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Nu Skin Enterprises shares surged on Monday on news that the fine in China will be far less than many investors were worried about, a mere $540,000 for its sales and marketing practices in China.
Jon OggZions Bancorporation (NASDAQ: ZION) was the one large bank which did not meet the criteria of the latest stress tests that the banks were rallying ahead of. What is interesting is that this...
ThinkstockIn the past, big banks and banks that took bailout money had to fret over each and every round of stress tests. That appears to be far from the case for the new 2014 stress tests due after...
Last week the EPA removed its restrictions on BP, allowing the company once again to conduct business with the federal government and giving the company the right once more to bid on leases in the...
Through a quirky legislative rule, a committee of the Arizona State Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would allow electric car maker Tesla Motors to sell its vehicles directly without having a...
ThinkstockThe U.S. Internal Revenue Service announced Wednesday that it owes about 919,000 U.S. taxpayers nearly $760 million in refunds for the 2010 tax year. To get what they are owed, all these...
The FAA and Boeing released a joint critical systems review of Boeing's 787-8 Dreamliner Wednesday. It was in response to problems with the plane's electrical system and batteries that caused the...
A Tuesday evening report from CNN cites an anonymous source who said that the U.S. Department of Justice and Toyota have reached a settlement in the criminal investigation of the sudden acceleration...
General Motors announced new recalls of 1.5 million cars on Monday, including SUVs, vans and Cadillacs, for defective airbags, brake parts and other problems.That was dded to the 1.6 million small...
Shares of Verisign were tanking Monday in the wake of the government's decision to give up its role overseeing the system of Web addresses and domain names that form the basic plumbing of the...
Courtesy of Tesla MotorsElon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) wrote in a Friday post on the company’s official blog that if anyone believes that the state of New Jersey’s ban on...
ThinkstockThe People’s Bank of China on Saturday expanded the trading band on the price it fixes for renminbi. Beginning Monday, the currency trading band is being doubled, from 1% to 2% on either...
Honda Motor Corp.Honda Motor Corp. (NYSE: HMC) plans to recall more than 886,000 Odyssey minivans manufactured in the company’s Alabama plant between 2005 and 2010. The cause of the recall is a...
ThinkstockSince the U.S. Department of Defense first created Arpanet, the Internet’s predecessor, in 1968, the U.S. has maintained control of the Internet’s IP numbering network, the domain name...
Courtesy Herbalife Ltd.Since he made his presentation on the business practices of Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) in China last Tuesday, Pershing Square Capital Management’s William Ackman has turned...