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Fighting around the Tripoli airport has led to 22 deaths.

Wall Street firms are close to buying a stake in the instant-messaging startup Perzo Inc. as they pursue an alternative to Bloomberg LP.

Growth in China’s services sector slipped to a six-month low in July as new orders rose at their weakest rate in at least a year.

As the Swiss agree to more transparency in the banking system, capital is fleeing to other tax havens.

Great Pacific Securities, a California institutional broker-dealer, is suing Barclays over its "dark pool" practices.

Relations between Moscow and Brussels have deteriorated since the EU imposed sanctions on Russia over its involvement in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatists are fighting government forces.

French police have lost 112 pounds of cocaine after busting a drug ring just a month ago.

Shares of Procter & Gamble Co (PG.N), the world's largest maker of household products, rose 3 percent to $79.65 and helped to support the Dow and S&P 500 after it said it could sell about half of its brands in the next two years and cut jobs.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa in New York criticized the decision by Latin America's No. 3 economy to default on $29 billion in debt earlier in the week rather than pay the holdouts as ordered.

U.S. magazine publisher Time Inc. will report its first financial results as a separate company. Here’s what we hope to hear.

Researchers think that open data could mean trillions in economic growth.

Could legal marijuana help the small California city of San Bernardino after bankruptcy?

PR giant Edelman doesn't know the whereabouts of Steven Cao, head of its China operations.

The employment-to-population (EPOP) ratio tells you more about the U.S. economic recovery than the "new jobs" numbers.

The former home of the late Michael Jackson has been restored, and its investment-firm owner appears to be prepping it for sale.

That might defy logic, but there's actually a good reason for that puzzling metric from today's U.S. report on labor conditions.

The number of unemployed Americans changed little in July.

July marked the sixth straight month that employment has expanded by more than 200,000 jobs.

Investors look to payrolls for insight into rate policy.

If the Fed raises interest rates next year as expected, it will raise the costs of buying a car and could trigger a slowdown in demand.

China's recovery was broad based with 10 out of the 13 sub-indices pointing to improvement from the previous month.

The unemployment rate likely held at a six year-low of 6.1 percent, but could surprise on the downside.

India has imposed a record 10 percent duty on gold imports, prompting smugglers to think of innovative ways to bring the metal into the country.

Oregon will likely legalize recreational marijuana in November, but economists wonder if people will buy it.

Several hundred claims are expected to be filed at the start of a GM-financed program being launched Friday to compensate victims of a faulty ignition switch on some of its vehicles, lawyers say.

“Doesn't the SEC have an interest in what the truth is?”

Now the largest economy in Africa, Nigeria's lasting progress is only discouraged by Boko Haram's pervasive violence.

Families are spending more out-of-pocket on school, and report higher enrollment in community colleges, according to Sallie Mae survey.

Weak U.S. data contributed to the bearish tone as jobless claims rose more than expected in the latest week.