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Four drug companies reach last-minute settlement in opioid litigation

AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, McKesson and Teva have reached a settlement to avoid a trial seeking to blame them for fueling the opioid crisis, according to people familiar with the matter.

Ford botches Explorer launch, putting CEO back on the hot seat

Ford Motor Co.’s Jim Hackett and Wall Street analysts started this year frustrated with one another. 

Amazon is shipping expired food, from baby formula to old beef jerky

Amazon's marketplace has become home to millions of sellers, making it hard for the company to prevent the sale of expired food.

Inside Ken Fisher's private kingdom, where hardball culture reels in billions

The cold calls go out, hundreds a day, from a dank basement in the redwood hills south of San Francisco.

7 changes to Social Security in 2020

From what beneficiaries will be paid to what workers could owe in payroll tax, big changes are on the way for America's top social program.

Stocks rise as trade and earnings optimism lifts Wall Street sentiment

Stocks opened higher on Monday, boosted by optimism around U.S.-China trade talks as well as the corporate earnings season.

Hudson's Bay agrees to go private at $1.45 billion valuation

Hudson’s Bay Co. will go private in a deal valuing the 349-year-old Canadian retailer at $1.45 billion, allowing a group of investors led by Chairman Richard Baker to try their hand at reinvigorating the fading department-store chain.

This nurse worked more than 30 years at the same hospital. Then the pension plan went bust.

Religious-affiliated pension plans — like the one at this New York state hospital — do not have to get insurance coverage, under the law. And that can spell trouble for retirees if they run low on funds.

Lawyers, insurers and advisers vie with scammers to exploit the elderly

Phone fraudsters and greedy children aren’t the only ones manipulating older Americans, and the threat to their assets is growing.

Berlin freezes rents in landmark plan to tackle cost spiral

Berlin’s governing parties struck a deal to freeze rents for five years, marking one of the most radical plans to tackle spiraling housing costs in a major city and hitting the shares of major apartment owners.

Goldman’s unwelcome streak: A string of insider trading charges

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has built itself into a global dealmaking force whose bankers are often stitching together the biggest and most sensitive corporate transactions.

Oil prices fall as concerns about global demand grow

Oil prices fell Monday as concerns about economic growth combined with signs of ample global supplies pressured prices, outweighing bullish signals from Europe, where fears of an economically damaging no-deal Brexit have eased.

I lost my small business in the Great Recession but at least I learned how to prepare for the next one

The Great Recession claimed my business, along with hundreds of thousands of other once-thriving companies in the span of two years. Here is what I learned to prepare for the next economic downturn.

Low mortgage rates are causing an epic housing shortage

A lull in home sales earlier this year helped build much-needed supply, but a sharp drop in rates this summer brought demand back and has dramatically depleted that inventory.

30 American ghost towns

There are over 1.5 million vacant single family houses and condos in the United States.

Analysis: The eye-popping cost of Medicare for All

According to new figures: more than the federal government will spend over the coming decade on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid combined.