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Contract signings to buy homes dropped 2.2 percent in December to lowest level since the middle of 2014

A Rhode Island business is closing permanently and the owner is blaming the weeklong natural gas outage that affected the Newport area. Tim Johnson says he had to close his …

A new study at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine finds massive losses with single-digit pay gaps.

Hours after reports of a data-collection research app involving teens, Facebook says it will be discontinuing the app on the iOS platforn.

How Bitcoin can regain its price momentum.

The fruit juices your child and you drink may have elevated levels of arsenic, lead or cadmium, according to a new Consumer Reports study.        

Today, J.Crew and Madewell are launching their first round of Fair Trade Certified™ products, indicating that even the big brands are beginning to think more deeply about their production process.

Lawyers are preparing to make their cases to a federal court for and against the constitutionality of an Ohio law prohibiting doctors from performing abortions based on a fetal diagnosis …

CDK Global, a company that manages car dealer Web sites, is expected to make a takeover offer next week for Cars.com, two sources close to the process said. That would put new CDK Chief Executive Brian Krzanich back in t...

U.S. stock futures and Asian equities eked out modest gains on Wednesday as investors seized on Apple Inc's earnings and comments from its chief that U.S.-China trade tensions were easing, sending the iPhone maker's shar...

The administration's growth forecasts are much rosier than independent analysts', reflecting the president's faith in his tax and trade policies to fundamentally improve the economy.

The Dow and other stock indexes closed higher after the Federal reserve signaled patience on future interest rate hikes.        

Oakley paired up with a current McDonald's worker to act as her mentor.

Omer Kiyani has been a safety engineer for his whole career. Building a better gun lock shouldn't be that difficult, he reasoned.

Oil prices rose more than 1 percent on Wednesday, boosted by concerns about supply disruptions following U.S. sanctions on Venezuela's oil industry but pegged back by uncertainty over the global economy.

AT&T Inc. on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter net income of $4.86 billion. The Dallas-based company said it had net income of 66 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 86 cents per share....

Sweden's unemployment agency is to shed a third of its staff as part of a cost-cutting measure to meet the demand of lawmakers. The Public Employment Service said around 4,500 …

Strong results from Boeing and Apple are helping send stocks higher in early trading on Wall Street, putting the market on track to rise after two days of losses. Apple rose 4.8% after reporting results that weren't as b...

There's reason to expect the downward pressure on capital expenditures to continue.

Strong results from Boeing and Apple are helping send stocks higher in early trading on Wall Street, putting the market on track to rise after two days of losses.

Foxconn says it's too expensive to manufacture LCD screens in the U.S., so it may add more R&D jobs at a new Wisconsin plant than manufacturing jobs.

Former Irish TV and stage actress Lise-Ann McLaughlin shares her five steps to personal growth, leadership and self-confidence.