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The New York Stock Exchange said on Monday it is in talks with U.S. securities regulators to settle allegations that the exchange violated rules intended to promote fair competition.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has been winnowing his picks for Vice President in private, with most handicappers suggesting nominees who’ve held public office. How about Margaret (Meg) Whitman, CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), one of his fondest supporters?

A report by market technology firm Nanex LLC that attempts to explain just exactly what happened at Knight Capital last week shows the "crazy" underbelly of U.S. stock trading

Faulty instructions by air traffic controllers caused a near mid-air collision involving an American Airlines Boeing 777-200 and a U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo plane near New York City in January 2011, a federal report said.

Union Pacific Corp. (NYSE: UNP), the largest track network in the U.S., reached its highest stock price ever on Friday as it shifts its business to natural gas producers as coal shipments drop.

The Dallas Cowboys expect to compete for an NFC East title in 2012 with a revamped defense. Do they have enough to win their division?

Space enthusiasts gathered in Times Square very early on Monday morning to glimpse the first images from NASA's new Mars rover, Curiosity.

Adirondack State Park, the largest state-protected preserve in the contiguous United States, grew by 69,000 acres Sunday in the greatest single addition to the park in over a century.

On Sunday, tennis legend Serena Williams made history not only as the second woman to complete a career Golden Slam, but also as the first woman to do the crip walk after a historic win.

Sanya Richards-Ross, the wife of Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Aaron Ross, took home the gold medal in the 400-meters at the Olympics in London. Richards-Ross's win comes four years after an emotional loss left her unsatisfied with an Olympic bronze medal.

Mere days after a systems failure within the automated operations of one of its market-markers caused wild distortions in the New York Stock Exchange, a major European bourse is having its own version of a technical meltdown.

Oscar winner Natalie Portman has married Benjamin Millepied in the coastal California town of Big Sur, reports E! Online.

Knight Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: KCG), which lost $440 million last week when a trading program it had just installed went berserk, confirmed Monday it reached a $400 million rescue deal that will keep the big market maker in business but hammer existing investors.

The FBI, probing the Wisconsin Sikh Temple shooting, in which a gunman killed six and critically injured three others on Sunday, hinted that it could be an act of domestic terrorism. Meanwhile, the Sikh community in the U.S calls it a crime of "hate and ignorance."

Even before news of Apple's acquisition of fingerprint scanning company AuthenTec could take effect among technology enthusiasts, news of Apple considering another company, The Fancy, a growing e-commerce related Social Network is gathering pace.

Crude oil futures declined during the Asian trading hours Monday after surging the most in a month in the previous session on upbeat U.S. jobs data.

Sunday's Olympic Games saw several stunning performances, as Usain Bolt, Andy Murray, and more stunned audiences and secured their places at the 2012 London Games.

Macaulay Culkin was spotted at Natalie Portman's wedding on Saturday in the wake of unconfirmed reports that he had fallen into deep heroin addiction and rumors of his death circulating on the Internet.

NASA will be attempting one of its most impressive and technically challenging feats ever, as it tries to land the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars within hours. Obviously, Mars is pretty far away, which means you can't see it in person. So how best to watch the landing? Read on.

Marilyn is as great a legend as this country as ever produced – she shares eternal life with such luminaries as Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, John Wayne and Louis Armstrong.

Not only did this represent a grave violation of fair trade practices, but it also smacked of a naked ploy to consolidate their political bases (who, no doubt, agree with their views anyway).