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Two of the largest chemical corporations in the world and with operating plants in the Victoria area are deep in merger talks which could result in an upcoming official statement announcing the merger. Dow Chemical and DuPont, both employers in south Texas, are reportedly deep in negotiations for this possible deal...

Summer internships on Wall Street can be difficult to snag, especially if you aren't related to one of the firm's senior executives. But as an unnamed college student has proved, the really honest approach to job seeking can also work. His cover letter, in which he admits he has "no unbelievably special skills or genius eccentricities" and says he "no qualms about fetching coffee, s

Roger Waters could very well fall into the category of wealth dubbed the “one percent” that’s being targeted by Occupy Wall Street, but that isn’t stopping the Pink Floyd star from supporting the nascent New York-based socioeconomic movement.

This must be the week for late night talk show hosts disguising themselves. First we had Conan outside of ‘Today,’ and now we have Stephen Colbert at Occupy Wall Street. The ‘Colbert Report’ host dressed as revolutionary Che Guevara and went to the protest location earlier this week.

The Occupy Wall Street movement continues to generate headlines, so what better time to see what Americans actually think of our esteemed financial institutions? Forty-seven percent of Americans think Wall Street hurts the American economy more than it helps, whereas only 38 percent think the opposite is true.

At lunchtime on Tuesday, New Yorkers in Lower Manhattan were treated to an unusual sight — a small plane buzzing by the Standard and Poor’s building, towing a banner that read, “Thanks For The Downgrade: You Should All Be Fired.” Commissioned by St. Louis banker and single mother Lucy Nobbe, who paid $895 to hire the pilot, the fly-by was a reaction to the US losing its longtime AAA credit rating