Elizabeth Warren tells Wall Street: 'Bring it on'

The senator from Massachusetts said Monday that she will continue to call for financial reforms and for big Wall Street banks to be broken up, despite potential retaliation against Democratic candidates. Last week, Reuters reported that Citigroup...

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Biggest loser from the strong dollar: Emerging Markets

The dollar's rapid rally -- the fastest in 40 years -- is great for the American traveler, but it's painful for many foreign countries and big businesses that operate abroad. Emerging market countries are arguably getting the worst of it. "Emerging...

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Stocks: 3 things to know before the open

Click chart for in-depth premarket data. Get ready for an interesting day. Here are the three things you need to know before the opening bell rings in New York: 1. Oil in the spotlight: Traders are focusing on the oil market Tuesday in anticipation...

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How far Chinese moms will go to have U.S. babies

Some are even willing to commit visa fraud, lie to immigration officers and pay tens of thousands of dollars to shady middlemen -- as long as the payoff is a U.S. passport for their newborn. An underground "birth tourism" network that stretches...

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How Hong Kong's subway turns a $2 billion annual profit

The city's subway is the face of the Mass Transit Railway Corporation (MTR) -- a publicly traded company that pulled in $5.2 billion in revenue last year. With a $2 billion annual profit, the Hong Kong's subway is an anomaly among major rail networks....

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Elizabeth Warren tells Wall Street: 'Bring it on'

The senator from Massachusetts said Monday that she will continue to call for financial reforms and for big Wall Street banks to be broken up, despite potential retaliation against Democratic candidates. Last week, Reuters reported that Citigroup...

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Andrew Sullivan: Blogging nearly killed me

His prodigious output was supplemented by dispatches from readers, public debates with fellow bloggers and ruminations on everything from the Geneva Conventions to "South Park." Blogging was a medium -- and a lifestyle -- that he helped pioneer....

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Ford's big Lincoln Continental is coming back

This car has a big job: To regain for Lincoln the respect it once had, decades ago, as a luxury car brand. In recent years, Lincoln has mostly sold upgraded versions of Ford cars with little difference beyond the design and some added features. The...

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Stocks: 4 things to know before the open

Click chart for in-depth premarket data. U.S. stock futures are moving up, European markets are jumping by about 1%, and nearly all Asian markets closed the day with gains. Here are the four things you need to know before the opening bell rings...

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Half of Americans are saving next to nothing

For many of us, it's time to step up our savings plan. Roughly half of Americans are saving 5% or less of their incomes, including 18% that are not saving anything, according to a survey from Bankrate. Only about a quarter of people are saving...

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Ford's big Lincoln Continental is coming back

This car has a big job: To regain for Lincoln the respect it once had, decades ago, as a luxury car brand. In recent years, Lincoln has mostly sold upgraded versions of Ford cars with little difference beyond the design and some added features. The...

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Andrew Sullivan: Blogging nearly killed me

His prodigious output was supplemented by dispatches from readers, public debates with fellow bloggers and ruminations on everything from the Geneva Conventions to "South Park." Blogging was a medium -- and a lifestyle -- that he helped pioneer....

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The activist nun reforming profit-prisons

Mercy Investment Services Inc. is the investment fund for the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, an international religious order. The fund is managed by Sister Valerie Heinonen, a soft-spoken nun who's been buying shares in for-profit...

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Angie's List halts Indiana expansion over anti-gay law

CEO Bill Oesterle announced Saturday that the company had put its proposed campus expansion project in Indianapolis "on hold" following the passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Angie's List, a business-rating website, was expected to...

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'Things will not change' after sex bias verdict without push

Ellen Pao lost her sex bias suit against prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers on Friday when a San Francisco jury ruled that the firm did not discriminate against her. Pao, a former junior partner...

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Angie's List halts Indiana expansion over anti-gay law

CEO Bill Oesterle announced Saturday that the company had put its proposed campus expansion project in Indianapolis "on hold" following the passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Angie's List, a business-rating website, was expected to...

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The activist nun reforming profit-prisons

Mercy Investment Services Inc. is the investment fund for the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, an international religious order. The fund is managed by Sister Valerie Heinonen, a soft-spoken nun who's been buying shares in for-profit...

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'Things will not change' after sex bias verdict without push

Ellen Pao lost her sex bias suit against prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers on Friday when a San Francisco jury ruled that the firm did not discriminate against her. Pao, a former junior partner...

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Pebble Time Kickstarter project raised $20.3 million

It broke its first record on its first day, when it became the fastest project to raise $1 million -- in 49 minutes. A week later, it became the most-funded campaign in Kickstarter's history after receiving more than $13.3 million in pledges, besting...

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Google strikes back at Wall Street Journal - with a laughing baby

And this was no standard response. Google (GOOGL, Tech30) used playful animated GIFs to make seething points directed at the Journal and its parent company News Corp. Here's the back story. In 2013, the Federal Trade Commission decided not to...

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'Ask SeaWorld' marketing campaign backfires

So when it solicited questions about its animal care online as part of a new marketing campaign this week, it seemed to fuel critics rather than dissuade them. SeaWorld (SEAS) came under fire for its treatment of killer whales when the documentary...

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'Ask SeaWorld' marketing campaign backfires

So when it solicited questions about its animal care online as part of a new marketing campaign this week, it seemed to fuel critics rather than dissuade them. SeaWorld (SEAS) came under fire for its treatment of killer whales when the documentary...

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Google strikes back at Wall Street Journal - with a laughing baby

And this was no standard response. Google (GOOGL, Tech30) used playful animated GIFs to make seething points directed at the Journal and its parent company News Corp. Here's the back story. In 2013, the Federal Trade Commission decided not to...

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Pebble Time Kickstarter project raised $20.3 million

It broke its first record on its first day, when it became the fastest project to raise $1 million -- in 49 minutes. A week later, it became the most-funded campaign in Kickstarter's history after receiving more than $13.3 million in pledges, besting...

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Tim Cook to donate his fortune to charity

Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to donate his entire fortune to charity. Cook, who is close to becoming a billionaire, says he will pay for his nephew's college education, then donate the rest of his wealth to philanthropic projects, according to Fortune....

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6 'Matrix' inspired illusions from Oculus' chief scientist

Oculus chief scientist Michael Abrash had doubts too, until a special Keanu Reeves movie came along. "It was 'The Matrix' that made me believe it," he told an audience on Thursday at F8, Facebook's developer conference. The virtual reality wizard...

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Stocks: 4 things to know before the open

Click chart for in-depth premarket data. Here are four things you need to know before the opening bell rings in New York: 1. Another day of losses?: U.S. stock futures are edging lower, indicating all the major indexes could dip into the red...

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