Regulators are proposing new procedures to monitor high-speed trading more closely in response to wild market swings brought on by a series of technical breakdowns. More than 70 percent of all trading today is automated, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Tuesday as it voted unanimously in favor of new… Read More

Hillary Rodham Clinton wants voters to know she is no friend of Wall Street. But Wall Street has frequently been a friend to her. In the 18 months prior to announcing her second campaign for president, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination addressed private equity investors in California and New… Read More

A nonprofit founded to combat obesity says the $1.5 million it received from Coke has no influence on its work. But emails just obtained by The Associated Press show the world’s largest beverage maker was instrumental in shaping the Global Energy Balance Network, which is led by a professor at… Read More

Pfizer and Allergan are joining in the biggest buyout of the year, a $160 billion stock deal that will create the world’s largest drugmaker. It’s also the largest so-called inversion, where an American corporation combines with a company headquartered in a country with a lower corporate tax rate, saving potentially… Read More

Premiums are growing, and the Obama administration has once again missed their registration goals. Now the country’s biggest healthcare provider, UnitedHealth, is threatening to abandon Obamacare because it’s so poorly run. Is this the beginning of the end for the President’s plan? UnitedHealth Group said Thursday that it is pulling… Read More

The NFL will ask a U.S. appeals court to uphold a potential $1 billion plan to settle thousands of concussion lawsuits filed by former players. Critics appealing the settlement on Thursday complain it protects some retirees at the expense of others. The awards could reach several million dollars for men… Read More

Iran said Tuesday it will export an additional 500,000 barrels of oil a day after sanctions are lifted under a landmark nuclear deal in a bid to reclaim its market share despite low prices. Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh told reporters Iran plans to double its crude oil exports as sanctions… Read More

Tensions with China and the Paris attacks could upstage trade issues at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, being held under extra-heavy security in the Philippine capital this week. President Barack Obama and the leaders of China, Japan, Mexico and other nations in the 21-member APEC bloc are converging with… Read More