Stocks Climb on Dovish Fed Comments; Bernanke Up Next
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Apple's CEO is disputing assertions that the company evades billions of dollars in U.S. taxes by shifting profits to foreign affiliates.
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Applications for home mortgages rebounded last week as interest rates tumbled, data from an industry group showed on Wednesday.
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Forbes has described the Saudi billionaire Alwaleed Bin Talal's valuation estimates of his fortunes as an "alternate reality".
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Home diva Martha Stewart testified in court that she did nothing wrong when she signed an agreement to open up shops within J.C. Penney stores.
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Apple has held talks with Beats Electronics on a potential partnership involving Beats' planned music-streaming service, three people familiar with the situation told Reuters.
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A star-studded battle among hedge fund titans over the nutritional supplements company Herbalife became the talk of Wall Street when it erupted. But when the barbs eventually fall silent and the klieg lights dim, how will the Herbalife war end? And what truth will emerge? The New York Times reports.
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Top U.S. railroad BNSF Railway Co, one of the largest users of diesel fuel in the United States, plans to test using natural gas to power its locomotives this year.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average pierced through levels last seen in 2007 to close at a record high of above 14,200 on Tuesday, boosted by an upbeat ISM non-manufacturing index and amid ongoing monetary support from the Federal Reserve.
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Google is launching a same-day delivery service called Google Shopping Express to rival Amazon's Prime business, according to a report.
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The U.S. services sector grew in February and topped Wall Street's estimates, the ISM non-manufacturing index showed.
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Supplies of homes in Las Vegas are down 57 percent from a year ago and housing starts are up 96 percent, according to Applied Analysis, a Las Vegas research firm.
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While a trader known as the "London whale" has come to represent a multibillion-dollar blowup at JPMorgan Chase, Congressional investigators have discovered that the problems involved more senior levels of the nation's largest bank. The New York Times reports.
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American car buyers, attracted by new models and cheap financing, are taking out bigger auto loans and stretching out the terms of those loans to a new record length.
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It may not be fast enough for some consumers, but the drop in pump prices is accelerating. Analysts said the gasoline price slide could continue.
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Shares in Google hit an all-time high in intraday trading on Monday as Apple shares continued to fall. Some say this signals Google is taking Apple's place.
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Spending on drugs to treat common diseases fell 1.5 percent among customers who receive prescription benefits through commercial insurers.
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At this Seattle-based, 400-employee video game developer and publisher, decisions are made by peer consensus. Seriously?
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The stock market is bolstered by the strength of corporate balance sheets, said Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Shawn Matthews Tuesday on "Squawk on the Street."
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We "suspect a drop is now likely to unfold over the next several months," Piper analysts said, adding that their full-year forecast is for a "hop, a drop and a pop."
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The shift toward low carbon energy will take time and require a major change in the electricity industry, a study released by IHS CERA and the World Economic Forum says.
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As the Dow roars into record territory, there's one sector that's nowhere near its glory days: Financials.
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What could bring the market down, with Rich Peterson, Standard & Poor's Capital IQ and Mike Santoli, Yahoo! Finance.
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Tom Bennett is with Jim Giles Safe Rooms of Oklahoma and also a board member at the National Storm Shelter Association. Bennett discusses his business of storm shelters.
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CNBC regular Art Cashin, of UBS, says Tuesday's market advances have provided 67 percent of this year's gains. His reaction to the phenomenon.