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Despite enjoying a commanding lead over rivals in the 4G LTE deployment arena, Verizon isn't letting off the gas pedal anytime soon. The largest wireless carrier in the U.S. recently added six new markets to its ever gro...

Shares of Ford Motors have rallied more than 20% in the past three months on the back of solid North American operations, some improvement in Europe and surging sales in China. Ford's Chinese sales have surged 49% throug...

Sir Mervyn King has called for "common sense" in the debate over austerity as London's FTSE 100 gives up its early gains.

Britain's blue-chips closed out the week on a downbeat note as investors continued to sell equities on both sides of the Atlantic ahead of two bank holidays in Britain and America.

We all like to think we're smart and self-sufficient. A lot of folks believe they can manage their financial lives by themselves. These do-it-yourselfers are woefully wrong.

A move by regulators that put the biggest bank merger of 2012 on ice is sending a chill through midsize financial institutions.

The markets are aware that too much free or nearly free money is going to cause trouble. Japan's equity indices saw it first-hand this week when their main stock market fell -7.9% in one session. All one has to do is loo...

European markets are up in early trading following a volatile session in Japan which saw the swing widely a day after suffering the worst one-day points drop in 13 years.

NYSE Euronext will spin off European stock exchange group Euronext via an initial public offering rather than sell it following its merger with InterContinentalExchange (ICE), according to reports.

Asia's emerging economies are piling on debt to fuel growth, in stark contrast to the scaling back of private debt in the U.S. and Europe.

Rules to curb violent stock swings are getting praise from some. But their slow introduction couldn't stop American Electric Power's 54% slide.

The fact that Caterpillar's North American shipments of its machines to dealers fell 18% in April bodes poorly for Friday's report of April U.S. durable-goods figures. But the picture isn't so dire.