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After Greece failed yet again to reach a deal with European leaders, it is time for the Europeans to accept the fact that Greece simply wants out of much of its debt and already agreed-to austerity...
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Airbus has filed a complaint against the German government, alleging that it complied with requests by the U.S. National Security Agency to spy on European countries and businesses.
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Both houses of North Dakota's state legislature have passed a bill to lower the state's extraction tax on oil and to eliminate the current practice of tying the tax to the price of crude oil.
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Global military spending was down slightly in 2014 from the year before. Based on nominal military expenditure figures, these are the 10 countries with the largest military budgets.
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According to the White House, the Obamas made an adjusted gross income of $477,383 in 2014 and they paid $93,362 in federal income tax.
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At a signing ceremony Friday in Panama City, Boeing received a firm order for 61 of its new 737 MAX single-aisle jets, which carry a list price value of $6.6 billion.
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24/7 Wall St. wanted to revisit the lessons of force majeure, with a view shaped around the world of 2014, 2015 and the coming years.
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With the 2016 presidential primaries less than 12 months away, campaign season is well under way for candidates of both parties. In the last election, President Barack Obama won with about 51% of the...
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Analysts and investors began to see the value of Petrobras assets in light of the $70 billion mega-deal in which Royal Dutch Shell will acquire BG Group.
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Congress can kill the U.S. Export-Import Bank by simply doing nothing. If there’s one thing Congress does know how to do, that's it.
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A recent Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll shows that voters in the swing states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania now support legalization of marijuana use.
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ThinkstockCalifornia’s water shortage might not be new, but the efforts to deal with such shortages have taken a new turn. The Governor of California, Edmund G. Brown Jr. — Jerry Brown to the...
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When the Saudi Arabian Air Force began bombing targets in Yemen last week, the price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil for April delivery spiked.
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CIA World FactbookThe stock market may have tanked on Wednesday, but geopolitical risk from Yemen was one of the excuses that was used for the rally in oil on this day. It may simply have been an...
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For the first time since 2009, U.S. drivers topped 3 trillion miles driven in 2014, the second-highest total on record.
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