Latest and Breaking Business News and Top Stories - July 3
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Nine states are challenging the Obama administration over its “burdensome” proposal to slash global warming emissions from existing U.S. power plants. The states, all rich in fossil fuels, recently joined a lawsuit filed by coal mining c...
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Fourth of July gasoline prices will be the highest in six years, but that’s not keeping drivers off the road.
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Tim Howard earned his position as the Secretary of Defense, but the U.S. goalie needs to capitalize on his fame now before his short window full of opportunities passes him by.
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On this Independence Day it’s worth hearing how the American Longrifle helped win the battle for American freedom. If you don’t know this rifle’s starring role in American history you can’t understand America’s link to the gun or why so ...
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BlackBerry has agreed to sell its German-based research and development assets to a subsidiary of Volkswagen that deals with how modern cars interact with the driver and the world around them.
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The World Cup quarterfinals are set to start tomorrow when old rivals France and Germany face off at 12 pm ET, and we could be in for an offensive showdown. But it's not just that battle of two old European powers that should have fans l...
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Cause met commerce at the Cannabis Business Summit.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average - a US stock index made up of some of the biggest global firms - hits 17,000 for the first time.
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The blue-chip index finally broke above 17,000, but market strategists say another milestone has more significance.
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Which companies are best compensating the people who promote their products and services for those turn-around campaigns and late night pitch prep sessions?
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The news channel may have appropriated the most ironic possible logo for a segment on immigration.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The global economy ended the first half on a high as business activity picked up in June, with new orders pouring in at their fastest rate in over three years, a survey showed on Thursday.
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The decision follows protests by thousands of taxi drivers in Europe, who contend that the start-up’s technology does not comply with local rules and that the company evades taxes.
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The decision follows protests by thousands of taxi drivers in Europe, who contend that the start-up’s technology does not comply with local rules and that the company evades taxes.
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This morning’s employment report showed an old-normal, wide-spread increase in payroll employment of 288,000, with nice upward revisions in April and May totaling 29,000 jobs. This raised the average employment gains over the past three ...
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Mr. Draper was the sole winning bidder of the nearly 30,000 Bitcoins auctioned on Friday by the United States Marshals Service, several people close to the auction said on Wednesday.
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Mr. Draper was the sole winning bidder of the nearly 30,000 Bitcoins auctioned on Friday by the United States Marshals Service, several people close to the auction said on Wednesday.
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When rumors started swirling that Amazon planned to unveil its own smartphone, there was an Internet-wide groan, and collective eye-rolling. The consensus seemed to be that the smartphone market is already saturated, and we simply don’t ...
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Most news outlets focused on the Dodd-Frank Act’s regulations that would limit the operations of large financial institutions. There was, however, a part of the Act that many pundits overlooked—an expansion of the SEC’s Whistleblower pro...
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When the market is changing, you don't survive staying the same but how you adapt is just as important.
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The project, to be designed by architects Perkins Eastman, USA, is spread over 35 acres on Gurgaon-Sohna Road.
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A single idea – one that has enjoyed strong support from both political parties in this country – has the potential to help solve the retirement savings crisis, to narrow the income-and-wealth gap, and to lift the growth rate of producti...
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"It's nice. It's a talking point, but it's not what the stock market is about," says Jim Cramer of Dow 17,000.
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The saga of the French Mistral amphibious assault warship which was ordered by Russia years ago, and whose delivery - at least according to Putin - was the reason behind the US record $9 billion DOJ fine of French BNP (which the Russian ...
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Online photo service Shutterfly is reportedly putting itself up for sale. If you're wondering why, check out your mobile app store.
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6 tips to get the retirement funds you deserve.
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Libya’s last two oil export terminals freed from rebel occupation could start shipping crude again within a week, officials said. Rebel leaders agreed to hand over the Es Sider and Ras Lanuf export terminals on Wednesday after reaching a...
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A raft of policy measures introduced last month will help lift inflation and support bank lending but the European Central Bank stands ready to create money in future if required, President Mario Draghi said on Thur...
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The American palate demands more excitement than it used to. For beer, that means the hoppier the better.
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A strong jobs report sends the Dow over 17,000 for the first time andthe S&P 500 to another record.
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Nathan's Famous has its annual hot dog eating contest on July 4th. CNNMoney first wrote about the stock in 2006. It's up 300% since then.
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Was Whitney Wolfe a co-founder of Tinder? I think the answer exposes a different, quieter, but no less punishing form of the sexism that is pervasive in the startup world.
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Nick Hanauer has gone public with another stage of his plan for the US economy. Essentially, raise wages for everyone and she'll be fine. The problem with this is that Hanauer is simply factually wrong in a major example that he uses to ...
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The BBC and The Guardian say that they have received notice of articles that will no longer show up in European online searches, including one about the former Merrill Lynch chief.
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The BBC and The Guardian say that they have received notice of articles that will no longer show up in European online searches, including one about the former Merrill Lynch chief.
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This hedge fund has gone to the dogs. Activist hedge fund Jana Partners said on Thursday that it will ask retailer PetSmart to explore a sale and other means of...
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At least eight universities have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for Clinton to speak on their campuses in the past year.
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Markets reacted to both U.S. jobs data and the ECB's monetary policy decision, with the Dow rising above 17,000.
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It’s not every day in one’s business journalism career that one comes a cropper with a global megastar with 41.6m Twitter followers. Then again, in 27 years of writing for newspapers, I can’t recall a chief executive that I’ve interviewe...
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EVERY so often a company emerges from the herd to be lauded as the embodiment of leading-edge management thinking. Think of Toyota and its lean manufacturing system, say, or GE and Six Sigma excellence. The latest candidate for apotheosi...
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FOR an hour it seemed as if Liquid Telecom’s grand scheme to bring fast internet access to Zambia and other landlocked parts of Africa might be thwarted by a swarm of bees. It had been no small challenge to bring its fibre-optic cable th...
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POISON pills are again being dispensed by corporate America with all the enthusiasm of an exterminator in a rat-infested basement. The metaphorical rodents nowadays are not just hostile bidders—the pests that the poison-pill defence was ...
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VENTURE capitalists do not often shower nine-figure sums on French startups. That alone makes noteworthy the announcement on July 2nd that BlaBlaCar, an eight-year-old ride-sharing company from Paris, had raised $100m. Preqin, a research...
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Enjoying Desigual’s Mediterranean vibe ON HIGH streets and in shopping centres across the globe, Spain’s most successful clothing retailer, Inditex—best known for its Zara outlets—does battle daily against such other multinational fast-f...
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THE situation of Nochi Dankner, one of Israel’s most prominent businessmen, went from bad to worse this week. In December he lost his grip on his heavily indebted business empire, IDB Holding Corporation, when a court approved a rescue p...
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Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of ofTwoMinds blog , The reality is that nothing has been done to address the structural rot at the heart of the U.S. economy. Opinions about the U.S. economy boil down to two views: 1) the recovery ...
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Obamacare advocates in New York have had good reason to celebrate. In contrast to Oregon’s and other state-based exchanges, New York’s exchange rollout was a relatively smooth, successful affair. Indeed by the time open enrollment closed...
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UK Regulators raise questions over the social media giant's experiment that allowed researchers to manipulate users' information.
