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According to the report, manufacturers indicated that both domestic and worldwide external markets had been sources of incoming new work and last month also saw new export orders expand at the quickest rate in one year. Markit, which compiled the PMI...

Hardware upgrades, including a faster display that allows for smoother zooming and scrolling, will come into play as well. The lack of innovation in Apple's premium iPhone, MacBook, and iPad series has invited wrath from the consumers.

Brauer added that nearly every large automaker is expected to post a decline for the month, even as they ramp up incentives and as truck and SUV sales remain strong. Ford's overall sales fell 8 per cent to 214,482. Nissan Motor Co. said its sales f...

Unlike Tesla, another Musk company that has proven itself at least preliminarily, SpaceX is still highly experimental, and it faces competition from another tech billionaire: Jeff Bezos's space exploration company Blue Origin. The rocket was stil...

Chances that the upcoming meeting among major oil producers in late September would yield any action to reduce the global glut appeared minimal after Saudi Arabia's energy minister said last week that he does not believe any "significant intervention...

Both Irish authorities and Apple have repeatedly denied breaching state aid rules. The tax repayment order, by far the largest in the EU's history, follows a three-year inquiry into whether Dublin's tax breaks for Silicon Valley titan Apple amoun...

At 9:48 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was down 13.36 points, or 0.07 percent, at 18,489.63. Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer, in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Tuesday, said the USA job market is close to full strength and th...

The government would consider investment offers on a build-own-operate or build-operate-transfer basis for the refineries, which are located in Kirkuk, in northern Iraq , and the southern regions of Samawa, Kut and Basra, the spokesman said .

Michael Huerta, head of the Federal Aviation Administration, said at a news conference that the rules governing the operation of small commercial drones are created to protect safety without stifling innovation. The drone association expects the indu...

Fox in a filing in NY state court in Manhattan also said Tantaros signed an agreement to keep employment-related disputes out of court and asked a judge to send her August 22 lawsuit to arbitration. Fox News countered that it suspended Ms. Tantaros...

But how much Clinton can do depends on finding willing partners in Congress and among Republican governors - a real political challenge. There have been dozens if not hundreds of news articles about Aetna leaving the Affordable Health Care Act'...

With the money from the loan, Amtrak will purchase 28 new trains for the Northeast Corridor's Acela service between Boston and Washington, D.C., which would expand its capacity by 40%. Amtrak operates more than 300 trains daily - at speeds up to 15...

Tesla has announced new versions of its electric Model S and Model X cars with faster acceleration and a longer battery range . History books have been rewritten once again as Tesla can lay claim to the new Model S P100D being not on...

SolarCity chief executive Lyndon Rive and chief technology officer Peter Rive are each buying another US$17.5 million of the US$124 million offer, according to the SolarCity filing. SolarCity has been under intense pressure to slash its expen...

The company had revenue of $1815.80 million for the quarter, compared to analysts expectations of $1887.56 million. The company expects earnings of $7.60 to $7.75 a share, excluding some items. The stock has a market capitalization of $16.54 bill...

US stocks were little changed on Monday as a drop in oil prices that weighed on the energy sector was offset with a strong showing by biotech stocks. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Alexion Pharmaceuticals all were up 3 perc...

Senior Olympic official Pat Hickey is being held in a notorious Rio prison following his arrest over alleged illegal sales of tickets for the games. The Rio force says Hickey's legal team unsuccessfully claimed that the Irishman was being illegally...

That is reassuring for investors still baffled as to why Mr Rajan, a former International Monetary Fund chief economist with a good record as head of the RBI, was effectively sacked by Mr Modi. Swamy, who has been critical of Rajan's policy of not lo...

Today's results showed participation in Stem subjects remained popular, with a growth in participation by girls in ICT, mathematics, biology and chemistry. With 55 per cent of A-levels taken were awarded A*- B grades and a 10 per cent increase gained...

Christie spokesman Brian Murray told the Times the governor had not been aware of the tax dispute and, therefore, he could not comment on the terms of the settlement. Christie was sworn in as governor on January 2010. Trump and Christie met in ...

But those are presumably left behind rather than indicating something in the future, since it is unlikely that the team would choose to release the game for older consoles. On CPUs with 8 threads, performance has also been significantly improved . ...

Clinton criticized her opponent, Donald Trump for not releasing his returns, as presidential candidates have done for decades. But the billionaire Trump has declined to release his, arguing that his tax returns for the past several years are bein...

Chinese credit data was well-received and there was hope for a pending announcement of a trading link between Shenzhen and Hong Kong. But markets in Hong Kong, Sydney, Wellington and Kuala Lumpur climbed . The British pound slumped to a fresh thre...

A stock market rally since late June has pushed the S&P; 500 index up 7.0 percent in 2016, helped by better-than-expected quarterly earnings and low interest rates, but some investors are anxious about high valuations. Mattress Firm vaulted more than ...

It might just be acquiring a lot of old legacy contracts for hardware and services as well. The high performance computing industry, an $11 billion market, is expected to have a compound annual growth rate of 6 percent to 8 percent in the next few ...

A recent Rasmussen polls found that 67 percent of likely voters think that all presidential candidates should make at least their latest tax returns public. Mike Pence, the IN governor and Trump's running mate, has not made public his tax data duri...

To the frustration of Mr Trump's aides and fellow Republicans, the celebrity businessman has often proven unable to let go of a bad story , often instead fuelling it - like he did this week when he escalated a row with the parents of a killed USA ...

Fulmer pitched a complete game shutout against the Texas Rangers Sunday afternoon. Darvish gave up a homer and a double after the error, and a second homer followed after he was pulled, resulting in a four-run inning for Detroit. "We did a nice jo...