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Gas prices continued to decline last week, as the price of crude oil prices dropped to a seven-week low.
The national average price of a gallon […]

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Suffolk Construction is acquiring northern Virginia’s Dietze Construction in a deal that will increase the Boston firm’s presence in the hot Washington, D.C., market and […]

WASHINGTON–The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits dropped unexpectedly last week, a sign the job market is healing as the […]

Ponzi scammer Bernard Madoff has been transferred to a medical facility at the prison where he’s incarcerated in North Carolina, according to the Federal […]

OTTAWA–Threats by the mining industry to pull out of Canada if Ottawa tightens scrutiny of its operations in the developing world are hollow, an experienced […]

Shares of Hyatt Hotels Corp rose almost 8 percent in their debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, alongside an upswing in […]

The U.K. economy will grow twice as fast as previously expected next year as the country pulls out of the worst recession in a […]

When Carlos Brito, chief executive of Anheuser-Busch InBev, speaks in public, it’s usually because something big is afoot. Last week, Brito showed up in […]

Japan’s Toshiba Corp plans to bid for French nuclear group Areva’s power transmission and distribution unit, four sources with direct knowledge of the situation […]

HAZELWOOD — Seventy years ago this summer, James S. McDonnell opened his new company, McDonnell Aircraft Corp., at Lambert Field.
McDonnell wasn’t from here […]