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Obamacare's fast-food menu: Cutting workers' hours for some, slower growth for others

This week restaurant executives have been meeting Congress member in a lobbying effort to nix the 30-hour rule

Republican clash with Obama adds risk of shutdown

Republicans in the House on Friday voted to choke off funding for President Barack Obama's health care law in the stopgap spending Bill

LinkedIn customers say firm hacked their email address books

The customers asked a federal judge in California to bar LinkedIn from repeating the alleged violations

Most Asian stocks fall after RBI raises rate

Japanese exporters gained as the yen weakened, while the regional benchmark index held at a four-month high

Long queues at Apple stores as new iPhones' sales begin

In Munich about 2,000 people lined up and at the Louvre in Paris about 300 people waited ahead of the 8 am opening

Yellen chances grow as Obama aides test Senate support

Senator Charles Schumer calls Yellen an excellent choice to succeed Ben Bernanke

JPMorgan agrees to pay $920 million for London Whale loss

The settlement resolves claims by the US SEC, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Reserve and the UK Financial Conduct Authority

Bernanke saves borrowing firms' $700 bn

Businesses took advantage of the Fed's largesse to lock in record low rates, extend maturities and raise cash by selling $5.16 trillion of bonds

Microsoft plans $40-bn buyback, boosts dividend

Microsoft launches new Bing logo

Summers quits Fed quest after Democrats spurn Obama favourite

Summers and Fed vice chairman Janet Yellen were reported to be the leading candidates

Chemical weapons pact faces major obstacles

The plan to remove weapons by mid-2014 will be difficult to meet even if Assad's regime cooperates

Pain at pumps

Hello Kitty toys: The billion-dollar business of cuteness

Wildcatter hunch unlocks $1.5 tn in offshore US oil

Just as technology has allowed explorers to tap vast new oil and natural gas supplies in onshore shale fields, it's now reinventing the Gulf

Firm that broke the buck in 2008 fails to reach SEC deal

The SEC sued the Bents and two of their companies in May 2009

Soybean crop set to boost exports to a 6-year high

Best monsoon rainfall in two decades is set to boost the oilseed crop to an all-time high

UK seen heading for fastest GDP growth since 2007

Bloomberg News survey says GDP will rise 1.3% this year and 2% in 2014, compared with predictions of 1% and 1.7% previously

Twitter sets market debut in motion by filing for IPO

Goldman Sachs Group Inc will be the lead underwriter for the IPO

How safe are global banks?