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About half of U.S. business owners say President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods, as well as imported steel and aluminum, are good for business, calling them “positive” for the economy.

British businesses have rejected the prospect of a second Brexit referendum and are focusing instead on “building a global Britain”.

Some in the group shouted “four more years!” as the president concluded his event.

The world’s largest publicly traded oil company is making a huge investment in the United States over the next five years.

After President Trump halted an Obama-era program for foreign nationals wanting to start business in the United States, big business and the open borders lobby are outraged.

Speaking to workers and business people in Italy’s port city of Genoa Saturday, Pope Francis surprised his hearers by praising entrepreneurship and touting the importance of healthy businesses for the economy.

A new report suggests that the mere threat of President Donald Trump’s executive order to investigate abuses to American workers due to the H-1B visa is making U.S. companies rethink their hiring practices.

A California tattoo removal clinic is seeing a record number of clients since the 2016 election who worry that their tattoos will prompt immigration officials to single them out as targets for deportation.

The British peoples’ trust in their government, media, and business has tumbled over the last year, a key survey has shown. However, of the three, businesses found marginally more favour.

SANTA MONICA — Over one hundred “progressives” vowed to “resist” President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday as they gathered at the Mt. Olive Lutheran Church in this well-to-do coastal California city to organize efforts to combat the incoming administration.

Homebuilders are feeling good about the upcoming Trump presidency.

Jason Miller adds that Trump looks forward to having a press conference next month and explaining his business plans in more detail; however, no date for the January press conference has been set.

The number of companies announcing a ramping up of investment in the U.S. and the corresponding rush to create jobs for Americans have jumped to a quicker pace since the election of Donald J. Trump to the White House.

The D.C. lobbyist collective Engage Cuba is promoting a letter, allegedly signed by “small business” entrepreneurs in Cuba, urging President-elect Donald Trump not to undo his predecessor Barack Obama’s favorable diplomatic overtures to the Castro regime.

“We’re all working and preparing for this transition in advance of him being sworn in on January 20 and as updates become available we will go and share those with you,” spokesman Jason Miller tells reporters. Transferring the Trump business may be part of that transition.

Dunkin’ Donuts is blaming its decrease in donut sales on the presidential election.

Papa John’s is apologizing after an Ohio-based franchise launched an “extremely insensitive” promotion to sell large pizzas on the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11.

Donald Trump’s National Diversity Coalition adviser Dr. Lisa Shin heralded her parents’ story of immigrating to the United States, slammed Hillary Clinton as a threat to and pointed to Donald Trump as preserver of the American Dream.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is making news on who she would choose for Vice President, even though she hasn’t officially won the Democratic nomination.

Retail giant Target has announced a shakeup of top executives and the hire of ex-Nordstrom executive Mark Tritton, amid the self-inflicted pain caused by a consumer rejection of its transgender-friendly bathrooms and changing rooms.

Pope Francis praised the free market and the role of businesses in the creation of wealth and in the promotion of the common good in an address before 7,000 businesspeople Saturday.

A Wisconsin manufacturing plant made a policy announcement affecting prayer time for its 53 Muslims employees, prompting the Muslim employees to claim “discrimination.”

In a bleak new report, the World Economic Forum (WEF) predicts heavy job losses to automation and robotics over the next four years as technological advances significantly reshape the industrial landscape. The WEF outlines its grim forecast for the labor

Lack of work-life balance may be a feature—not a bug—at the world’s top companies. Glassdoor just released its annual list of “Best Places to Work,” based on its database of employee reviews.

In the world of hyper-competitive business and San Francisco’s experimental culture a trend has emerged – microdosing psychedelic drugs to improve performance.

Model and former stripper Amber Rose tells TIME magazine that women can use “seductive skills” to achieve their career and business goals.

In-N-Out Burger, the living testament to the art of the perfect cheap cheeseburger, only operates a few hundred stores in a handful of West Coast states–and the chain’s owner says the company will “never” go public.

Obama criticized presidential candidates for not offering solutions to economic problems, choosing instead to blame his presidency. Obama appeared to address political candidates of both parties, as he did not specifically single out Republicans. “I’m here to say that there is nothing particularly patriotic or American about talking down America,” he said, citing the United States economy as a source of economic strength in the world.

Some Democrats in the California Assembly are bucking the leftist tide of their party by voting down or stopping bills cherished by those wishing to spend more and more money.

After an 18 year “vacation,” Dunkin’ Donuts is returning to California with a vengeance. The Canton, Massachusetts-based company has already opened ten stores in the state, has just announced nine in the Bay Area, and expects to eventually have 1,000 stores in California.

A car dealer in West Palm Beach, Florida, is defiant in the face of threats from city officials to fine him for placing American flag banners on his car lot in violation, they say, of a city ordinance.

Sex, drugs, and rock and roll might sound more glamorous than a diversified business portfolio, but the returns are a little more shortsighted.

John Malone, Chairman of Liberty Media, the dominant shareholder of Charter Communications, reportedly called Time Warner Cable CEO Rob Marcus in recent days about a friendly merger following the collapse last week of an offer by Comcast to buy Time Warner, according to the Wall Street Journal blog. Malone and Marcus appear be discussing a 3-way merger that would challenge Comcast’s industry dominance.

Joel Kotkin, the noted liberal critic of California’s far-left government, says that Gov. Jerry Brown is leading California to ruin–and that the state’s business leaders share the blame by failing to speak out. In a new essay at the Daily Beast that summarizes much of his recent criticism, Kotkin says that while Brown’s father Pat brought the state progress and prosperity as governor (1959-1967), Jerry Brown “has waged a kind of Oedipal struggle against his father’s legacy.”

More than 100 business executives running companies which together employ more than half a million people have come out in support of the Conservative Party. They are urging the electorate not to change course in the upcoming general election. The

The Texas Senate has passed a package of bills that include substantial reforms to the state’s franchise tax, a tax on a business’ gross margins. Conservatives are cheering the news, and turning a hopeful eye toward the House, where the fate of these reforms now rests.