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Walmart has pulled the Bushmaster AR-15 after it was used in the Sandy Hook shooting

Free Shipping Day 2012 will be celebrated on Monday, with deals, discounts and free shipping offered by many e-retailers and stores.

Here's your handy clip-and-save earnings watchlist for this week. Walgreen, Nike, Rite Aid and General Mills are also reporting.

Another month of double-digit declines in automobile registrations and ongoing losses don't tell the whole story.

Wal-Mart and Kroger have come forward as potential buyers of Hotess as the company liquidates and prepares for auction.

A new survey predicts by 2020 Chinese and Indians will together buy more of the precious rock than Americans.

PepsiCo's got a brand new bag: Lay's newest flavor of potato chips, Pepsi-Chicken Chips.

Globally, aviation supports some 57 million jobs and $2.2 trillion in economic activity.

Airbus, Mitsubishi and Bombardier secured $15 billion worth of orders this week for greener, cheaper-to-fly jets.

U.S. retail spending rose less than expected last month and stayed at roughly the same level it has been at since September.

Multinationals are cash-rich abroad and cash-poor at home.

It seems the “Fifty Shades of Grey” phenomenon is having an effect on gift buying this holiday season.

The U.S. Commerce Dept. will release Nov. sales figures on Thursday likely showing auto purchases boosted the monthly total.

The Indian government appointed a retired judge to probe Walmart's disclosure of Capitol Hill lobbying activity pertaining to India.

Are dollar stores recession proof? Family Dollar CEO says they're just the store for all seasons.

As it prepares to exit bankruptcy and fights off advances by US Airways, American Airlines adds a big, new 300-seater jet to its fleet.

Nintendo’s (PINK: NTDOY) Wii U failed to surpass sales of its immediate predecessor on its opening weekend in Japan.

Solid sales growth and rising memberships and fees are expected to boost the wholesale club's 2013 first fiscal quarter profit.

Kingfisher Airlines has reportedly finalized a deal with Etihad Airways to sell 48 percent of stake

"This has been a true price crash," Trilby Lundberg, publisher of the Lundberg Survey, said of gas prices on Sunday.

Opponents of foreign big-box retail in India claim Wal-Mart's engagement with Capitol Hill amounts to corruption.

The best deals and discounts for online holiday shopping on Green Monday 2012.

Sales for Activision Blizzard’s (Nasdaq: ATVI) latest “Call of Duty” game dropped 14 percent from their position in 2011 with "Modern Warfare 3," a decline in sales that occurred despite "Black Ops 2" reaching $1 billion in sales faster than any previous installment in the franchise.

The popular photo-sharing service has replaced its images with links in Twitter feeds, a move to boost Instagram's web profile.

Japan Atomic Power Company may be forced to permanently shut down one of its two reactors in Tsuruga nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture, as a study by experts from the country’s Nuclear Regulation Authority has concluded that the plant is sitting on an active fault line.

With pilots of bankrupt American Airlines approving a contract, the tug-of-war between American and US Airways over American's future will intensify.

American Airlines pilots on Friday voted to ratify a new union contract, ending a years-long labor dispute and stabilizing American's parent, AMR Corp, as it tries to emerge from bankruptcy.

Investigators are looking into the disappearance of $700,000 in gold dust from a medical research lab. At this time it is unknown if the gold dust was stolen or misplaced.

As if the beleaguered electronics retailer doesn't have enough problems. L.A. startup wins in trade-secret theft lawsuit.