SHANGHAI In the face of a "worrying" rise in protectionism, trade ministers from the world's major economies have agreed to cut trade costs, increase policy coordination and enhance financing, China's Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng said on Sunday.

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Q: I understand paying benefits to widows. But I don't understand paying benefits to divorcees. A woman who is divorced is not a widow.

(Repeats story for wider distribution). By Caroline Humer and Diane Bartz. NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, July 8 Aetna Inc executives met with top Justice Department antitrust officials on Friday to convince the government that asset sales it proposed would ...

Gap (NYSE:GPS) has been mercilessly punished in the past year or so, as its status as a dividend stock has recently been overshadowed by some pretty horrible numbers.

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is set to release second quarter of fiscal 2016 (2QFY16) earnings results on July 21. In this regard, MKM Partners opined that the consensus projections are too low, especially with regard to the international growth and ...

An even larger increase in the horizontal rig count than last week, with new rigs concentrated in the Permian and in shale producing regions.

(Adds comment, updates prices). * U.S. jobs surge in June to 287,000, briefly boosts dollar. * Euro falls to 2-week low; Swiss franc slides to 5-week trough.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Gov. Mark Dayton has pulled the plug on Essar Steel Minnesota's lucrative mineral leases on the Iron Range and turned to Cliff Natural Resources as a possible developer of the Nashwauk site.

Some 75,000 DTE Energy customers are without power, after a fierce band of storms whipped through southeast Michigan on Friday night.