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The United States posted its biggest monthly budget surplus in five years in April, the Treasury Department said Friday, adding that revenues are running at a record high so far this year, thanks to higher taxes and an improving economy. The April . .

This week, members of the United Nations ("U.N.") Working Group on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations are making an official visit to the United States as part of the Group's mandate to promote the effective implementation of the U.N. Guiding .

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Here's What Stock Market's 6 Categories Of Investors Are Doing Right Now - Taking a look at who is buying and who is selling can tell us something about the durability of the market's performance and what may lie ahead. Currently, there are six notable trends in buying and selling in the stock market. U.S. stocks are being .

Last week's disclosure by Ronald C. Machen Jr., the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, that his office had secretly seized telephone records of Associated Press reporters as part of a leak investigation surprised and shocked many . .

GREENSBORO, N.C., May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lorillard, Inc. (NYSE: LO), the third largest manufacturer of cigarettes in the United States, announced today that its Board of Directors amended the Company's existing $500 million share repurchase .

Nearly every U.S. business sector — advanced materials, electronics, pharmaceuticals and biotech, chemicals, aerospace, heavy equipment, autos, home products, software and defense systems — has experienced massive theft and illegal reproduction . .

Not long into Tim Cook's testimony, Congress began asking him for advice on how to change the tax code to encourage companies to use their cash to invest in the United States. Cook said that . Stock Repurchases Increased After Repatriation. Despite a . .

The dollar remained vulnerable, staying near lows against a basket of six major currencies which hit its lowest since late February at 81.331 on Wednesday, after the US Federal Reserve kept its plan to buy $85 billion in bonds each month, as was widely . .

Reassuring comments from a Federal Reserve official and better earnings from two big retailers helped push the stock market higher on Tuesday. . Home Depot shares rose 2.5 percent, to $78.71, after the company reported an 18 percent increase in . .