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So far, the S&P 500 companies' earnings beat rate is lower than the historical average.

Three weeks ago, we asked IBTimes readers to vote for the places they most wanted to see before they died. Now we’re back with the top 20.

News Corp.’s shareholder meeting will be held on October 18 in Los Angeles.

Americans are obsessed with full-sized pickup trucks, but sales are shrinking and the competition's fierce between GM and Ford.

Sales should slowly recover worldwide, after several months of uneven growth and declines.

President Obama's administration wants to gradually phase out sanctions on Iran, but convincing Congress will be the hard part.

The two-year-old Tophatter could hit annual sales of $40 million this year, and it has signed up more than 1 million members.

The former NSA contractor claims he left the documents with a group of journalists from another country before he fled in June.

Military and Pentagon officials say the head count is likely to be fairly small.

The scare is over! The 2013 Village Halloween Parade, which attracts over two million people in New York City, will go on after the organization reached its fundraising goal on Kickstarter to make up for losses from Superstorm Sandy last year.

Seven years after pirate attacks hit the headlines off the coast of Somalia, they're back all over the Indian Ocean.

The more than two-week hiatus will have widespread effects for scientific research in the U.S.

The vulnerabilities hadn't been seen before, mainly since the protocols controlling the plants aren't connected to the rest of the Internet.

The Arab Oil Embargo in 1973 created a crisis that forced millions of Americans into hours-long lines at the tanks. Now the U.S. is the largest oil-producing country in the world.

Forrtune's relatively new annual list profiles 10 women entrepreneurs who've created innovative brands.

Drake said that he's not happy that people consistently tease him, calling him "lonely" and "emotional."

MSNBC President Phil Griffin promises that Ronan Farrow's new show will be "a game changer."

After the shutdown and default deal, the president is bringing the focus back to immigration reform.

The U.S. government shutdown was a PR bloodbath for Republicans, but it hasn’t hurt the party’s biggest cheerleader.

Unemployment and a shrinking labor force are among pressing U.S. economic problems that remain to be addressed.

The president praised Congress for ending the "twin threats," but added there "are no winners here."