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A 30-second Super Bowl ad spot can easily set a company back millions of dollars , which is why it should come as no surprise that some businesses are turning ...

Ant Financial buying MoneyGram in first big USA move

CBA struck a payment deal with Ant's Aliplay past year. MoneyGram will remain headquartered in Dallas after the merger. MoneyGram shares rose 8.7 per cent...

Inflation rises to 1.3 percent

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Trump takes to Twitter as Dow tops 20000 on Wall Street

Bank Wealth Management told CNBC. It closed at 20,068.09 points, up 155.38 points or 0.78 per cent. The S&P 500 was 10.09 points higher at 2,290.16, while the...

Bob Evans Farms (BOBE) Is Up Sharply After Sale Of Restaurants

The company will keep the part of its business, BEF Foods, that sells Bob Evans branded products in stores. In the same announcement on Tuesday, Bob Evans ann...

Rallies Planned to Defund Planned Parenthood

Fact checkers have hammered this fallacious claim for what it is - a ludicrous lie. All facilities said that they provided abortions. Despite the fact that ther...

Even without NAFTA, collateral risk to Canada very low: Trump adviser

And so the Trudeau team may try to convince the Trump team that America's issues are not with Canada, and that a close bilateral trade relationship benefits b...

Markit's flash United States manufacturing PMI beat expectations

The reading, a four-month low, was below the consensus forecast in a Reuters poll of economists but comfortably above the 50 mark that separates growth from con...

Yahoo beats Q4 earnings expectations, pushes closing of Verizon deal into Q2

Verizon said on Tuesday it continued to work with Yahoo to assess the impact of data breaches. However, this was thrown into doubt after two huge data breach...

Yancoal to buy Coal & Allied

Coal & Allied owns and operates the Hunter Valley Operations and Mt Thorley Warkworth coal mines in the Hunter Valley, NSW. Rio Tinto Plc (RTPPF.PK,RIO.L,RIO,...

Judge Blocks Aetna-Humana Merger on Grounds It Is Anticompetitive

A federal judge Monday at least temporarily blocked the proposed $37 billion mega-merger between US health insurance industry giants Aetna and Humana , ruli...

Dollar slips after Trump's protectionist address, Asia shares resilient

Certainly in risk assets, we've seen the USA dollar fall too. On Monday, Trump told US manufacturing executives he would impose a hefty border tax on firms th...

Trump reinstalls Churchill bust, gives makeover to Oval Office

Trump has held onto "The Avenue in the Rain", by the American impressionist Childe Hassam, from Obama's Oval Office, and the back wall still hangs a painting of...

President Trump Signs Executive Order on Obamacare

Obamacare repeal should not have hit even the preliminary stage with so many details about the GOP's vision for health-care reform glaringly absent. Such an i...

Taking a Fresh Look at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY)

Relative volume is ratio between current volume and 3-month average value, intraday adjusted. The earnings per share quarter to quarter growth is 71.10%. In con...

China GDP surprises with 6.8pc economic growth

This was better than expected after economists had predicted that growth would fall 0.1 percentage points. Gross domestic product increased 6.8 percent in the...

Rallye Monte-Carlo: Neuville stretches clear as Monte takes toll

Hyundai Motorsport withdrew Hayden Paddon's vehicle after the i20 Coupe had rolled over and blocked the road towards the end of the 21.25 kilometre Entrevaux...

How Lower Crude Oil Prices Could Impact Coal Miners

February production will edge up 40,750 barrels per day (bpd) to 4.748 million bpd, the EIA said. Market analysts paused a bit on news that Iraq's oil expor...

Hundreds of CT women set to attend Women's March on Washington

Speakers will be at the march to talk about women's rights , including small business owner Alicia Beck, doctor Stacy Meredith Bennett, retired state Rep. Wade...

Trump 'names' National Football League owner Woody Johnson as ambassador to UK

However, following the collapse of Bush's campaign, Johnson supported Trump, and became a major fundraising in the months before election day. Lets hope Johns...

Sensex recovers by 21.98 pts, ends firm at 27257.64

The gauge had gained 50.11 in yesterday trade. The NSE 50-share Nifty was also up by 8.05 points, or 0.10 per cent, at 8,408.40 at 1115 hours. "A turnaround i...

SkyPan, FAA settle largest-ever fine proposed for a UAS operator

The agreement resolves enforcement cases that alleged the company operated unmanned aircraft in congested airspace over New York City and Chicago, and violated ...

Girl Scouts Announce New S'mores Cookie

Some current and former Girl Scouts, troop leaders, parents and others took to social media to criticize their participation . Designed for girls in grades K-1...

Don't Assume Canada Will Rally With U.S., Poloz Warns Investors

These include a shift toward protectionist global trade policies. In its latest monetary policy report , the bank announced that it was keeping its key inter...

Tehran fire: Commercial tower collapses, many injured

He also wrote that "immediate compensation" will be given to the victims. The death toll is expected to go up, with authorities claiming that at least 50-100 pe...

JP Morgan Chase to fork out $55m to settle mortgage discrimination claims

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. JPMorgan Chase & Co.is a financial holding company. Four analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eleven have issued a hold...

Crude Prices Boosted by Saudi Oil Minister Comments

However, analysts say the global supply glut may prove stubborn if United States and other non-OPEC producers turn on the spigot. The news agency quoted Goldman...

Microsoft will support Windows 7 until 2020

The Windows 10 Creators Update will include a new Game Mode, as per the latest announcement . "We'll improve the performance of your PC games through the all ...

Japan space agency fails to launch rocket

At 32 feet (9.5-meters) tall with a diameter of 20 inches, the SS-520-4 would have been the smallest rocket to ever put an object into orbit had the mission s...

Amazon launches self-branded subscription channels, starting with Anime Strike

Amazon's vice president of digital video, Michael Paull , told The Hollywood Reporter the company chose to launch Anime Strike following demand from its s...

SpaceX to launch first rocket since Falcon 9 explosion

But 2016 has definitely been a financial challenge, and it's unlikely the company hit its forecasts of $1.8 billion in revenue, and $55 million in operating pro...

Donald Trump's Tweets, News Conference Aside, GM Isn't Leaving Mexico

Throughout his campaign, Trump criticized automakers for moving production to Mexico. "It's finally happening - Fiat Chrysler just announced plans to invest $...

Fiat Chrysler announces creation of 2000 jobs in U.S.

Ford's CEO criticized Trump's 35 percent tariff idea in November. The announcement is a continuation of efforts to increase production of SUVs and trucks...

Trump's Advisor Denies Immediate Replacement of Obamacare

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer , D-N.Y., has said if Republicans void Obama's bill, Democrats won't help them pass alternative legislation. Support f...

Trump Teams Up With Alibaba CEO to Create Small Business Jobs

Its return prompted the company to question whether the decision was based on the election of Trump and what was viewed as his anti-China trade stance. Despit...