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  • Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk talks at the Automotive World News Congress at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan, January 13, 2015. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

    The Big Threat That's Sending Tesla Shares Lower

    By Michael McDonald, Oilprice.com

    Elon Musk is a genius and a visionary who is almost single handedly changing the future of mankind through three different industries at once. With that said, it’s not clear if investors can easily...

  • Here’s the Type of Gun Americans Are Buying at a Record Pace

    By Chris Morris, CNBC

    Gun sales have never been hotter in the United States. In the past eight years, the number of people who own firearms has nearly doubled — with 2015 setting records, as 23.1 million people applied...

  • A sale sign is seen inside a Target store in Delta, British Columbia January 15, 2015. REUTERS/Ben Nelms

    Why Retailers Still Can’t Get Cyber Monday Right

    By Krystina Gustafson, CNBC

    It's been 365 days since retailers last had their sites flooded by bargain-crazed Cyber Monday shoppers. But sometimes, all the stress tests in the world aren't enough to prevent their pages from...

  • A camera drone operated by a civilian flies near the scene where two buildings were destroyed in an explosion in New York, in this file photo taken March 12, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Segar/Files

    Chasing Amazon, Walmart Takes to the Skies

    By Nathan Layne, Reuters

    Wal-Mart Stores Inc applied Monday to U.S. regulators for permission to test drones for home delivery, curbside pickup and checking warehouse inventories, a sign it plans to go head-to-head with...

  • Larry Born, a former Walmart employee from Park Forest, Illinois, takes part in a demonstration for higher wages and better working conditions, outside of a Walmart during Black Friday shopping in Chicago November 28, 2014. REUTERS/Andrew Nelles

    Here's Why Wal-Mart's Stock Tumbled This Week

    By Brian Sozzi, The Street

    "Now, when it comes to Wal-Mart, there's no two ways about it: I'm cheap," wrote Wal-Mart ( WMT - Get Report ) founder Sam Walton in his 1992 memoir "Sam Walton: Made in America." If the notoriously...

  • <p>This vehicle has the trademark, low slung style, including an abundance of glass in the sloping rear. Stunning and sporty in appearance, it’s every bit loyal to its historic past. The quintessential muscle car has 450 horsepower and goes from 0 to 60

    The Biggest Challenges for the Big 3 Automakers

    By Deepa Seetharaman and BEN KLAYMAN, Reuters

    General Motors Co ( GM.N ) named a new chief executive, Ford Motor Co ( F.N ) kept its old leader and Chrysler Group LLC's CEO averted a divisive public offering. And that was just in the last 30...

  • Target Cyber Attack May Be Tip of the Iceberg

    By JIM FINKLE and Mark Hosenball, Reuters

    Target Corp and Neiman Marcus are not the only U.S. retailers whose networks were breached over the holiday shopping season late last year, according to sources familiar with attacks on other...

  • Earnings Will Give Wall Street a Dose of Reality

    By Angela Moon, Reuters

    After the S&P 500's impressive 30 percent return in 2013, Wall Street will get a better picture of reality next week as the pace of companies reporting earnings picks up. A number of big banks...

  • Target

    Target Data Breach Impacted As Many As 110M People

    By Javier E. David and Izzy Best, CNBC

    Target disclosed on Friday that a mass information breach involved data belonging to up to 110 million individuals—a number far more extensive than originally believed. The big box retailer said that...

  • Hacker at the BBC Aimed to Sell Inside Access

    By JIM FINKLE, Reuters

    A hacker secretly took over a computer server at the BBC, Britain's public broadcaster, and then launched a Christmas Day campaign to convince other cyber criminals to pay him for access to the...