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Norway's massive pension fund reported negative returns for the first half of the year, citing "major fluctuations" in equity markets over the period.

It's also introducing two new radio stations, Apple Music Hits and Apple Music Country.

Walmart's e-commerce sales in the U.S. shot up by 97% as customers had packages shipped their homes and used curbside pickup.

Bernie Sanders and former first lady Michelle Obama headlined the first night of the all-virtual Democratic National Convention.

If you equate investing with gambling, you may unwittingly cut into your money's ability to keep pace with inflation.

A limited supply of the right kinds of Covid-19 tests has hampered the U.S. response to the coronavirus since the very beginning, public health specialists say.

U.S. homebuilding picked up for a third straight month in July in the latest sign the housing sector is emerging as one of the few areas of strength in an economy suffering a record slowdown because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The coronavirus-induced economic recession is disproportionately affecting women in the workforce. Here are some tips on how to navigate the job market.

Amazon intends to hire staff across Dallas, Detroit, Denver, New York (Manhattan), Phoenix, and San Diego.

The price of gold is at a record, and even Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway got in on the action. But gold traded down last week, and history says when that happens, buy the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Home Depot's profit and U.S. same-store sales soared 25% in the quarter as consumers visited the retailer more and spent more money.

Foreign firms looking to move their manufacturing processes outside of China in the wake of coronavirus could face $1 trillion in costs over five years, according to new Bank of America research.

This is the fourth electric-vehicle company to use a SPAC to go public since March. Nikola, which plans to sell hydrogen fuel-cell trucks and all-electric pickups, merged with a SPAC named VectoIQ Acquisition ahead of its IPO.

The big just keep getting bigger. Apple, the largest publicly traded company in the world, is nearing a $2 trillion market cap.

Turkey and Greece are at loggerheads over competing claims to energy reserves in contested Eastern Mediterranean waters.

The former first lady's speech on the first night of the Democratic National Convention painted a grim picture of America. "If you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me, they can; and they will," she said.

Up to 3.3 million homes in California may lose power Monday as part of rolling blackouts to ease pressure on the state's electric grid as a dayslong heat wave engulfing the West Coast creates an energy shortage, according to the operator of the grid.

The coronavirus has infected more than 21.9 million people across the world as of Tuesday, killing at least 774,661 people.

The U.S. Virgin Islands is closing its doors to tourists again, and plans to reopen Bali, Hawaii and the Cayman Islands hang in limbo. From the Caribbean to French Polynesia, island destinations are changing tourism plans to cope with rising Covid-19 infections from within and around the globe.

The Department of Commerce tightened rules around Huawei's ability to obtain critical semiconductors, a move which could deal a "lethal blow" to the Chinese technology giant, according to one analyst group