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American soda consumption has plunged. In a recent research report to clients, an RBC Capital Markets team shared a chart showing just how dramatically soda consumption per capita in the US has dropped over the last 15 ...

investors may be able to learn a thing or two from how investors read the news. January, for instance, was the market's worst start to a year in nearly a decade. It also happened to be MarketWatch's best month ever for t...

It began with Fairtrade. Almost 30 years later, with hundreds of different certifications is it time to question what they all do and who benefits? In 1988, the first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, was applied to packs o...

REUTERS/Rick Wilking Getting rich isn't reserved for a select few. Almost anyone can make it happen — and people who have done it say wealth often begins with your mentality.

Beware, Americans! Wall Street is desperately trying to rig the oil and gasoline markets again. I've been following this scheme for nearly 10 years as speculators, led by the Goldman Sachs gang, tried to convince people ...

Mark Lennihan/AP What does a 25-year old know about trading bonds? Maybe enough to help one investing giant solve a problem that Wall Street can't seem to get its head around.  BlackRock, which manages $4.6 trillion in...

NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly says the league has no reason to believe the Montreal Canadiens acted inappropriately by trading Jarred Tinordi to the Arizona Coyotes after the defenseman was suspended 20 games for per...

JetBlue Two Muslim women on board a JetBlue plane heading from Boston to Los Angeles were taken off the plane after the pair were found to be staring at a flight attendant in an odd manner and filming the safety briefing...

The death of John Gutfreund at age 86 marks the formal end of an era on Wall Street when swashbuckling bond traders made huge bets using house money.

Taco Bell Taco Bell has launched a $1 breakfast menu. The menu features existing items such as a breakfast burrito, a two-pack of Cinnabon Delights, and hash browns, as well as several new items, all costing $1. The new ...

AP Ikea's founder, Ingvar Kamprad, is a billionaire. In fact, he's the second-richest man in Europe, with a reported net worth of $39.3 billion. But he doesn't spend all of his money on Louis Vuitton luggage and Carti...

REUTERS/Robert Galbraith When Apple last reported quarterly earnings, it adjusted its revenue guidance for 2016 down, suggesting that its incredibly profitable iPhone business had peaked. Now, according to supplier check...

Bloomberg/Getty Google is known for encouraging employees to set stretch goals, and for expecting that they might not always get all the way there. At the same time, managers don't simply accept failure and move on. In f...

Photo: NA Films/ Film4/ Universal Pictures. Artificial intelligence (AI) became a scientific field almost 60 years ago. Ever since then, researchers have tried to achieve human-level smarts or better. Yet even with recen...

You can't lead others if you don't first learn how to lead yourself. Here's how to do it.

Alex Goodlett/Getty Images The NFL regular season is still a long ways away, but after two huge splashes in free agency on Wednesday, the Houston Texans look like they'll be one of the best teams in the AFC come Week 1...

Credit markets in Europe soared after the ECB surprised investors by saying it would begin buying corporate debt under its massive bond-buying program.

Twitter's move to reset pay packages to retain employees is a reminder that stock-based compensation is a real expense for investors.

The DividendRank formula at Dividend Channel ranks a coverage universe of thousands of dividend stocks, according to a proprietary formula designed to identify those stocks that combine two important characteristics — ...

Product management tool Propel announced today that it closed a $4.2 million series A investment led by Cloud Apps Capital Partners. Propel’s product, built on Salesforce, promises a service that “helps everyone invo...

GUEST: Last week, I wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian expressing concern that Microsoft's new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) APIs comprised a first step toward locking down the currently open consumer PC ecosyste...

GUEST: Steve Ballmer, the former chief executive officer of Microsoft and the current owner of the L.A. Clippers, has a lot to say about Microsoft — especially about the Microsoft Azure cloud business. In an interview ...