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Shares in one of the biggest natural gas companies in the U.S. were halted on Tuesday after plunging by half on a report the company could be about to go bankrupt. Financial news agency Bloomberg first reported that Chesapeake Energy is…

The Villages, a master-planned retirement community in central Florida, is the fastest-growing metropolitan area in the U.S., we learned from the 2020 Census. In a demographically changing and urbanizing America, this predominantly…

Treasury yields were slightly higher Wednesday, with the market largely holding steady after Tuesday’s cooler-than-expected reading of the U.S. August consumer-price index triggered a rally that gave long-end…

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Canada's housing market continued to show signs of a slow cool-down in August, as the number of sales ticked lower even as selling prices still headed higher compared to where they were a year ago. The Canadian Real Estate Association…

The other shoe has finally dropped on one lovelorn exec. The former chief financial officer of a high-end Massachusetts shoe maker has been sentenced to almost six years in prison for embezzling $30 million to help…

Here’s what you need to know:The S&P 500 erases its losses for the year as Wall Street’s rally continues.The U.S. economy entered a recession in February.The numbers are ambiguous, but the jobs report wasn’t rigged.The travel business…

Money manager Matt Patsky stood at the window of his hotel on the Portuguese island of Sao Miguel in March last year, looking out over the Atlantic, and thought: I’m not sure we can retire here after all. He told his husband, “I don’t…

France plunged into an unprecedented diplomatic crisis with the United States and Australia on Friday after it recalled its ambassadors from both countries over a trilateral security deal which sank a $40-billion French-designed…