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Surprise! The holiday shopping season is already underway. That and more top money stories you need to know Friday. Walmart.com/AOL No need to wait for Black Friday to start your holiday shopping. Walmart (W...

Getty Images for NasdaqChad Dickerson, CEO of Etsy, rings the Nasdaq opening bell Thursday as the stock began trading for the first time. NEW YORK -- U.S. stocks ended marginally lower Thursday as lingering...

Andel Ngan, AFP/Getty ImagesGeneral Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt General Electric filed for an initial public offering of its North American consumer lending business as part of Chief Executive Officer Jeffr...

Scott Olson/Getty Images NEW YORK -- Investors seem to be craving burgers and crinkle-cut fries. Shares of Shake Shack, a burger chain that started as a New York City hot dog cart, more than doubled in the...

Richard Drew/APShake Shack executives ring the New York Stock Exchange opening bell on Friday, the day of the chain's IPO. Last week's debut of Shake Shack (SHAK) was a scorcher. The popular burger flipper an...

Ignignokt/Flickr The Cronut, a Frankenstein combination of the croissant and the donut, has been the hot dessert for nearly a year, ever since it popped out of the oven of the Dominique Ansel Bakery in New Yo...

christianz1969/Flickr Americans lately have been transferring their love of fast-casual restaurant food to stocks of companies in the segment. Late last month, "better burger" specialist The Habit Restaurants...

Mark Kennedy/AP NEW YORK -- Burger chain Shake Shack, which got its start as a hot dog cart in New York City, plans to raise up to $80 million from an initial public offering of its common stock. The company...

Richard Drew/AP SAN FRANCISCO -- Retired schoolteacher Donald Hovasse signed up for Twitter about a year ago at the urging of his daughter. He lost interest after trying the service a few times and finding lo...

Bloomberg via Getty ImagesSteve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, may wish the Windows Phone operating systems sold better, but there's a big silver lining for him in the success of rival Android. • In the wor...

It's all about the Fed. You may have heard this song before, but after months of speculation, we could find out Wednesday afternoon when the Federal Reserve will begin to cut back on its massive bond-buying ...

Hong Wu/Getty Images NEW YORK -- The vast majority of Americans have never heard of Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company which is on the verge of potentially the world's largest initial public offering. ...