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The board of directors of Canadian fertilizer manufacturer PotashCorp. told its shareholders Monday to reject a $38.6 billion hostile takeover bid from Australian mining […]

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The San Francisco solar company SunRun Inc. has closed a $55 million Series C round of funding led by Sequoia Capital, of Menlo Park, with […]

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The just-ended Memorial Day weekend—the traditional start of the summer tourism season—improved for many hoteliers in New York compared to last year, according to a […]

Renting makes more sense than buying a home in Kansas City, according to a new study of price-to-rent ratios in the largest 50 U.S. cities.
The […]

Microsoft’s dominance as the tech industry’s most valuable player has ended.
On Wednesday, Apple’s market capitalization edged past its longtime rival’s as investors […]

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Late last month, we put this question before our readers: "Can St. Louis Compete?"
In a series of stories and columns, […]

Ask Canadians about cellphone plans and be prepared to hear some four letter words.
Two four letter words, actually: love and hate. As in, we love […]

A federal judge has issued a ruling supporting a nearly $2.5 billion bid by Grupo Mexico, the country’s largest mining company, for Asarco LLC, […]

A reserve fund must be established ahead of time to give the government the working capital it needs to dismantle large, troubled financial companies, […]

Rupert Murdoch, head of media giant News Corp, met LG Electronics Inc executives in the South Korean capital on Wednesday, and was due to […]