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More than half of the chief executives of large U.S. companies say they expect to spend and hire more over the next six months despite […]

Mark Haines, co-anchor of CNBC’s morning “Squawk on the Street” show, died unexpectedly on Tuesday evening, the network said. He was 65.
The network said he […]

Cheerful to the extreme, Christina Romer’s sunny disposition belied the message she delivered Tuesday to students and academics at Washington University.
The topic was the unemployment […]

The federal government lurched toward a shutdown for the first time in 15 years on Friday as Republicans and Democrats in Congress struggled for a […]

A plan to sell rebel-held oil to buy weapons and other supplies has been reached with Qatar, a rebel official said Friday, in another sign […]

Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said increasing the benchmark interest rate to make a gesture in the fight against inflation would be “self-defeating,” […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s staff plans to recommend a “civil enforcement action” against LaBarge Inc., the company says, although no one is saying just […]

Spike the press releases, pack up the surveys, cancel the focus groups.
The tools and tricks of the PR and marketing game are changing, 140 characters […]

Federal health officials are warning doctors and patients that a recently-launched heart drug from Sanofi-Aventis SA has been linked to liver damage in a handful […]

Home prices in Dubai, the property market that had the biggest reversal because of the financial crisis, fell as much as 5.1 percent in […]