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Fed Chair Janet Yellen lost "patient" from her FOMC statement on Wednesday, but not her patience for growth in the economy. But American savers have lost their patience getting zero...

Denver-based Frontier Airlines is continuing to follow in the footsteps of Spirit Airlines, the Florida-based carrier and pacesetter when it comes to passenger fees.

THE details may vary. Americans sling their business cards casually across a table; the Japanese make the exchange of cards as elaborate as a tea ceremony. Some cards are discreet. Guangbiao Chen, a Chinese tycoon, crams...

In the late nineties, even before Google's executives publicly pledged not to be evil, they were positioning their company's search engine as a meritocratic alternative to the main options at the time. Other search tools...

This story was originally published by 24/7 Wall St. Worldwide military expenditure shrunk in 2013 for the second consecutive year, falling by 1.9% to $1.75 trillion. The 100 largest arms-producers sold a combined $402 b...

Low fees and limits on free cash withdrawals render the non-bank ATMs business model unviable

As the heroin epidemic has grown in Massachusetts, so has the number of addicts with deep pockets looking to kick their habit.

Mars One, the company planning to send people on a one-way trip to Mars, has been battered with criticism in the past couple months. The most recent example is a blistering story written by Elmo Keep and published in the...

The importance of corporate culture has become a major focus as the UK continues to wrestle with the issue of re-establishing trust in business lost during the financial crisis. '

At the basic level, your efforts on the given assignment will directly influence the outcome of that assignment. If the assignment is a material one, your Boss will be very interested in more than a good outcome for that...

Berlin is cast by Athens as the fount of its troubles, but Greek politicians must bear part of the blame• Germany's view of how Greece fell from grace

Many U.S. taxpayers are taking a tax penalty instead of buying health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. The health care law requires most Americans to have insurance, or ...

The global coffee chain has launched a project in the US to get customers talking about race. Its CEO, Howard Schultz, is outspoken on inequality, gay marriage and politics - but not everyone is convinced

It is essential for a state's economy to have a diverse array of companies. Still, the impact each of the companies has on a state's economy varies considerably.

So beyond fans of the two teams there were Chelsea (admittedly to a lesser extend given their league lead), Manchester City, Arsenal, Spurs and Southampton supporters all running various permutations of outcomes through ...

The streets of Sidi Bou Said, a popular tourist destination in Tunisia, are bustling with visitors. But businesses are worried an economic backlash could be on the way after an attack at a museum left 20 foreign tourists...

In the annals of government contracting, there are all sorts of embarrassments that reveal how wasteful and cumbersome the process can be, from the $600 toilet seat to billions wasted in failed programs.

President Obama took office in the midst of the Great Recession. Many assets have rebounded, but some more than others.

401(k) auto-enrollment and auto-escalation programs have made a big difference, but too many retirement savers are still being left behind, says behavioral science and economics professor Richard Thaler.

Cars are more than just a means to get from point a to point b. They can be works of rolling automotive art. Legendary designers such as Marcello Gandini, Giorgetto Giugiaro, and more recently Ian Callum are artistic gen...

Big money managers are purchasing shares of private tech companies, once restricted to a start-up's employees and early investors, but they remain difficult for the broader public to acquire.

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