While they're not on the level of Whole Foods supermarkets, Harris Teeter stores tend to be in more affluent neighborhoods and are more profitable because they have bigger fresh food sections. Kroger, meanwhile, has been expanding the ranks of its …

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The SP-1+ rating for the short-term notes, which will mature July 18, 2014, is a top grade from Standard & Poors, which assigns that status to borrowers "determined to possess a very strong capacity to pay debt service." In its report on the town's …

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KAZAN, Russia — Aurieyall Scott delivered Team USA's first gold medal of the meet and made history in the process as UCF's first medalist at the World University Games. Decked out in Team USA red, Scott improved with each round of the 100M event.

The CHART OF THE DAY shows one ounce of gold bought about 11.75 barrels of oil on July 5, the fewest since November 2008. The ratio reached 28.26 in February 2009, the highest since 1988, as the U.S. struggled to recover from the worst recession …

That is why that even though the 2013 edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup is nowhere near a must-win tournament for competitive reasons, there is still ample reason to put an emphasis on making a statement, coming out on top and not just using the …

Savvy investors have gotten a clear signal that gold has bottomed. How? By looking at the prices of gold options, as expressed in the gold volatility index. Volatility indexes can be useful for discovering some interesting characteristics about …