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Builders broke ground on fewer homes in August, a reminder that the housing market remains depressed.
The Commerce Department says builders began work on a seasonally […]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, is launching measures Wednesday that it says will help out women around the world in the next five […]

U.S. stocks rallied for the first time in three days Wednesday after a German court backed the country’s role in bailing out other European countries. […]

You don’t have to buy expensive software to find out how much money you need to retire or what a college education will cost. It’s […]

Air Canada’s labour woes just won’t go away.
The airline’s flight attendants have overwhelmingly rejected a tentative deal negotiated by their union and unanimously recommended for […]

ConocoPhillips said Friday it has discovered new oil seeps in an area of China’s Bohai Bay where it faces a deadline to clean up spills […]

A new survey says salaried U.S. workers can expect another year of modest raises in 2012.
After increasing salaries by 2.6 percent this year and last […]

U.S. stocks are opening lower as economic jitters and uncertainty about Europe’s finances fuel another day of selling around the world.
Shortly after the opening bell, […]

Even though financial stocks rose along with the market on Tuesday, the stock market declines of the last few weeks have been especially harsh on […]

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