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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...

  • Dimon Can’t Avoid $380M Third-Quarter Loss

    By DAVID HENRY, Reuters

    JPMorgan Chase & Co on Friday posted its first quarterly loss under Chairman and Chief Executive Jamie Dimon as a tangle of legal and regulatory probes cost the biggest U.S. bank $7.2 billion...

  • Why Your Fast Food Isn't Healthier Than Before

    By Futurity Org, Futurity

    The overall calorie and sodium levels in main entrées offered by top U.S. chain restaurants remained the same from 2010 to 2011, despite many “healthy” menu updates. “Restaurant menus did not get any...

  • Buffett: Threat of Default Won’t Work Long Term

    By Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC

    History will judge the Troubled Asset Relief Program more positively than people do now, Warren Buffett said on CNBC Thursday, five years to the day since the financial bailout program was signed...

  • 3 Corporate Dress Codes You Won't Believe

    By Carol Lobello, TheWeek.com

    Earlier this month, Newsweek employees got a surprise when they officially joined their new parent company, International Business Times : The IBT Employee Handbook, complete with an aggressive...

  • U.S. Mall Security, a $350B Industry, Beefs Up

    By Scott Cohn, CNBC

    The images of the four-day siege at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, are from half a world away, but they hit painfully close to home in the United States, which has more than 800 regional...