FTC

Exxon Mobil's $60 billion deal to buy Pioneer Natural Resources received federal clearance, but former Pioneer CEO Scott Sheffield was barred from joining the new company's board of directors.

The for-profit university chain has agreed to stop claiming that 90 percent of its graduates seeking employment found jobs in their field within six months of graduation. It was not able to prove it.

For the past 5 years illegal robocalls, prerecorded sales calls, have been surging in numbers. The Federal Trade Commission says they receive over 100,000…