat purveyor into a $200 million ...

The firm's board of directors could be held accountable for allowing its chairman's alleged sexual misconduct to continue.

Trumpannounced Thursday an end to Obamacare's payments to insurance companies, which helped lower insurance costs for poor Americans. Many healthcare industry stocks took a dive in trading Friday. Trump celebrated the pl...

Four Wall Street vets recall one of the most harrowing days in Wall Street history--and share lessons learned from the October 1987 crash.

An arms race is escalating in the retail sector -- and the weapons of choice are store-owned labels. Sales of private brands at big chains like Walmart, BJ's, Dollar General and Target grew 4.6 percent last year compared...

GM and Canada’s autoworker union on Friday reached a deal that will likely end a 26-day strike at a factory in Ontario that makes a hot-selling SUV.        

National Hurricane Center Hurricane Ophelia, which on Friday was a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of 100 mph, is headed towards Europe. If that news made you stop in surprise, you're not alone. It might sound absu...