A customer makes a purchase using Apple Pay on her iPhone 6 at a Walgreens store in Times Square last Monday. The mobile payment service has now been blocked by CVS and Rite Aid. John Minchillo/AP Images for MasterCard hide caption
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Macy Gould shared this photo from Lexington, Ky., where the gas prices are under $3. Macy Gould/Instagram hide caption
Candice Nelson fits her daughter Arya Kubesh with a Halloween hat at a store at Galleria Mall in Edina, Minn. Retailers are hoping Halloween will give them a good bounce into the peak spending time of the year. Elizabeth Flores/MCT/Landov hide caption
The California Public Employees' Retirement System has capped how much it will pay for some common medical procedures and tests. Max Whittaker/Getty Images hide caption
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Workers drill for oil in the Bakken shale formation outside Watford City, N.D., an area experiencing an oil boom. Andrew Burton/Getty Images hide caption
A borrower enters a code into a starter interrupt device installed in a car in Limerick, Pa. Rick Smith/AP hide caption
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. Stocks took a beating, with key indexes falling more than 2 percent before bouncing back slightly. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
The Manhattan-based headquarters of Charity: Water. Elise Hu/NPR hide caption
By this time next year, U.S consumer are likely to be using credit cards with electronic chips, like these in Germany. But such cards are expected to stop only 60 percent of fraud, prompting a retailers' spokesman to call them the "not-so-smart card." Martin Meissner/AP hide caption
Kmart says it has removed malware that had infected its checkout registers in stores. The company believes the malware may have been in place for about a month before it was detected. Rachel Murray/Getty Images hide caption
