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His startling declaration left his onstage rivals scrambling to compete for attention the rest of the night.

Oil prices remained under pressure on worries about oversupply and weak global demand, but gold bucked the trend although by not enough to see the precious metal avoid its longest weekly losing streak since 1999.

He bragged about how Hillary Clinton dared not miss his most recent wedding because he donated to her campaign. Rolling Stone’s article, “What the Trump and Cosby Allegations Reveal About Rape Culture” substitutes Donald for the more obvious culprit, Bill...

Monthly job growth has averaged 211,286 so far this year, a level suggesting employers are confident the economy will continue to expand and require more workers. At 62.6%, it remains at levels not seen since the late 1970s.

Average hourly earnings ticked up 5 cents in July to $24.99 and are now up 2.1 percent year over year.

While the Republican Congress stomps around with their investigations and Gov. Rick Scott jumps on the bandwagon threatening to fight the “evils” housed in Planned Parenthood, everyone should be brought back to reality.

The report was not bad enough to derail the Fed’s and markets’ expectations for a rate hike this year, and it was not stellar enough to lock in a September rate hike.

The odds of a rate increase-based on trading in Fed-funds futures-at the September meeting were 56% Friday, compared with 46% before the jobs report and 48% Thursday, according to traders.

Energy policy was nearly absent during the two-hour show in Cleveland, and none of the top 10 candidates mentioned President Obama’s controversial Clean Power Plan. She clearly believed everything Romney said in the 47 percent video and wanted the dark horse candidates to...

The first Republican primary Debate is Thursday night, and we’ve been getting a number of questions about bars that will be showing it. We know this is Washington, the wonkiest town in America. In 2014, 51 percent of those aged 18 to 34 identified with or leaned toward...

That, at least, is the word from most economists. This year is the first since then that the national unemployment rate for black Americans has dipped below the double-digit mark-and that feat has only been accomplished in 11 states.

“We don’t have the tools to be able to address the structure of unemployment across groups, but a stronger economy generally really does tend to be beneficial to all Americans and that’s what we are working towards”, she said. Economists surveyed by...

Top Wall Street banks still expect the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates in September, but a growing number now believe the central bank is likely to only hike once this year, a Reuters poll found on Friday.

The U.S. economy created a net of 215,000 jobs in July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday.

Shares on the Athens Stock Exchange are suffering huge losses of over 22 percent after the market reopened for the first time in more than a month.