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Steven R. Appleton, chairman and chief executive of Micron Technology died Friday when the high-performance airplane he was piloting crashed at Boise, Idaho's airport.
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Caterpillar said it will close a locomotive plant in London, Ontario, following a lockout, eliminating about 450 jobs that mostly paid twice the rate of a U.S. counterpart.
Goldman Sachs cut CEO Lloyd Blankfein's stock bonus for the first time since the financial crisis, the latest sign that Wall Street executives are paying for a year of mixed financial performance.
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Regulators in Switzerland and the U.K. stepped up pressure on Swiss and foreign banks, extending a probe into alleged manipulation of interest rates and disclosing possible action against UBS in a trading scandal.
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Some Apple devices were unavailable for sale briefly on Friday in Germany, as part of a patent tussle with Motorola Mobility.
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Toyota said it plans to sell 9.58 million vehicles globally, including those by its subsidiaries—a rise of 21% from last year.
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Walgreen's same-store sales slid 4.6% in January as the drugstore chain's prescriptions sales were battered by the loss of major customer Express Scripts.
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A computer hacker group continued a wave of attacks against Brazilian financial websites, hampering the sites of Citigroup and other prominent institutions.
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Orange-juice futures settled lower as traders discounted the prospects for a ban on juice imports into the U.S. It appears they weren't off the mark.
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The two reactors at the San Onofre nuclear-power station will stay shut down this weekend while federal safety officials investigate why critical—and relatively new—equipment is showing signs of premature wear.
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Rate the best and worst advertisements of Super Bowl XLVI.
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Russian investor Yuri Milner stands to reap a multibillion-dollar windfall from his early bet on Facebook stock. But in return, he has agreed to terms that handcuff what he can do with his Facebook shares.
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As more financing and private-equity investments begin to flow into residential real estate, some mothballed development plans are being revitalized.
A quirky and complex investment class called master limited partnerships has been one of the market's best performers of late.
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Aon's fourth-quarter profit rose 20% as the insurance brokerage and consulting firm logged solid results in its human-resources business and benefited from restructuring.
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The U.S. economy added more jobs in January than in any month since early last year, pushing down the jobless rate to a level not seen since Obama's first full month in office.
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AstraZeneca announced it will eliminate another 7,300 jobs, bringing its total cuts over the past five years to nearly 30,000.
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Pemex has filed a motion to add ConocoPhillips and subsidiaries of Shell PLC to a 2010 suit that seeks damages against companies that had allegedly purchased natural-gas condensate that Pemex said was stolen from its operations in northern Mexico.
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The connoisseur, the casual and the curious-yet-clueless: Find your level.
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Any merger between Glencore and Xstrata would require close cooperation between their respective chief executives, who have worked together before on deals that have enriched them and their companies, even as they competed in the rough-and-tumble world of mining and commodities.
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