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  • A specialist trader is reflected on his screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange August 25, 2015. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

    Wall Street Looks to Critical March Jobs Report

    By Patti Domm, CNBC

    A truckload of data will hit markets in the coming week, but it's the jobs report Friday when Wall Street is closed that will be the most important and possibly have the most lasting impact. The...

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    The Secret Success of Today’s Biohackers

    By Ellen Jorgensen, Techonomy

    In a laboratory in New York City, molecular biologist Roy Buchanan is finishing up at the bench for the day. It is eight o’clock in the evening, and while late night work is a familiar scenario for...

  • Stocks Have Scores of Reasons for New Volatility

    By Patti Domm, CNBC

    Stocks, stuck in their own zigzag pattern, remain vulnerable to the whims of unusually volatile currencies in the week ahead. As financial markets adjust to the Fed's latest guidance on rates,...

  • U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees work during a guided media tour inside the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center in Arlington, Virginia in this file photo taken on June 26, 2014. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

    Hack Attacks Mean More Cyber Firms Will Go Public

    By Liana B. Baker, Reuters

    Rapid7, LogRhythm and Mimecast are joining a growing list of cybersecurity firms planning to go public in 2015 to capitalize on investor interest following a spate of hacker attacks, according to...

  • Why the Military Wants to Restore Your Online Privacy

    By Patrick Tucker, Defense One

    The average, technologically connected American worker produces some 5,000 megabytes of digital data a day, enough to fill nine CD-ROMs. Only a small fraction of it is stored permanently or is...

  • The Powerful New Security Threat to Data

    By JIM FINKLE, Reuters

    A newly discovered bug in widely used Web encryption technology has made data on many of the world's major websites vulnerable to theft by hackers in what experts say is one of the most serious...

  • Your Identity May Be Stolen at Your Next Doc Visit

    By Jennifer Schlesinger and Sheila Dharmarajan, CNBC

    Could your identity be stolen at your next doctor's appointment? About 30 million Americans have had their personal health information breached or inadvertently disclosed since 2009, according to...

  • China Blames U.S. for Rise in Hacking Attacks

    By Ben Blanchard and Li Hui and Paul Carsten, Reuters

    Hacking attacks on Chinese computers in 2013 rose by more than half compared with the previous year, with attacks coming from the United States making up a significant proportion, China's top...

  • Broadening the Discussion about Economic Growth

    By Mark Thoma

    Macroeconomic policy can be divided into two types, stabilization policy that attempts to keep the economy as close as possible to full employment, and growth policy that tries to make the economy...

  • March 11, 2014

    Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 Crashed into Indian Ocean

    By The Conversation Staff, The Conversation

    Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has confirmed that Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, with no survivors. In a press conference, Razak said new information...