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Retailers and shippers gear up for holiday hiring

The holidays are still months away, but retailers and shipping companies have begun announcing their hiring plans for the busy holiday season.

Oil surges most in two weeks after U.S. inventories decline

(Bloomberg) -- Oil rose the most this month after a government report showed U.S. crude inventories declined as refineries bolstered operating rates.

Google is suing a robocaller that targeted Adwords customers

If you answer a phone call and hear a recording claiming to be Google, the odds are good that you're being scammed.

The world's first 8K TV will go on sale next month

If you think 4K still has a content problem, you'll probably want to give Sharp's latest display a miss. 

GE sells $3.7B UK home loan portfolio to Kensington Mortgage

General Electric Co (GE.N) said on Wednesday it had sold a $3.7 billion portfolio of loans from its British home lending business to private equity-backed Kensington Mortgage Co Ltd as it continues to shrink its financing arm, GE Capital.

As the world gets fatter, this drug giant gets richer

Late on a chilly Friday in February 2013, Novo Nordisk A/S Chief Executive Officer Lars Rebien Soerensen got news that his company’s most promising new treatment, an insulin called Tresiba, had been rejected by U.S. regulators.

Early shoppers line up for tax-free weed in Colorado

DENVER — Marijuana consumers were taking advantage of a tax holiday in Colorado on Wednesday, with some lining up early for doorbuster-style deals.

6 Financial Perks of Being a First-Time Homebuyer

Hours after we closed on our first house, my husband and I sat in our empty new living room and stared at the walls. He was the first to speak, saying simply, “I thought it was painted.” We learned a lot about that old house over the next 15 years, and while we knew to expect some changes, others, such as the need to paint the walls, we would figure out as we went along. That included making some adjustments to our tax forms. All of those ...

Ford rains on the self-driving-car parade

The traditional automakers have a big problem. The digital revolution is coming for their business, and they appear ill-suited to win a clean fight. ...

Top 1 percent of Harvard grads richer than America's 1 percent

The top 10 schools for ultrahigh net worth alums account for 5 percent of the world's 211,275 people worth $30 million or more, Wealth-X found.