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Oil prices are approaching last year’s highs as tensions increase over Iran’s nuclear program. The rise pushed gasoline prices on Friday to a national average […]

Stifel Financial Corp. hired Brett Marcus and Sam Frankfort of Needham & Co. and Sam Skinner of Jefferies Group Inc. as managing directors for the […]

You’ve probably heard of Groupon — but not Groupigg, a St. Louis-based firm piggybacking on Groupon’s success in the daily deals marketplace.
That’s because Groupigg plays […]

3M Co. said Wednesday that chief operating officer Inge Thulin will be the company’s new president and CEO. He replaces George Buckley, who is retiring.
Thulin’s […]

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The U.S. budget deficit will shrink this year to $1.1 trillion, the Congressional Budget Office said today in a report sure to inflame the election-year […]

Europe’s crippling debt crisis dominated the world’s foremost gathering of business and political leaders, but for the first time the growing inequality between the planet’s […]

New orders for U.S. manufactured goods rose in December and a gauge of future business investment rebounded, showing the economy ended the year with […]

The founder of the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store chain has died.
The company said Monday that Dan Evins _ known as Danny _ died on […]

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