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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stock and options markets will be closed on Monday, and possibly Tuesday, as regulators, exchanges and brokers worry about the integrity of markets and the safety of employees in the face of Hur...

Stock trading has been cancelled with the closure of markets to protect employees from oncoming storm US stock and options markets will be closed on Monday, and possibly Tuesday, as regulators, exchanges and brokers worr...

The village encouraged to invest in its local wind farm

Barclays 'being very coy' about identifying staff involved in fixing scandal, says Mr Justice Flaux Former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond and other bosses there could be hauled before the high court to explain what...

Retailers, eager to capitalize on the growing confidence of consumers, aren’t shy about starting their holiday advertising early.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street firms were set to open with limited staffing in New York City on Tuesday as stock markets remained closed due to Hurricane Sandy's approach and many New York-based bank employees worked f...

Scott Forstall, senior vice president of iPhone Software at Apple, is out. Forstall, who CNBC.com reported was widely believed to be the successor to CEO Tim Cook, will leave Apple next year.

Oliver Kroll is managing partner and director of operations for the Gerber Group, an international bar management company. Flying has lost its luster, he says, and then there is passenger behavior.

While New York’s financial markets close Monday and Tuesday, disaster plans years in the making should mean systems are up and running again soon after the hurricane has passed.

Will we continue to over-hunt, over-fish our customers, consumers, and our market -- our prey -- until they're either extinct or just too savvy to fall for our seductive calls? What is our responsibility to the health, h...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Pearson and Germany's Bertelsmann plan to merge their publishers Penguin and Random House, aiming to gain the upper hand in their relationship with Amazon and Apple, the leaders in the ebook ...

A senior Downing Street aide is to reignite the row over the payday lending sector by taking a job at Wonga, Sky News learns.

Letting taxpayers fund parties directly could revive our rotten system – and at £1 per elector, it would be cheaper too It's a revolting spectacle: the two presidential candidates engaged in a frantic and de...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc said on Monday its head of iPhone software and its head of retail would leave, the biggest shake-up in the technology company's executive ranks since Tim Cook became chief executive la...

Microsoft is incorporating advanced computing technologies into many of its products, allowing users to comb huge amounts of data and get recommendations based on their habits.

I walked into the Times Center sitting near the front wearing my best suit, tie and shirt beaming with pride. I was about to witness the final round of the National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge, a competition for our...

As the government has chosen not to attack high unemployment with a second stimulus, some have speculated that Hurricane Sandy might give the economy a...

Russian gas monopoly Gazprom invests £24bn to develop East Siberian gas field and build pipeline to Vladivostok Russia's Gazprom has pledged more than $38bn (£23.7bn) to develop an East Siberian gas field and build...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Retailers preparing for the worst of Hurricane Sandy as it hit the East Coast on Monday looked back to only a year ago to Hurricane Irene for a blueprint.

A firm of architects, is developing proposals whereby Stansted airport could be linked to Heathrow by high speed rail Heathrow airport has warned that proposals to create a "dual hub" by twinning it with London Stansted ...

Andrew Haldane said protestors were correct to focus on inequality as the chief reason for 2008 economic crash The Occupy Movement has found an unlikely ally in a senior Bank of England official, Andrew Haldane, who has ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several justices on the U.S. Supreme Court voiced concern on Monday about letting U.S. copyright holders block the resale inside the country of products they make elsewhere, in one of the court's b...