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  • Millionaires in North America Regain Top Spot From Asia

    Updated 3 minutes ago

    North America reclaimed the top spot with the most millionaires last year, beating Asia as the world’s ultra-rich pushed global wealth to a record high, according to a report by Cap Gemini SA and Royal Bank of Canada.

  • Hitler Awaits Rowers After They Beat Ivy League: Books

    Updated 2 hours, 16 minutes ago

    Before I read about “The Boys in the Boat” being optioned by Hollywood or compared to “Seabiscuit,” I was already envisioning it on the big screen.

  • Women May Get Into Augusta Easier Than Energy CEO Role

    Updated 15 minutes ago

    Women may have better odds of getting a membership at Augusta National Golf Club than becoming the chief executive officer of an energy company in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.

  • Keystone XL Pipe Shuns Infrared Sensors to Detect Leaks

    Updated 2 hours, 20 minutes ago

    TransCanada Corp., which says Keystone XL will be the safest pipeline ever built, isn’t planning to use infrared sensors or fiber-optic cables to detect spills along the system’s 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometer) path to Texas refineries from fields in Alberta.

  • Barclays Sells Largest Structured Note Tied to Facebook Shares

    Barclays Plc sold $25.2 million of one-year notes tied to shares of Facebook Inc., the largest such offering since the stock started trading publicly 13 months ago.

  • Keystone Seen Failing to Sop Up Canada Oil Glut

    Updated 2 hours, 28 minutes ago

    Even if U.S. President Barack Obama approves the Keystone XL pipeline, Canadian crude oil probably will remain the cheapest in the world, hampering expansion of the country’s largest export industry.

  • Gold Futures Decline to Three-Week Low on Stimulus Bets

    Gold futures fell to a three-week low on speculation that the Federal Reserve may signal a reduction of U.S. economic stimulus. Palladium dropped to the cheapest in more than a month as European car sales plunged.

  • U.S. Considers Exporting More Oil for First Time Since ’70s

    Updated 2 hours, 14 minutes ago

    The U.S. oil boom is moving Congress closer than it has been in more than three decades to easing the ban on exporting crude imposed after the Arab embargo.

  • Boeing Sees Larger 787 With Chance to Boost Orders by 60%

    Updated 42 minutes ago

    Boeing Co. said its stretched 787 Dreamliner promises to match sales of the smallest variant, boosting the plane’s order tally as much as 60 percent, as it expanded its wide-body lineup to blunt an Airbus SAS challenge.

  • Arnold & Porter, Skadden, Cravath, Willkie: Business of Law

    Arnold & Porter LLP’s Deborah Feinstein was named director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition by FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, who also named six other senior staff members with consumer protection and antitrust law experience.

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