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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 […]

MONTREAL–Montreal La Presse says it has reached an agreement in principle with three more of its eight unions, making it increasingly likely the newspaper will […]

U.S. securities investigators raised repeated concern over how Bernard Madoff could be running an honest business, but never followed through on the many red […]

U.S. lawmakers on Thursday approved a measure to extend a government prop to the mortgage market, hoping to keep borrowing costs low and foster […]

The U.S. Senate’s top Democrat and top Republican each voiced support on Wednesday for extending a soon-to-expire $8,000 tax credit for homebuyers, but left […]

Robert McCann, who starts work as head of Swiss bank UBS’s U.S. wealth management unit on Tuesday, said he had no plans to sell […]