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Herbalife is caught between a rock and a hard place. News hit in the past 24 hours that New York State also is investigating whether the company is a pyramid scheme. Shares fell in morning trading.
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ThinkstockThe Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA), which performs the same function for the Canadian government that the Internal Revenue Service does in the U.S., announced today that it has been bitten...
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The people in charge of human resources and public relations at General Motors last week are no longer in the driver's seat. The company's new CEO is probably building her own team.
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Facebook is seeking regulatory approval from the Irish government that would allow the site's users to store money with Facebook and use it to pay bills and exchange money with other people.
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Courtesy Herbalife Ltd.Shares of Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) plunged about 14% on Friday following a Financial Times report that the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI have each launched criminal%...
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courtesy of General MotorsLast December, General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) stock posted its 52-week high price of $41.85. On Friday, the stock fell below its IPO price of $33 for the first time in 10...
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Courtesy Herbalife Ltd.The Financial Times reported late Friday afternoon that Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) is being investigated by both the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI. Neither federal...
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General Motors Co.Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s said in a credit FAQ late Thursday that while the 6 million vehicles recalled this year by General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) will have no...
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courtesy of The Car Spy, via Wikimedia CommonsGerman automaker BMW is recalling about 500,000 cars from model years 2010 to 2011 to fix a problem with the bolts that attach a car’s engine-control...
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ThinkstockAround this time of the year, all of us start to wonder if this is the year the Internal Revenue Service will come to audit. Most of us don’t have to worry, really, because we are honest...
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General Motors Co.In yet another blow to the company’s image and profit, General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) today added the ignition lock cylinder to its recall of 2.2 million older model U.S. cars. All...
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Courtesy Volkswagen AGVolkswagen of America has issued a mandatory stop-sale order on four of its 2014 cars built just this past February. The order applies to Jettas, Beetles, Beetle Convertibles...
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Paying out $108 million to settle Foreign Corrupt Practices Act charges may sound expensive on the surface, but for a company like Hewlett-Packard it may be cheaper than it sounds if you consider its...
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ThinkstockThis is a million-dollar question, literally. Maybe even a billion-dollar question, given all the lobbying money being spent on the debate. The United States has a top corporate income tax...
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Nokia announced Tuesday morning that the sale of virtually all the company's devices and services business to Microsoft had received approval from China's Ministry of Commerce.
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