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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Congressman George Miller will appear at a congressional briefing on Tuesday on the so-called Walmart Economy.
A Tuesday vote in the U.S. Senate on the Keystone XL pipeline appears to be headed for passage but is still short of being filibuster-proof.
Who needs the Keystone XL at this point, and why? Who really benefits from moving some 830,000 more barrels of Canadian crude to the Gulf Coast?
The White House has released the start of President Obama's plan for what is being called a free and open Internet.
In the first six months of 2014, global governments requested data for nearly 50,000 user accounts from Facebook.
Oppenheimer has released its list of potential post-election winners in the medical device industry.
Change is in the air after the midterm elections have swung the balance of power back to the Republican party in Congress.
The Republican Party takeover over the U.S. Senate is guaranteed to increase political demands for approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.
ThinkstockBallot initiatives in four states and three cities could, if approved by voters, raise the minimum wage for more than 600,000 workers. Minimum wage hikes are on the ballot in the states of...
The outcome of the elections in Brazil are tamping down commodity prices in a serious way.
Petrobras is getting to demonstrate all over again just how bad it is when a nation is under a socialist regime.
courtesy of Tesla MotorsIn a move that was expected by everybody, Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan Tuesday signed legislation banning Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) from selling directly to...
Ukraine is on the brink of committing economic suicide after imposing a crippling tax on private gas producers, while parliament prepares to vote on next year's budget.
President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil won the first round of voting Sunday in Brazil’s national elections.
Petrobra, saw more than just a garden variety sell-off on Monday morning. The stock is tied to the Brazilian election more than it is to its own fundamentals.