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The marriage of square burgers and roast beef sandwiches is about to end.
Wendy’s/Arby’s Group said Monday that it will sell a majority stake in its […]

Tao Jingun’s graceful wooden fishing boat sits atop a vast, shell-studded basin that was the bottom of Poyang Lake just months ago but now is […]

Asian markets were sharply lower Monday amid signs of U.S. economic sluggishness and escalating worries about Europe’s debt crisis after Italy and Greece were slapped […]

President Barack Obama is reassuring the public that jobs and the economy are his top priority.
At the end of a historic and emotionally charged week […]

European producer-price inflation unexpectedly accelerated to the fastest in 2 1/2 years in March, adding to concerns that surging energy costs will feed through to […]

Russia’s central bank may leave its main interest rates unchanged today, allowing a stronger ruble to tame price growth and relying on higher reserve requirements […]

As most Ontario residents slept between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. on April 10, they unknowingly deposited a credit of $228,625.86 in the accounts of […]

Fiat boosted its ownership stake in Chrysler Group LLC Tuesday as the Italian automaker met several benchmarks set by the U.S. government.
Fiat’s stake in Chrysler […]

What happens when you apply an 1884 law to BlackBerries? Mass confusion.
The Antideficiency Act, passed by Congress during Chester Arthur’s administration, prevents non-essential federal […]

Shoppers emptied store shelves, traffic snarled with stoplights knocked out and drivers waited in long lines to buy gasoline in a new wave of anxiety […]