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In the blue corner, wearing black, weighing in at 4.8 ounces, the 31-month champion of the touch screen phones: Apple’s […]

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AIG reported a substantial fourth-quarter loss Friday, largely due to costs associated with selling off large stakes in its insurance businesses to reduce the […]

Tuition at many public colleges and universities is skyrocketing, thanks to state budget deficits that have choked off funding for higher education.
The University […]

Asia is “relatively risk free” from contagion amid deteriorating confidence in Europe’s sovereign debt because its economies have stronger fiscal positions, CIMB Investment Bank […]

The Toronto stock market registered a solid advance Friday despite employment reports for December from Canada and particularly the United States that widely missed expectations.
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Fox Networks and Time Warner Cable announced an agreement Friday that will avert the disruption of Fox network programming to 15 million subscribers of […]

The Chinese yuan and Australian dollar will gain next year as China surpasses Japan as Asia’s biggest economy and policy makers in both nations […]

DUBAI–If global investors were looking for reassurances from Dubai that it would stand behind its massive, debt-swamped investment conglomerate, they got none Monday. Instead, […]

Hong Kong’s exports fell for a 12th straight month in October, dragging on the city’s recovery from a yearlong recession.
Overseas shipments declined 13.1 […]

The number of initial filings for unemployment dropped by 35,000 during the week ending Nov. 21, according to a new report from the U.S. Department […]