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Pitching tougher rules on tax evasion to the G8 is a precarious undertaking for Prime Minister David Cameron. Britain's own tax havens are world leaders. Britain's list of exotic Overseas Territories reads ...

A surprise spike in mortgage rates threatens to halt a refinancing boom that has delivered strong profits for U.S. banks over the past two years.

Boeing Co is poised to launch a larger member of its 787 Dreamliner jetliner family to meet demand for long-haul travel within Asia and other long-haul routes, sources told Reuters on Thursday. Long-discussed ...

Many investors have lowered their expectations for future inflation, a shift that could get the attention of Federal Reserve officials as they consider the course of their bond-buying program at a policy meeting next week.

Delays in approval of more natural gas export projects are costing U.S. companies millions of dollars a day and giving a leg up to rival countries also looking to boost exports, the chief of Exxon Mobil ...

An Apple Inc executive at the center of an antitrust lawsuit by the U.S. government said on Thursday the company "didn't care" what price publishers set for e-books. Eddy Cue said he was not ...

Top Office Depot Inc investor Starboard Value LP sued the second-largest U.S. office supply retailer on Thursday for not holding an annual shareholder meeting to elect directors, an unusual step on the ...

Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. said Thursday that it expects its first-quarter financial results may top market expectations and it is planning to buy back some of its shares. The company's stock is up in after-hours trading.

U.S. stocks extended gains on Thursday, with the Dow Jones industrial average up 1 percent, after stronger-than-expected economic data helped ease concerns about the impending start of the winding down of stimulus from the Federal Reserve.

Proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services on Thursday urged Clearwire Corp shareholders to vote against majority shareholder Sprint Nextel Corp's $3.40 per share offer for Clearwire stock ...

“I’ve never seen anything like the last five months” in terms of the frequency of generous dividend hikes, says Hersh Cohen, co-chief investment officer of Legg Mason's ClearBridge Investments. “Dividends have exploded to the upside.”