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A resurgent demand for gift cards may extend retailers’ holiday cheer well into January.
Gift card spending rose to nearly 18 percent of total holiday spending […]

Molly Curlee, the owner of City Sprouts, debated whether to keep her University City toy store open a bit later on Christmas Eve this year.
“It’s […]

The British government will restructure the country’s banks by separating their retail activities from riskier investment banking operations, Business Secretary Vince Cable said Sunday.
Cable said […]

Jurors have resumed deliberations in a Utah company’s $1 billion federal antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. and say they’re close to a verdict.
Novell Inc. sued […]

The deficit in the broadest measure of foreign trade fell in the summer to the lowest level in nearly two years, reflecting stronger exports of […]

President Barack Obama wants voters to get involved in the debate over extending the reduced payroll tax and he’s asking them to tell members of […]

The central banks of the wealthiest countries, trying to prevent a debt crisis in Europe from exploding into a global panic, swept in Wednesday to […]

Peru’s biggest mining investment is under threat and government social welfare programs with it as highlands peasants step up protests against a gold-and-copper mine they […]

State monitors will crack down on scofflaws who illegally park in spaces reserved for those with disabilities on Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping […]

With global stock markets on another roller-coaster ride, it might be tempting to just sell your stocks and stuff the money in your mattress.
But experts […]