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TAQA to buy 51% stake, with Canadian pension fund purchasing 39% and IDFC Alternatives taking remaining 10%

This weekend we wrote a long post about why inflation might come back. But it's kinda long. So if you don't to read it, here's something via UBS (which is predicting above-consensus inflation) that will take you like 2 s...

Some of the best-paid workers in the U.S. are actually quite miserable in their jobs. While it's true that happiness at work usually increases with salary, that trend doesn't always hold. Lawyers, for example, make an av...

Next week I'll post some economic questions for 2014, but first here is a review of my Ten Economic Questions for 2013. After posting the list, I followed up with a discussion of each question. The goal was to provide ...

There will come a day when the Internet tires of the GIF. 2013 was not that day. From Tom Brady getting rejected to Erin Andrews get videobombed to Chris Bosh eating confetti, it was another banner year for the sports GI...

Green Bay Matt Flynn narrowly avoided a brutal hit in the second quarter against the Pittsburgh Steelers today. Linebacker Lawrence Timmons launched himself like a missile and Flynn barely gets ducked below the crown of ...

Here is a chance to win a new garnet red Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone from AT&T.

As monumental a year as 2013 was, 2014 promises even more. Here is a run-down of predictions for the evolution of mobile commerce and payments in 2014.

Your emergency fund needs to have 6 months of living costs along with any EMI that you have to pay

Here's a nugget from Dan Greenhaus of BTIG (@danBTIG): Needless to say, with earnings season behind us, the first Fed taper decision made and Washington -- budget in hand -- gone for the year, the remaining trading days ...

Leaders of a Central Texas county have blamed hackers on an international calling spree for a phone bill that's at least $27,000 higher than usual.

Beer giants compete for Mexican consumers, as CNN's Nick Parker reports.

The Pentagon's top civilian says it's time to tame burgeoning military personnel costs, but he's facing a test of wills with the nation's powerful veterans groups, which want no cut in their benefits.

Sara Pasquinelli doesn't shop at the grocery store much anymore. The busy mother of two young boys buys nearly all her food from a new online service that delivers to her front door — but it doesn't bring just any food...

An overwhelming majority of voters are opposed to cutting off extended jobless benefits for the unemployed, a poll revealed on Monday. The left-leaning Public Policy Polling surveyed voters in four key congressional dist...

Spot gold eases 0.1% to $1,201.25 an ounce after its biggest weekly loss in a month

You?ve heard about disruptive new businesses popping up across the country. Well known examples of the sharing economy?Airbnb, Lyft, and TaskRabbit?are taking center stage and challenging business as usual.

This past week, Russian president Vladimir Putin freed several high-profile prisoners: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oil magnate who spent 10 years behind bars, and two Pussy Riot girls, Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnik...

Silicon Valley is in high demand these days, even in the happiest place on earth.

Against the backdrop of rising income inequality and associated social ills, there's the conundrum of Americans' contradicting values regarding wealth.

Most anyone that has been in business for more than a couple years is familiar with Stephen Covey's "Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People" and specifically the habit called "Sharpening the Saw".  This basically refer...

In the distant past, when it came to retirement plan options, the self-employed or members of a partnership were at a distinct disadvantage relative to corporations. Although over time, those restrictions have been remov...