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This week is when the rubber meets the road after months – years, even – of qualified remarks, convoluted press conferences, and opaque policy statements: the Federal Reserve will finallyget on with it and raise its benchmark interest for the first time in almost a...

Another potential outcome of the brewing junk bond market crash could be a wave of bankruptcies in the now hot areas of the U.S. economy like shale oil small caps, metals producers and select financial services.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will start letting shoppers in its stores pay with their smartphone using the company’s mobile app, a move that could challenge other mobile- payment methods such as Apple Pay and the Merchant Customer Exchange. The brilliance of Walmart Pay is that it...

The $1 billion plant is supposed to lend credence to Faraday Future’s ambitious plan to bring an electric vehicle to market by 2017, but that remains an ambitious goal, considering the company has yet to fully reveal its concept. It said California, Georgia, Louisiana and...

There was a huge turn out on Saturday in Springfield for the “Toys For Tots” distribution.

Under the terms of the agreement, Jarden shareholders will receive $21 in cash and 0.862 shares of Newell Rubbermaid stock for each of their Jarden shares at closing, according to a joint Newell-Jarden statement.

DuPont shares fell 5.4 percent to $70.56 in midday trading.

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Addressing a joint press meet with Abe, Modi said, “No friend will matter more in realising India’s economic dreams than Japan”. He said he expected India “to act responsibly in the use of nuclear energy”. Modi explained this will be different from...

After beginning at 10 a.m., the meeting dragged on for at least six hours as the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries grappled with how to respond to a prolonged slump in oil prices, which are down more than 60% from their highs in 2014.

Japan and India signed a deal Saturday for $12 billion to build the latter’s first high-speed-train network as both countries also established closer ties in terms of defense and civil nuclear cooperation.

United States job growth increased at a brisk pace in November, allowing the economy to easily clear the last major data hurdle before the Federal Reserve meets on December 15 and 16 – a meeting widely expected to end with a historic interest-rate increase.

Peterson still got the ball four times on the drive, helping the Vikings maintain a sense of balance on offense even though they were down a touchdown and he only gained five yards on the carries.

In its latest monthly oil market report, Opec said low prices will drive strong global demand in 2016, which is estimated to be around 94.13 million bpd, up 1.25 million bpd from this year’s 92.88 million bpd, that was an increase of 1.53 million bpd over last year.

In the rural areas, retail inflation rose to 5.95 per cent and for urban sector it was at 4.71 per cent during the month. For pulses, the combined inflation rate was a whopping 46.08 percent.