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Students preparing to go to college this fall might be preoccupied with choosing a computer or shopping for sheets that fit a dormitory bed.
Often less […]

Wal-Mart de Mexico SA says store openings pushed down its second quarter profit by 3 percent.
The Mexican unit of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says net income […]

Wal-Mart Canada will launch a new store format, called

The West Virginia Supreme Court rejected a request Tuesday to temporarily bar Massey Energy Co. shareholders from voting on a proposed $7.1 billion sale to […]

If lawmakers can’t agree on a spending bill before the clock strikes midnight, a couple million federal workers won’t be getting paychecks on time. […]

Estonia _ the eurozone’s newest and poorest member _ will not shirk from bailing out much richer Portugal and Ireland, the country’s finance minister said […]

Stocks fell Thursday after another big earthquake hit northern Japan. The 7.4-magnitude earthqauke triggered tsunami warnings along Japan’s devastated northern coast.
The Dow Jones industrial average […]

Seychelles, an Indian Ocean archipelago, expects public debt to shrink to 50 percent of gross domestic product by 2017 on further economic reforms, Central Bank […]

Prime Minister Julia Gillard highlighted risks posed by Australia’s ties to a global commodity boom, with a patchwork economy emerging from export gains accompanied by […]

As Treasury gets the new consumer financial protection bureau up and running, big business groups released a wish list Tuesday for what they think […]