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'A number of participants' on the FOMC this month favored slowing the Fed's efforts to maintain record-low long-term interest rates as early as summer.
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Outstanding student debt is beginning to impede the economy as a whole, a new report suggests, chiefly by robbing the housing market of its richest crop of new buyers: young college graduates.
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The seemingly foregone conclusion that the stock market rise has been all about the Fed suddenly seems a little less foregone.
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In a domestic energy market developing faster than just about anyone can remember, the key is in finding an edge.
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Four months after Mr. Obama won a second term, the only issue that truly unites Republicans is a commitment to shrinking the federal government through spending cuts, low taxes and less regulation. The NYT reports.
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Admissions officials can usually figure out fairly quickly who needs aid and who doesn’t, but they rarely force you to compete against those outside your income bracket, college counselors say.
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Welcome to the Spartan Race and the world of obstacle racing, one of the fastest growing sports—and businesses—in the United States. Last year obstacle racing was up to 1.5 million worldwide, with Spartan taking up approximately 350,000 of those racers.
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US intelligence officials are trying to figure out the motive behind recent corporate hack attacks -- and where the biggest threats lie.
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Las Vegas Sands is disputing reports out late Friday that it likely violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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Mike Jackson, Chairman & CEO of AutoNation, breaks down the numbers on another month of impressive sales.
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Wholesale government spending cuts should not be the core of the U.S. deficit reduction program, according to a new survey of economists.
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The maker of Budweiser is using splashy newspaper ads to poke fun at a lawsuit that alleges its beer is watered down.
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Retail investors fully embraced this bull market in February despite several possible headwinds, according to a survey.
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While Washington bickers over whether to raise taxes on the rich, the truth is, taxes on the richest Americans are already at their highest in decades.
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Even though stocks are near all-time highs, Warren Buffett still thinks they are more attractive than other investments.
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President Obama has selected air quality expert Gina McCarthy to lead the EPA and physicist Ernest Moniz to head the Department of Energy, a White House official said.
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A baby girl in Mississippi who was born with HIV has been cured after very early treatment with standard HIV drugs, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.
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Hess will exit its retail, energy marketing, and energy trading businesses following pressure from an activist investor to break up the company.
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President Barack Obama raised the issue of cutting entitlements as a way out of damaging budget cuts, as both sides in Washington tried to limit a fiscal crisis that may soon hit America.
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The pace of growth in the U.S. manufacturing sector picked up to its fastest rate in over a year and a half in February as new orders continued to accelerate, while a separate report showed U.S. construction spending fell.
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President Obama blamed Republicans' refusal to close `wasteful' loopholes for the automatic budget cuts going into effect Friday, and said Americans will get through the crisis.
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Sen. Rand Paul, U.S. Senator (R-KY), weighs in on the Fed minutes today and his proposed "Audit the Fed" bill last month.
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Chinese investors cite lack of corruption and rule of law as key to investing in U.S.
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Today's Fed Minutes showed no consensus among Federal Reserve officials. Jim Grant, Grant's Interest Rate Observer, shares his reaction.