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IBTimes talks to Duke professor Campbell Harvey about the financial "nuclear option" that would have severe costs - for both sides.

Canadian franchise operators for the world's largest quick-service restaurant chain face accusations of preferring foreign temps over locals.

CBO also estimates that 12 million more nonelderly people will have health insurance in 2014 than if Obamacare had not become law.

The sanctions, not specified in the initial vote, will likely include more people under asset freezes and visa bans.

Amazon bought Zappos in 2009, and four years after the acquisition the company has adopted one of its unconventional human resource strategies.

The offer is unsolicited, with Endurance noting that Aspen's board and management have refused the proposal.

Unexpectedly, favored presidential candidate Joko Widodo's party won only 19 percent of the parliamentary seats.

Rebels in the eastern Ukraine town of Slaviansk Monday issued a bold call for Russian President Putin to help them.

The deal will add more than $221 billion in assets to TIAA-CREF's roughly $569 billion in assets under management.

Rather than being single-issue voters with narrow national interests, the survey suggests far-right Eurosceptics share a common set of values.

Nearly all of the everyday, normal vehicles purchased are connected by platforms and components. This practice isn’t limited to one class or line of vehicles, however.

Turkey Mon. urged Twitter execs to open an office and start paying taxes in the first direct talks since a short-lived two-week ban.

Earlier, Russia's Deputy Premier Arkady Dvorkovich went to China as part of a delegation to discuss cooperation in the energy sector.

A U.K. envoy also said there was no doubt that Moscow was behind the destabilization of eastern Ukraine.

Retail sales account for a third of U.S. consumer spending, and a sustained increase bodes well for GDP, earnings and job growth.

Citigroup's quarterly loss on troubled assets eased to $292 million from $798 million a year earlier - and that aided the bottom line.

In the past, GSK has faced charges of corruption in China and Iraq. In 2012, it paid $3 billion to the FDA after pleading guilty for malpractice.

After last week's volatile sessions, which ended with the markets losing a lot of ground, earnings and economic data should guide markets.

At the end of 2013, Citigroup had reduced its employee count by more than a fifth to 251,000 from 323,000 in 2008.

A total of 11 military aircraft, one civil aircraft and 15 ships were scheduled to search an area about 18,000 square miles in size Monday.

The focus may shift to trying to find wreckage using the sonar and cameras of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle.

Twitter may not be as active as it seems.

How to watch the 2014 MTV Movie Awards and red-carpet arrivals online through a live stream.

Major Chinese property developers have in recent months been buying increasingly large stakes in regional banks - a problematic asset addition.

The recall includes many of BMW’s most popular models, including the 1 Series, 3 Series and X3.

In what is being called an "act of aggression," pro-Russian activists seized government buildings and a police station, witnesses said.

Youthful demographics are fueling growth in the region's leisure and entertainment sector.

Though stocks rebounded this week, weaker earnings dragged the stocks down again.

A few things users should know about the new Samsung Galaxy S5.