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Rick Owen's taboo-breaking fashion show at the Men's Fashion Week in Paris raises the question whether "free the penis" is the new fashion wave.

Is the company destroying full-time work, entrenching us in part-time purgatory, or empowering America's most independent workers?

While some consumer products companies are removing the chemical, methylisothiazolinone, others are adding it to offerings including mouthwash.

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud has died.

Piperlime's shutdown is just one of the big changes Art Peck has made at the San Francisco-based retailer before he even takes over as CEO. Today Gap Inc. reported it is shutting down its Piperlime business, the retailer...

Moves this week by Finra and the SEC signal watchdogs are ready to pounce on anyone overcharging clients.

Peet's Coffee & Tea plans to open its 17th area store Monday in the historic Wrigley Building and sees potential to double its number of locations in Chicago's already crowded coffee shop market over the next few years.

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Key U.S. ally, OPEC force had been hospitalized with pneumonia since December.          

Box's market value stands at $1.7 billion, based on its IPO pricing.          

Different strategies for different bosses.

Cook got a hefty cash bonus that brought his total compensation to $9.2 million last year.

The decline of oil prices to less than $50 a barrel has an undeniably positive effect on the global economy. From the U.S. to China, people are driving more and spending more, a much needed economic boost in generally gl...

Express Scripts Holding Co. (NASDAQ:ESRX) is now eyeing the $37 billion US cancer market, after the company forced drug makers to reduce the the cost of Hepatitis C drugs and leading to current and future savings of bill...

In October, the United Kingdom's Sunday Times reported that Jaguar Land Rover, which is owned by the Indian car maker Tata Motors, has been "talking to several southern states, including…

Average and minimum salaries, as well as the top-paid player for the four major U.S. sports leagues.

Continuing the health insurance industry’s march further away from fee-for-service medicine, UnitedHealth Group (UNH) executives said this week they will increase value-based payments to doctors and hospitals by 20 per...

One of the scrappiest startups founded by someone younger than 30.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (TheStreet) -- Consumer spending was supposed to halt the slowdown in China's economy, but so far that hasn't happened. Chinese consumers, rather than spending freely with their growing wealth, are actuall...

California, with its booming wealth and population, has always been a fertile place to grow a bank -- as in 1904 when Amadeo Giannini founded Bank of America, then called Bank of Italy, to serve immigrant dockworkers.

Before spending $5.4 billion to buy City National, the Los Angeles "bank to the stars," Royal Bank of Canada Chief Executive Dave McKay wanted to see firsthand what he would be getting.

Uber has faced mounting criticism over its policies and tactics, but its workforce has continued to grow, and its drivers are making an average of $6 an hour more than professional taxi drivers and chauffeurs, according ...