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Defining what is crude oil and what is not ends the ban on crude oil exports as effectively as does new legislation, and it does so without all the political blowback.
ThinkstockThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) late Friday afternoon announced that it has approved Afrezza, a rapid-acting, inhaled insulin power that improves glycemic control in adults with...
Fitch warns that the Brazilian government's decision to assign the production of the excess volume of the transfer of right areas to Petrobras will further pressure the company's cash flow generation...
Records storage and information management firm Iron Mountain has received authorization from the IRS to convert itself to a real estate investment trust for the tax year beginning January 1, 2014.
A new research report from Oppenheimer views the decision by the U.S. Department of Commerce to allow some export of oil condensate as a first step in the right direction.
Google has begun to comply with the decision by the European Court of Justice in early May that individuals can ask it to remove links to certain documents that turn up in search results.
Wikimedia CommonsOnline retail giant Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has faced a number of labor issues in the U.S. and Europe over the past year or so. Most have been related to pay for warehouse...
With more than 7,800 stores worldwide, Walgreen was the sixth-largest U.S. retailer, based on 2013 sales of nearly $72 billion and profit of $2.5 billion. Virtually all those sales and profits came...
In an announcement late Thursday, Ford said that it discovered an error in its fuel-economy ratings for some of its vehicles, that it has corrected the error and that it will make a "goodwill"...
When Tesla Motors lost its ability to sell cars directly to customers in New Jersey, the ban was the result of a decades old state law prohibiting automakers from bypassing dealers and selling...
ThinkstockThe Environmental Protection Agency on Monday proposed a rule designed to cut carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal power plants by as much as 30% by 2030, as compared with the...
ThinkstockWith new Obama-led EPA rules for coal-powered electric utilities out, investors and traders have had yet one more reason to dump their coal stocks. The long and short of the matter is that...
Following an appeals court ruling delivered late Monday, Herbalife issued a statement declaring that the decision "validates product consumption as a legitimate measure of demand for multi-level...
ThinkstockU.S. gross domestic product (GDP) in 2013 totaled $16.8 trillion dollars, but how much more could it have been if the United States counted income from drug sales and prostitution?...
ThinkstockThe Food & Drug Administration has just put another dark cloud over the business of tanning booths. This FDA issue is a final order which reclassifies sunlamp products and ultraviolet...