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Both sides found reasons to pull the trigger on the $130 billion sale of Vodafone’s 45 percent stake in the largest U.S. wireless operator.

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Swiss banks that seek to avoid prosecution for fostering tax evasion through secret accounts held by U.S. clients face penalties of as much as 50 percent of the value of those assets.

Hardly a week goes by without a new report about a government investigation of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and how much money the bank might have to pay because of some alleged violation of the law.

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Orders for durable goods dropped in July by the most in almost a year, calling into question the strength of the projected pickup in U.S. growth.

Restaurant sales contracted in June and July, even as spending on other discretionary categories such as automobiles and homes grew, a sign some Americans remain budget conscious.

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Don’t start writing housing’s obituary just yet.

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The amount is enough to erase everything the six biggest U.S. banks earned for 2012.

BP lost a renewed bid to suspend payments from the court-supervised program administering its settlement of claims tied to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

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Bank of America Corp.’s Merrill Lynch unit has agreed to pay $160 million to settle a discrimination lawsuit filed by black financial advisers.

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The expansion will accelerate in the second half of 2013, according to a Bloomberg survey.

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Consumer confidence unexpectedly improved in August as Americans grew more optimistic about employment opportunities and the outlook for the economy.