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On Wednesday, Synchrony Financial (SYF), the largest provider of private label credit cards, received approval from The Federal Reserve Board to become a standalone savings and loan holding company.

If the gains are sustainable the stock has room to run.

Looking ahead to fiscal 2015, Rio Tinto Rio Tinto maintained its outlook for global iron ore shipments of around 340 million tonnes from its operations in Australia and Canada.

Manufacturing output dropped by a revised 0.4% in August, which was previously reported as a 0.5% drop.

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley emphasized the need for bigger financing and implementation plans by the World Bank Group to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); and need for the significant increase in the capital of the World Bank Group to meet the...

The company reported $1.51 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $1.49 by $0.02.

“I think that restaurant patrons have unwittingly believed that they could, if they wanted to, use their tip to punish bad service, and/or to praise great service”, Meyer tells All Things Considered’s Kelly McEvers.

Transport for London (TfL), the local government body which regulated the operation of taxis and PHVs in London, had previously said it did not believe Uber’s use of smartphones was equivalent to a taximeter – but had deferred the final decision to the High Court.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index jumped over 2 percent to the highest level in almost two months.

While offering a bundle of road and highway projects to Rajasthan, the minister said that around 96,000 kilometers of roads are being constructed across India annually and this target would soon be improved to 1.5 lakhs kilometers per year.

The move comes less than a week after Dorsey, one of the founders of Twitter, returned to the job of CEO as part of an effort to revive growth. His second major decision will likely be a lot less popular.

By the end of 2016, enrollment in the exchanges – a key component of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – is expected to range from 9.4 million to 11.4 million, up from an HHS-projected enrollment of 9.1 million at the end of 2015.

Nestle said it will fall short of its long-term growth target for a third consecutive year, highlighting the volatile conditions in emerging markets that continue to weigh on European consumer-product companies and retailers alike.

German transport authorities will order auto giant Volkswagen to recall 2.4 million diesel vehicles in Germany equipped with pollution-cheating software, a spokesman told AFP on Thursday.

China and Indonesia signed a joint-venture agreement Friday on the construction and operation of a high-speed railway from Jakarta to Bandung, a historical breakthrough for the overseas expansion of Chinese high-speed railway technology.