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Earlier today North Korea warned foreign nations with personnel in the country to consider evacuating their embassies. On the face of it this would be a signal that hostilities might break out soon, but analysts are sayi...

One day after Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) signed a comprehensive gun control package into law, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) invited all gun owners and...

While prices may change in either direction, the risks to the borrower are not symmetrical. Borrowers waiting to lock will always pay more if the price has risen but they won't necessarily pay less if the price has decli...

The U.S. economy added just 88,000 jobs in March, a sharp drop from the average 221,000 created in the previous four months. At the same time, the unemployment rate fell to 7.6 percent from 7.7 percent in February.

Achieving the knowledge it takes to become a Renaissance man or woman is difficult these days, as people change jobs frequently. In fact, workers switch firms roughly every five years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics repo...

Jeffrey Skilling, who has served over 6 years for fraud, in talks to get 24-year sentence reduced.

World champion Jorge Lorenzo may have thought new teammate Valentino Rossi would be his biggest threat of the new MotoGP season, but a surprise name will be at the head of the grid for Saturday's revamped final qualifyin...

If climate models are correct, then Hurricane Sandy, and the flooding it brought, gave us a gentle preview of the not-so-distant future. A recent NASA study found that between 1992 and 2012, global sea levels rose, on av...

The U.S. economy added just 88,000 jobs in March, a sharp drop from the average 221,000 created in the previous four months. At the same time, the unemployment rate fell...

What does this mean for marketers and their advertising budgets? Facebook believes what's good for Facebook users is good for marketers.

Want to be a star company? Focus on great employee outplacement services.

I wonder what Milton Friedman would say today if he saw CEOs talking about "conscious capitalism" or "capitalism 2.0?"

What is it like to work as a floor trader at the New York Stock Exchange? We caught up with Kenny Polcari, director of NYSE Floor Operations at O'Neil Securities, and a CNBC contributor, who walked us through a regular w...

28% limit not a 'helpful' policy for jobs or growth.

A federal judge on Friday struck down an effort to form a class action lawsuit to go after Apple, Google and five other technology companies for allegedly forming an illegal...

Stocks fell on Wall Street Friday after the government reported that U.S. employers added the fewest jobs in nine months in March. More people also gave up looking for work. The number of jobs grew at about half the pace...

MF Global's parent company has won court approval for its liquidation plan.

U.S. stocks fall Friday after the monthly employment report found the economy added far fewer jobs than forecast in March, clarifying the view of an economic soft patch.

Despite threats of Armageddon from defense contractors and the Pentagon, sequestration hasn't slowed down the industry at all. While major companies like General Dynamics and Lockheed initially showed losses back in Febr...

The BLS CPS report says there were 21,492,000 veterans alive in March, down from 21,520,000 in February, a loss of 28,000 veterans in March. There were 11,011,000 veterans in the workforce in March, down 103,000 from the...

Despite negative public sentiment and the rise of the Occupy movement, the avarice on Wall Street arrogantly continues on. The big banks are now even bigger and more powerful than they were in 2008 when they were bailed ...

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