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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Higher interest rates are supposed to be bad for stocks. But are they now? On Wednesday, the Federal Reserveraised its benchmark rate for the third time in this recoveryand signaled that three more...

Dear John: Last year, as part of a vacation of a lifetime, we rented a car from Avis in Skag­way, Alaska. The Corolla was shoed in low-profile tires that are notorious for going flat on anything but billiard-smooth road...

You're a light traveler, so there's no reason for a garment bag to slow you down on your travels. It turns out that there is a way to fold your suit jacket and stuff it in a suitcase without it getting wrinkled. All it t...

Donald Trump likes to call his Mar-a-Lago golf resort the “Winter White House” but there may be more presidential puttings than meetings occurring at the get-away destination. It’s difficult to know for certain bec...

Intel may not be quite in the driver's seat with its deal to buy Mobileye, a tech analyst requesting anonymity told On the Money. The chip giant last week reached a $15 billion deal to buy the Israeli tech company that m...

AT&T's integration team got to meet their prospective colleagues at Time Warner last week, sources tell On the Money. The former Ma Bell has said it can achieve a billion dollars in corporate and procurements synergies o...

Following the rules of business can keep your startup on the straight and narrow, but there are times when it pays to tear the business rulebook up.

Top executives at one of Britain's best-performing industrial groups are close to landing a share bonanza worth more than £200m, placing it among the largest one-off payouts ever made by a FTSE-100 company.

Local entrepreneurs want to replace disappearing coal jobs with employment in solar - but that's a tough move in a state that lacks the solar-friendly regulations of places like California If solar energy were Dan Conant...

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Over 50% of Americans aged 25-34 have no retirement savings. Then again, given the current state of the pension system, it may be a prudent move.

Spring cleaning can be cathartic and profitable. While donating or tossing out your unwanted goods is always an option, what about selling them? Here are a few suggestions on how …

To solve truly big and complex problems, we need to build new platforms for collaboration.

Talks over the state budget are heating up, with decisions on college tuition assistance and Uber's upstate expansion looming. The Republican-led Senate and the Democrat-controlled Assembly are in broad agreement …

Thomson Reuters The Federal Reserve hiked interest rates on Wednesday, raising its target federal funds rate by 25 basis points to a range of 0.75% to 1.0%. The rate hike is seen as a vote of confidence in the US economy...

Many smart, ambitious undergrads no longer automatically think of law school as their path to success. The recession of the late 2000s resulted in a nationwide drop in student interest …

Dear John: I know my problem is not really long-term, as many other readers' are. But my frustration level with Synchrony Bank in Florida is off the charts. The sticking point is about the information the bank wants. I h...

Before they start building, Gulfport High School robotics class students have to first find a reason to build. For every piece of machinery his students envision, teacher Clinton Brawley says …

Scammers are now posing as your bank, a con that is spreading.

FBI Director James Comey will be called before lawmakers Monday as part of an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated accusation that he had been wiretapped b...

Last fall, Apple submitted an application to the Federal Communications Commission for an unannounced device with a model number A1844. At the time, the "wireless device," as it was described in the application, was a my...

So far American courts have blocked President Trumps efforts to reform immigration. However, could his anti-immigration arguments ultimately prevail in the U.S. Supreme Court? Does he have a few aces up his sleeve?