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Russian President Vladimir Putin said leaders at the Ukraine peace talks in Minsk have agreed on a cease-fire from Feb. 15.
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Capital Account: Greg Ip explores the eurozone’s sovereign-debt troubles and finds that the ECB’s monetary stimulus has been crucial in giving peripheral countries some fiscal breathing room to bring down their debt ratios.
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While rivals retreat from riskier businesses, Goldman Sachs is sticking with its roots in trading, which bothers some investors.
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President Barack Obama asked Congress for new powers to wage military operations against the Islamic State militant group, kicking off a renewed national debate over the scope of wartime powers that should be afforded to the commander-in-chief.
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Sweden’s central bank cut its main interest rate into negative territory for the first time and announced a bond-buying program, as it joined a widening group of central banks trying out unconventional measures to battle low inflation.
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Bank of America used its government-backed U.S. banking subsidiary to finance controversial trades that helped hedge funds and other clients avoid taxes.
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Credit Suisse swung to profit in the fourth quarter, as the Swiss bank announced pay cuts for top executives and braced for challenges presented by the strengthened franc.
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GE said it would begin allowing groups of shareholders to put forth nominees to the company’s board, provided the candidates’ backers own at least 3% of GE shares for at least three years.
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Local banks financed little of the oil-drilling boom in Texas in recent years. But the banks remain vulnerable should production cutbacks in the wake of plunging prices hit their customers: the hotels, carwashes and other businesses that cater to oil workers.
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Longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Bob Simon has been killed in a New York City car crash, CBS said. He was 73 years old.
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A court sentenced Cho Hyun-ah, daughter of Korean Air Lines’ chairman, to one year in prison after finding her guilty of disrupting a flight in December over the way she was served macadamia nuts.
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Memex, developed by the U.S. military’s research and development arm, is a search engine on steroids. It returns sophisticated infographics that represent the relationships between Web pages.
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She’s all but certain to seek her party’s nomination, but there is some drama—and tension among Democrats—surrounding her delayed timetable in formally announcing that she will seek the presidency.
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The median sale price of an existing home was $208,700 last quarter, up 6% from a year earlier, according to the National Association of Realtors. That marked a quickening pace from the third quarter, when prices were up 4.8% from a year earlier.
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Designers shared sketches for their fall 2015 collections. The forecast includes flowy, wide-legged trousers, more ’70s redux, and plenty of plaid and houndstooth patterns.
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New York thinks it deserves everything, but right now it may be too fragile a town to host the All-Star Game
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A new study suggests U.S. stock-fund managers’ investment decisions are influenced by the investment decisions of other managers who live nearby.
THE EXPERTS: So-called robo-advisers are already bringing costs down, and large firms are offering some services at no charge.
In photos selected by Wall Street Journal editors on Wednesday, a 100-car pileup at a South Korean bridge kills at least two people, migrants surviving a shipwreck arrive on the Italian island of Lampedusa, Rio de Janeiro prepares for the carnival, and more.
Cobbled streets, 18th-century merchant houses and horse-drawn carriages abound in this colonial town in the north of the Philippines, a Unesco World Heritage site recently voted in an online poll as one of the “New Seven Wonders of the World.”
A sandstorm in the Middle East lashed Egypt, Israel and Lebanon, shrouding Cairo in dust for a second day and causing bad air pollution in Israel.
Incessant rain overnight triggered widespread flooding in the Indonesian capital, bringing traffic to a standstill.
Built in 1853, this historic mansion on 5.27 acres is in the center of town and listed for $8.5 million.
Options abound to freshen wardrobes this spring in a spectrum of hues, from clean, white silhouettes to a panoply of designs in deep plum, slate gray and crisp sky blue.