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WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - Cigarette companies are boosting the money they spend on giveaways and similar promotions in the United States as they attempt to pitch to a declining pool of cigarette smokers. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which...

By Shankar Ramakrishnan NEW YORK, April 29 (IFR) - Some of the US's biggest brand names raced to the market on Monday to lock in tight pricing on their deals before Apple comes to the market with its jumbo offering. A total of USD6.725bn was raised...

By John Balassi NEW YORK, April 29 (IFR) - Apple mandated Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs to lead bond investor calls beginning Monday for a potential first-ever debt sale by the company, adding momentum to a US high-grade market that was peppered with...

April 26 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. * Late Thursday afternoon, in a 63-to-30 procedural vote, the Senate cleared the way for...

Reports: Initial jobless claims for week ended April 20, 7:30 a.m.; Mortgage rates for week ended April 25, 9 a.m.; Natural gas inventories for week ended April 20, 9:30 a.m.; Kansas City Fed manufacturing index for April, 10 a.m. Local earnings:...

No one under 21 would be able to buy cigarettes in New York City, under a new proposal announced Monday that marks the latest in a decade of moves to crack down on smoking in the nation's largest city.     New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Advocates for seniors say President Barack Obama is breaking his promise to protect Social Security, while conservatives say he is breaking his promise not to raise taxes on the middle class. Obama's budget proposal includes a...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government is abandoning a legal battle to require that cigarette packs carry a set of large and often macabre warning labels depicting the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit. Instead, the Food and...

NEW YORK (AP) — Anti-smoking advocates and health experts hailed proposals from Mayor Michael Bloomberg that would keep cigarettes out of sight in New York City stores, while tobacco companies and smokers called it an overreach. The ban, which...

Two South Florida businessmen turned into franchise entrepreneurs this past October when they were at the crossroads of their professional futures. Franchising looks good for people who want to get off the corporate treadmill and create their own ladder...

They helped Rod Blagojevich ascend to the top of state government, and they cooperated with federal agents in bringing him down. In between, the three former confidants made lucrative careers for themselves by trading on their access to the Democratic...

ATLANTA (AP) — In a graphic new ad campaign announced Thursday, the government is trying to shock smokers into quitting with the sometimes-gruesome stories of people damaged by tobacco products. The new effort confronts a hard truth: Despite...