Unfortunately, small business retained earnings alone won’t take the economy from moribund recovery to robust expansion. That will require Corporate America to stop hoarding cash and start investing in the economy. The question is, when will Wall Street let them?

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo says New York has more jobs than ever and that upstate New York is rebounding.

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A tax cut for small business-owners has not been claimed as frequently as expected.

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A spokeswoman for the company that owns nuclear plants in Vermont, Massachusetts and New York says it will respond to any new requirements federal regulators might seek after a complaint by anti-nuclear groups.

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A shipping company pleaded guilty plea Friday to criminal charges from a 1,400-ton molasses spill in Honolulu Harbor that killed more than 26,000 fish and other marine life, but a federal judge said he wants to examine the legality of $600,000 in community service payments the company has agreed to pay.

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Ridesharing company Uber launched in Las Vegas, Reno and Carson City on Friday after months of rumors that included recruitment posts on Craigslist and cryptic front-page newspaper advertisements, but the company faces a battle with the state’s highly regulated and influential taxi industry.

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UPS is expecting an 11 percent jump in December shipments as the holiday shopping season heats up.

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State officials are reporting stronger job growth in the second quarter of the year in Rhode Island than originally estimated.

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With urban space increasingly hard to come by, startups like MakeSpace and Boxbee are rethinking the self-storage experience.

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With OPPOS, serial entrepreneur Tom Ervin is making mix-and-match leggings for girls, which were inspired by his granddaughter.

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