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Financial regulators are taking a harder line on exchanges amid concerns over their ability to police the markets they operate, as the SEC prepares to hit Nasdaq OMX with a record penalty.
Swarming by daytraders around a small number of stocks such as Tesla and Netflix can supercharge moves in the shares, both up and down.
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The bank sent a letter to shareholders urging them to reject a proposal to split the chief executive and chairman roles held by James Dimon.
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Pilot Flying J CEO Jimmy Haslam III asked a group of trucking industry officials to work with the truck-stop operator to settle diesel-fuel rebate claims instead of fighting it in court.
Retailers don't always agree on which Bangladesh garment factories should be avoided. Some factories that Wal-Mart has banned are being used by other large retailers.
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Wal-Mart's net profit rose 1.1% but same-store sales at its namesake U.S. stores fell for the first time in seven quarters. The retailer said its customer remains "stretched."
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Caterpillar said it has reduced the cost of its controversial purchase of a Chinese mining equipment firm that prompted the U.S. machinery giant to take a big write down following alleged accounting "irregularities."
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Kohl's first-quarter earnings fell 4.5%, hurt by slightly lower sales, but the CEO offered up hope, saying, "There's a lot of pent-up demand for spring merchandise out there."
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Executives at Sony's entertainment arm bristled at an activist investor's suggestion that it lags its peers in the film, television and music businesses.
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Dell's investor base is shifting ahead of a shareholder vote on the company's proposed $24.4 billion buyout, as the computer maker posted an expected drop in quarterly profit.
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On the eve of Facebook's IPO anniversary Saturday, how the company tackles revenue is one of the biggest challenges in its short life as a public company.
Could facial-recognition technology, combined with the camera on Google's augmented-reality glasses, identify and report on people's location? Eight congressmen want to know.
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Laurene Powell Jobs has taken on a public role, backing one of the most contentious causes in the U.S. today: immigration reform.
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Eight members of Congress asked Google Chief Executive Larry Page to make assurances about privacy safeguards for the company's high-profile Google Glass device.
The former UBS and Citigroup trader known as "Rain Man" finally has someone to shelter him from the storm of the Libor scandal: his wife.
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Sina said expects its alliance with Alibaba to help it make money off its Weibo service, after a reporting a loss for the first quarter.
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The sluggishness of the U.S. economy is driving down inflation, leaving companies unable to increase prices and raising doubts about the durability of the recovery.
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Cancer experts said Angelina Jolie's decision to have a preventive double mastectomy should encourage women to look at their family history. But they cautioned against the need for all to routinely order a genetic test.
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A group of parents vying to get their children into New York City's gifted-and-talented programs filed a lawsuit to try to halt the admissions process and force the city to change its admissions policies.
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J.P. Morgan Chase sent a formal demand letter to Bloomberg this week, asking the company to show logs of all staff members who searched activities of J.P. Morgan subscribers since 2008.
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Corporate directors kept CEO pay largely flat in 2012, for a second consecutive year. The compensation of CEOs at 300 big U.S. companies rose a median 3.6% to $10.1 million, a Hay Group/WSJ analysis found.
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