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  • Weekly Jobless Claims Get Weaker as Outlook Dims Thursday, 4 Apr 2013 | 9:39 AM ET
    A man holds his resume notebook with Eagle Ford Shale printed on the cover and waits in line for the opening of a job fair.

    The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose to its highest level in four months, suggesting the labor market recovery lost some steam.

  • Wilting Greens, Why It's Time for Walmart to Hire Thursday, 4 Apr 2013 | 12:00 AM ET
    Customers shop for produce at a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. location in American Canyon, California, U.S.

    The nation's largest retailer and grocer has cut so many employees that it no longer has enough workers to stock its shelves properly, according to critics, the New York Times reports.

  • Bitcoin Hacked: Price Stumbles After Buying Frenzy Thursday, 4 Apr 2013 | 6:10 AM ET

    Online currency bitcoin had 20 percent knocked off its price overnight on Thursday as one of its major exchanges became the victim of a hacking attack leading to a sell-off in the virtual currency after reaching an all-time high.

  • War Against Superbugs Likely Unwinnable: Doctors Thursday, 4 Apr 2013 | 8:32 AM ET
    Virus

    In addition to superbugs' deadly human toll, associated health costs run into the billions. Some warn that we may never win our war against them as research tapers off.

  • Enron's Skilling Could Get Early Release From Prison Thursday, 4 Apr 2013 | 10:40 AM ET
    Former Enron CEO, Jeff Skilling (L), and his attorney, Daniel Petrocelli.

    Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, who is serving a 24-year prison term for his role in the energy giant's epic collapse, could get out of prison early under an agreement being discussed, CNBC has learned.

  • Three Black Swans Are Hovering Over Markets Wednesday, 3 Apr 2013 | 2:47 PM ET

    The chatter in the market may be bullish but there is a real danger that something could go wrong—something no one is talking about now but will be once they get hit by some unexpected development.

  • Central Bank Efforts May 'End in Tears': El-Erian Thursday, 4 Apr 2013 | 12:19 PM ET
    Mohamed El-Erian, CEO PIMCO

    Global central banks are accelerating mostly ineffective policies because they feel they have no choice but to keep trying, Pimco's Mohamed El-Erian told CNBC.

  • North Korea Army Says Gets Approval for US Nuke Strike Thursday, 4 Apr 2013 | 4:35 AM ET
    Kim Il-Sung Square, North Korea

    The North Korean army said it has final approval to launch strikes against the United States, including the use of nuclear weapons. The Global Post reports.

  • Op-Ed: Blast From the Future on the Crash of 2015 Tuesday, 2 Apr 2013 | 12:19 PM ET

    Today's paper says we should have seen it coming. The facts were all there says Peter J. Tanous, president of Lepercq Lynx Investment Advisory. Were we really that stupid?

  • North Korea Warns; US Boosts Guam Defense Wednesday, 3 Apr 2013 | 7:40 PM ET
    Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), is a United States Army system to shoot down short, medium, and intermediate ballistic missiles in their terminal phase using a hit-to-kill approach.

    Rhetoric is heating up: North Korea's army warned that it has been cleared to wage an attack on the US, while the US said it will deploy a missile defense system to Guam.

  • LOS ANGELES, April 1, 2013/ PRNewswire/-- Pinkberry, the original brand that reinvented the frozen yogurt category, now offers its new Pinkberrygreek™ in all stores nationwide.

  • Fed-Fueled Auto Loans: The Next Subprime Bubble? Wednesday, 3 Apr 2013 | 8:56 AM ET
    A car awaits repairs in the service department at a Chrysler dealership.

    At car dealers across the United States, loans to subprime borrowers are surging — up 18 percent in 2012 from a year earlier, to 6.6 million borrowers. And it's the Federal Reserve that's made it all possible.

  • Cramer: Apple Is 'Becoming the JC Penney of Tech' Tuesday, 2 Apr 2013 | 10:14 AM ET

    It doesn't appear that Apple can do anything about its tailspin, CNBC's Jim Cramer says.

  • Hackers Besiege Banks as Global Cyber War Ramps Up Wednesday, 3 Apr 2013 | 11:04 AM ET

    Major US bank websites have been offline a total of 249 hours in the past six weeks, a clear sign that American companies are prime targets in global cyber conflict.

  • US to Raise Medicare Advantage Payment Rate Tuesday, 2 Apr 2013 | 6:07 AM ET

    Following intense lobbying from the health insurance industry and members of Congress, the U.S. government said it will increase the payment rate for health insurers that offer coverage through the popular Medicare Advantage program.

  • In an effort to simplify access to the virtual currency Bitcoin, Jeff Berwick, CEO of TDV Media, is working to launch the world's first Bitcoin ATM.

  • Junk-Store Jackpots Thursday, 28 Mar 2013 | 1:31 PM ET

    Are you savvy enough to discover tag sale treasure? These found fortunes were windfalls for those lucky enough to buy them at tag sales, garage sales, and thrift stores.

  • Cyprus Will Happen Everywhere: Marc Faber Tuesday, 2 Apr 2013 | 11:33 AM ET

    Events like those in Cyprus will happen in more countries all over the world, said Marc Faber, contrarian investor and publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report.

  • If you spend time worrying that you'll end up on the street in your old age with your belongings stuffed into plastic bags in a shopping cart, you have good company.

  • Markets Sending Unusual Signals: El-Erian Thursday, 28 Mar 2013 | 9:34 PM ET

    In logging its best first-quarter performance since 1987, the Dow set yet another all-time high. Yet this is far from the whole story.