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Most people who oppose socialized medicine do so on the grounds that it is moral and...

The housing market showed further signs of stabilising during June with a 23% jump in the number of mortgages taken out by people buying a home, figures have revealed. Around 45,000 mortgage were adv...

SHANGHAI, Aug 11 (Reuters) - China's primary aluminium output in July rose 1.3 percent on the month to 1.068 million tonnes, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday. July's refined copper production edged up 0.2 percent from a month earlier to

The dollar edges down against its major counterparts in Asian trading Tuesday.

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Can Rupert Murdoch save the newspaper industry by making people pay to read the news online? Probably not, though his reputation as a financial wizard (he is many times a billionaire) has bewitched a lot of people into believing he...

Yahoo's Doug Cutting, the man who helped create Hadoop which is the same technology behind Cloudera, the startup he will be working for. Sounds quite obvious and he will be working as an architect for the firm in September. Now was this action a retaliation to the search deal with Microsoft? Definitely not and which is something Cutting himself thought many would think. That's just one of the many who have willingly left the search firm with reports of more cuts coming in for the 400 or so people in its search team. Many would be hired by Microsoft but an even bigger number will have to prepare their CVs for a new job. To be honest, Yahoo appears to have a very high level of tolerance when it comes to execs leaving the company. Of course there is nothing it can do if someone says they are done with it, but still doesn't it mean that it will gradually be left with no one who has given the web entity years of dedication? Tags: exec, yahoo Related posts Yahoo! Gallery follows Geoc

European stock markets opened higher, though investors remained cautious ahead of the key Federal Reserve meeting this week.

News outlets try to help people sort through what's real and what's not in the health overhaul debate. The New York Times reports in a 'primer on the details of health reform' that Republican criticism of a government-run insurance plan to compete with private health insurance as 'socialized medicine' 'seems overblown,' it reports.

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Shares in Hong Kong were little changed in early trading, while those in Shanghai edged slightly higher as investors reacted to a barrage of economic data for July, includin...