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Walgreen Co. said Monday higher sales and cost-cutting boosted its fiscal fourth-quarter profit 12% amid a difficult economic environment.
Profit for the quarter ended Aug. […]

Venting can be healthy. Today it’s the readers’ turn.
On why many Americans do a poor job of saving:
"Our schools don’t teach […]

In sports, timing is the difference between a score and miscue. For a trio of graduates from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, the same has […]

CarMax Inc (KMX.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), the largest U.S. retailer of used cars, reported a 78 percent drop in quarterly profit and […]

The Wall Street that shaped the financial world for two decades ended last night, when Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley concluded there […]

Residents of Missouri and surrounding states who have insurance policies with American International Group or one of its subsidiaries can rest assured that the […]

OTTAWA–Statistics Canada says its composite leading index rose in August, nudged higher by ongoing strength in household spending.
The agency also reported Thursday that […]

The federal government’s rescue of American International Group gave the insurance titan something even more important than access to $85 billion … it gave […]

MINNEAPOLIS — Airline bets that oil prices would rise looked like a no-brainer this summer. But with oil prices falling, those hedges against rising […]

Investors sent shares of Monsanto Co. on their steepest one-day climb in nearly six months on Tuesday after the biotech giant raised its full-year […]