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Larry Page will now play the top role at Alphabet while Sergey Brin will act as president of the newly formed entity. All the new companies will have a newly appointed CEO.

The old Google that dominates the search engine market and brought us Chrome and YouTube has been somewhat demoted to one of many subsidiary companies under Alphabet – the brand new parent company of Google applications and services, experimental projects, and investing...

Is the worldwide Monetary Fund on board? The first tranche of bailout funds will flow to Greece once its fellow eurozone nations agree. At this stage it is unclear. We still need to talk with each other on a few issues. Greece will only avoid the threat of “Grexit” if...

Another drop in China’s currency sent global markets mostly lower on Wednesday as the move raised worries about the world’s second-largest economy, but US stocks finished mostly higher Wednesday as an afternoon rally led by Apple and energy equities overcame early...

A regulator in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh said in May it had found lead above permissible levels in a sample of noodles, prompting denials from Nestle, which says it has carried out hundreds of its own tests, and a debate on India’s safety standards and testing...

Revenue fell to $2.69 billion from $2.83 billion in the quarter ended June 30. Morgan Stanley lowered shares of Hertz Global Holdings from an “equal weight” rating to an “underweight” rating and cut their price target for the stock from $16.00 to $15.00 in...

Communities along the Animas and San Juan rivers in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah have been forced to stop using river water after 3 million gallons of wastewater spilled from an old Colorado mine.

The Nasdaq Composite Index closed up 7.60 points, or 0.2%, at 5,044.39, after being down as many as 91 points.

GasBuddy.com, which tracks gasoline prices around the country, said the refinery’s problems could push gas prices in Green Bay and the surrounding area up 15 to 30 cents.

Before this plan, there were no limits to the amount of carbon pollution that coal power plants (we have seven in North Dakota) dumped into our atmosphere wreaking havoc on our health and climate.

The Social Security statement people now receive is one example.

“The consumer is in good shape”, Brian Jones, a senior U.S. economist at Societe Generale in New York, said before the report.

In a news release Carl Casale, CHS president and chief executive officer, said the company decided the construction cost, water supply challenges, overall risk profile and time required for the Spiritwood project had changed significantly since it was first considered.

Sources said the move to devalue the yuan reflects a growing clamour within Chinese government circles for a devaluation of perhaps up to 10% to help its struggling exporters.

On Thursday, the weekly report on initial jobless claims showed claims totaled 274,000 last week, right in-line with expectations for 270,000. Firm retail sales data also released Thursday added to a sense of economic strength.