Equipment Leasing Small Business News + More 4 Qualities That Make for a Great Startup City + MORE 01/28/2017

Smart advice from experts about entering and winning a contest to fund your startup.

All across America there are cities eager for the energy that entrepreneurs have in abundance.

The average list-price increase across Merck’s brand-name drugs and vaccines ranged from 7.4% in 2010 to a peak of 10.5% in 2014, although the company did offer discounts.

Small businesses can once again use pretax funds to reimburse workers for health-care costs, especially premiums for individual and family coverage.

The president is betting big that he can harness U.S. strategic and economic heft to press other countries into one-on-one trade deals, a sharp reversal from recent U.S. policy to negotiate sprawling regional agreements.

The U.S. economy decelerated in the final three months of 2016, returning to a lackluster growth rate that President Donald Trump has set out to double in the face of challenging long-term trends.

How you sell yourself is different than how you market yourself.

You better be right if you are so confident your idea is perfect that you don’t ask intended customers what they think.

The pace of big Chinese takeovers abroad is slowing as buyers contend with rules tightening the flow of money out of the country and increased government scrutiny at home and overseas.

Females are the winners of this $8 billion growing industry.

Executives are realizing that President Trump’s personal interest in defense projects is changing the rules of engagement.

A sticking point in the retailer’s efforts to end the federal investigation into foreign bribes is its future eligibility to accept food stamps in the U.S.

Xi Jinping went to Davos this month to praise globalization, while Donald Trump arrived in Washington to bury it. Yet the superficial contrast between their speeches is deceptive, Greg Ip writes.

The Nesquik bunny is slimming down, and so is the chocolate drink whose package it has adorned for decades, as Nestlé works to turn around lackluster revenue growth.

For all of the passionate political debate sparked by the North American Free Trade Agreement, most economists have concluded that the concrete impact on the U.S. economy has been modest—a small gain in growth and efficiency, and a small loss in jobs and wages for certain factory workers.