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An obscure melon once cultivated by Buddhist monks in China to sweeten tea could give the $8 billion U.S. diet soda industry a shot at winning back consumers concerned about artificial ingredients. You won't find monk fruit in any of...

With the U.S. Federal Reserve finally announcing it will start tapering its stimulus, removing a big uncertainty in the market, can Wall Street expect a stronger finish to the year? Not really. The "Santa Claus rally" is a seasonal anomaly...

After buying and remodeling a home, Karin Gilles and her husband, Dave Muilenburg, are not splurging on holiday gifts this year - no matter how drastically retailers slash prices to lift sales in a shopping season that peaks this...

The government forecast on Saturday that Japan's real gross domestic product will grow by 1.4 percent for the fiscal year starting March 2014, slowing from an expected 2.6 percent growth for the current year as a planned sales tax...

China aims to start building at least 6 million units of public housing next year, state media said on Saturday, reinforcing a government effort to supply more low-cost homes to counter record property prices. But next year's target is lower...

The Acting U.S. Consul-General in Lagos, Mrs Dehab Ghebreab, on Thursday urged Nigerians to always examine the newly introduced $100 note in any transaction. Ghebreab spoke with journalists at the Launch of the new note at the office of the...

The Bank of Japan kept monetary policy steady on Friday and maintained its view that the economy is recovering moderately, encouraged by growing signs the benefits of its massive stimulus are spreading through broader sectors of the economy. As widely...

Top executives and directors at some major U.S. companies may have less sway over votes on chief executive officer compensation and other shareholder matters if a campaign by a number of investor activists succeeds. For the 2014 annual meeting season,...

(L-R) ROMANIA'S PRESIDENT TRAIAN BASESCU, PORTUGAL'S PRIME MINISTER PEDRO PASSOS COELHO, CYPRUS' PRESIDENT NICOS ANASTASIADES, GERMANY'S CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL, EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESIDENT JOSE MANUEL BARROSO, FINLAND'S PRIME MINISTER JYRKI KATAINEN AND ITALY'S PRIME MINISTER ENRICO LETTA Europe's efforts to form...

European shares rallied on Thursday after the Federal Reserve sugar-coated the decision to start winding down its crisis-era stimulus with a promise to keep record low interest rates in place even longer than previously signaled. After months of agonizing, investors...