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Court Says Silicon Valley Workers May Pursue Pay Collusion Case As a Class
Roughly 60,000 Silicon Valley workers won clearance to pursue a lawsuit accusing Apple Inc., Google Inc. and other companies of conspiring to drive down pay by not poaching each other's staff, after ...
Sept 11 Settlement Between American Air, Cantor Fitzgerald Approved
A federal judge on Monday approved a $135 million settlement between American Airlines Group Inc. and Cantor Fitzgerald over business and property losses suffered by the financial services company in ...
Stubbornly Low Inflation Holds Key to 2014 Fed Policy
Stubbornly weak inflation is shaping up as the wild card for U.S. monetary policy makers this year, with top Federal Reserve officials stumped by why it has lingered so low for so long and at odds as ...
Top Jury Awards in 2013
U.S. juries awarded three verdicts of $1 billion or more for the third straight year in 2013, topped by a $1.2 billion award against Dow Chemical Co., the largest ever in a price-fixing case. Second ...
West Virginia Spill Triggers Calls for Stronger Chemical Regulation
A chemical spill that left 300,000 people in West Virginia unable to drink their water is reviving calls for more stringent regulation of thousands of chemical storage sites in the U.S., especially ...
Merger of German Public-Sector Insurers Unlikely: Fitch
German public-sector insurers, which include Versicherungskammer Bayern and Provinzial Nordwest Holding AG, are unlikely to merge, Fitch Ratings said. "There is no requirement for such a high number ...
Natural Gas Exports Debated
The debate over exporting liquefied natural gas is intensifying as the Energy Department considers an array of applications to ship the fuel to Japan, India and other countries where prices are far ...
BlackRock Agreement with New York AG Ends Analyst Survey Program
BlackRock Inc., the world's largest asset manager, agreed to end its analyst survey program worldwide, as part of an agreement reached Wednesday with the New York Attorney General's office. The ...