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Oracle Corp.'s latest earnings report included $10 billion of quarterly cash burn and a massive increase in capital spending.

In this space two weeks ago, I introduced “cultural barometers.” That is a term we historians apply to traditions, artifacts, etc. that “reveal the mood(s) of a people or society from a given moment ...

The domestic equity indices erased all earlier losses and traded with minor gains in afternoon trade. Market participants remained focused on corporate earnings. The Nifty traded above the 25,500 ...

The curtain has fallen on Washington, and the stage lights dimmed not because of policy triumph but because the actors refused to play their parts. The United States government has entered shutdown ...

STAUNTON - Among the centuries-old knickknacks and keepsakes that fill Jan Landis' Staunton antique shop are glass ornaments painted in the silvery toxin known as mercury. Landis isn't worried, though ...

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A: A barometer is a device to measure pressure. From the 17th to the 19th centuries, most designs had the same working principle: air pressure pushed down on an open column of fluid, which was allowed ...

A 100-year-old barometer triggered a chemical hazard alert when it toppled from the wall of a Dairy New Zealand office near Hamilton on Friday. About two teaspoonfuls of mercury spilled. One worker ...

People often ask me how I manage to get the weather forecast right MOST of the time. The answer, of course, is dumb luck and lots of help from the pros at NWS. But in addition, there is one weather ...