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Lower gas prices in April weren’t enough to embolden U.S. consumers to spend much more elsewhere. The Commerce Department said retail sales rose only 0.1 percent last month.

Facebook on Tuesday increased the price range at which it plans to sell stock to the public, as investor enthusiasm in the offering continued to mount and boost the potential value of the world’s most popular social network.

The Greater Boston Business Council (GBBC), Massachusetts gay and lesbian chamber of commerce, was host to two prominent National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) events from May 2 - 4, 2012.

The executive responsible for trading strategy at JPMorgan Chase, one of the highest-ranking women in Wall Street, on Monday became the first casualty of the bank’s stunning $2 billion loss.

Facebook’s chief executive turned 28 on, setting in motion the social network’s biggest week ever. The company is expected to start selling stock to the public for the first time and begin trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market on Friday.

Yahoo still has credibility issues, even after casting aside CEO Scott Thompson because his official biography included a college degree that he never received.

Many argue that gay marriage would bring companies a diverse workplace environment and would boost business -- but a recent New York article explains that some of the best states in which to do business are states that do not recognize marriage equality.

A big decline in gas and energy costs drove a measure of U.S. wholesale prices lower in April. Outside that drop, prices barely rose.

Panasonic’s January-March losses ballooned 10-fold to 438 billion yen ($5 billion), completing a year of record red ink at the Japanese electronics maker battered by natural disasters and an ailing TV business.

The next time a big bank or financial firm fails regulators hope to avoid a major blow to the economy by seizing the firm’s parent company while allowing its healthy subsidiaries to continue operations the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says.