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Once a dominant bookseller, Barnes & Noble has floundered.

10-year treasury yield hits 7-year high.

Employees eligible for the severance packages were offered three weeks' pay for each year of service up to 60 weeks.

The average daily delivery volumes can double during the holidays.

___ GM, Honda team up to produce self-driving vehicle General Motors and Honda are teaming up on self-driving vehicle technology as big automakers and tech giants race to develop the next generation of personal transportation.

The board of Barnes and Noble says it is reviewing the company's future after several parties expressed interest in buying it.

U.S. stocks are climbing Wednesday morning after a survey by payroll processor ADP showed strong hiring by private businesses in September.

Encouraging signs on hiring and growth in the service sector sent small companies and banks higher Wednesday and knocked bond prices into a tailspin.

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Amazon has yet to disclose the financial impact it expects the new pay initiatives to have on its bottom line.

Shares of the British sports car maker fell in their first day of trading.

The rival automakers are teaming up to pursue large-scale deployment of autonomous vehicles.

Greek banking shares are down sharply amid investor fears over lenders' needs to reduce their large stock of bad loans resulting from the financial crisis.

Asian shares were mostly lower on Wednesday on rising oil prices and lackluster Japanese data.

Outages have been reported in London, San Francisco and Singapore.

California's new law requiring companies to include women on their boards of directors may not survive widely expected legal challenges but it has already spotlighted the entrenched practices and barriers that have helped keep women out of boardrooms.

The Dow hit another record high.

The owner of China's largest music streaming services is looking to strike it rich in the U.S. stock market.

The Monza SP1 and SP2 made their public debut at the Paris Motor Show.

___ Amazon jumps out ahead of its rivals and raises wages to $15 NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon, the company that transformed the way we shop for just about everything, is jumping out ahead of the pack again: It has announced a minimum wage of $15 an hour for its U.S. employees.