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New York City business owners may soon take a hike -- to neighboring towns in New Jersey and Connecticut, where labor costs now look much more attractive, say labor experts. By Jan. 1, New York City will officially hike ...

Leveraging data to drive better decisions is a top priority for most companies. Yet, few companies do this well. A recent survey by TMMData of 800 digital analytics professionals sheds light on the top data-related chall...

Glenn Kelman knows something about steering a company through tumultuous economic times. As chief executive of Seattle-based Redfin, Kelman led the discount real estate brokerage through the extreme boom-and-bust cycles ...

The days of merely visiting a local retail business and purchasing whatever is needed are long gone. To help your retail business grow and thrive, here are seven retail trends in marketing that you need to pay attention ...

Jill Lepore on a book of technology predictions that makes distressing reading at the end of a year that, a golden anniversary ago, looked positively thrilling.

Dear John: Thanks for your column on pizza sizes. Slow day at the office? Along those same lines, however, I found an interesting cocktail practice. If you have to wait for a table at a restaurant and go to the bar for a...

Times have been good for the economy -- but many young Americans are worried about their finances. And they are resolving to do better in 2019. Those are some of the conclusions of a recent study by Principal Financial G...

The way trainers are made and sold is allowing newcomers to break into the market.

Billionaire Mark Cuban bought a $19 million beach house in California a few days before Christmas. The owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team plans to use the six-bedroom home as a vacation get-away, according to ...

Deutsche Bank is strong and its turnaround strategy is bearing fruit, Chairman Paul Achleitner said, ruling out the need for state aid and playing down speculation that the lossmaking German bank should merge.

Planners in southwestern Michigan are trying to keep a passenger train operating between Chicago and Grand Rapids. The Herald-Palladium of St. Joseph reports that the Twin Cities Area Transportation Study …

The Harvard Africa Business Conference received 350 applications to their New Venture Competition. The demographic and industry breakdown is not what you might expect.

Dr. Michael Breus, otherwise known as, "The Sleep Doctor," consults with many top CEO's and entrepreneurs to help them to optimize their sleep and energy. For this article, he provided a number of his top recommendations...

Most of the attention on active vs. passive management concerns the equity market. While the argument for or against equity indexing is rather straightforward, the active versus passive debate gets more complicated when ...

The investment story lines for 2019 will be dominated by indicators pointing to a possible recession and the end of the long bull market in stocks.        

Presidents express willingness to stick to G20 agreement in phone call, says news agency China's president, Xi Jinping, has called for Donald Trump to reach a compromise on trade, as discussions continue in an attempt to...

The former head of MI5 is to step down from the board of HSBC Holdings following his appointment as the new chair of the government's committee on standards in public life.

Dear Liz: I sold my home two years ago and still have not done anything with my gain of $200,000. It's in a one-year certificate of deposit so at least it's earning something while I try to figure out what to do with it....

From space adventure and medical breakthroughs, to seamless travel and sustainable food sources, 2019 promises to be an exciting year for these five companies determined to make an impact on the world.

China is willing to work with the United States to implement the consensus reached during talks between the two countries' leaders in Argentina, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

President Donald Trump was firing Twitter barbs at Democrats this weekend as talks to end a weeklong partial government shutdown remained at a stalemate. Trump was cooped up in the …

For years, Newtown resident Anthony Tucker has been paying between $60-90 a month for water he doesn't feel is safe to drink. To illustrate why, he reaches under his kitchen …