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After generous parental allowances and guaranteed childcare fail to reverse the trend, experts call for a different approachIn all the data about Germany, it's the one statistic that bucks the trend. Its economy is stron...

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Liquidnet, an all-electronic stock broker, said it laid off more than 30 employees at its New York headquarters last week, just under 15 percent of its workforce.

(Reuters) - Iranian hackers have repeatedly attacked Bank of America Corp, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Citigroup Inc over the past year as part of a broad cyber campaign targeting the United States, according to people famil...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co is being awarded a $1.9 billion contract update for 11 P-8 maritime surveillance planes, the U.S. Defense Department said Friday.

The country's street sellers will almost certainly vanish once foreign supermarkets are allowed into the big citiesCertain habits in Indian life once gave an illusion of permanence. On hot afternoons 30 years ago, for ex...

Libbey Inc. (LBY - Snapshot Report) has been showing considerable strength following its outstanding second quarter 2012 results, which included an earnings surprise of 108.5%. Shares of this glass tablewa...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group is taking a page from its Wall Street competitors in bringing a new hedge fund product to market.

The Romneys paid a higher effective tax rate than the average middle-income American, though a significantly lower rate than the average rich, or very rich, American.

QE2 in 2010 and ‘Operation Twist’ in 2011 recovered the stock market from double-digit corrections that were underway at the time, and rescued investors from their extreme bearish sentiment each time.

(Reuters) - Peter Liguori, a former top executive at News Corp's Fox and Discovery Communications Inc, has emerged as the leading candidate for Chief Executive at Tribune Co once it emerges from bankruptcy, according to ...

(Reuters) - Jefferies Group Inc took the unusual step of outlining compensation plans for its two top executives for the next three years after the investment bank's shares came under pressure over pay concerns.

The Standard & Poor's 500 stock index is just 6.7% from its all-time high in October 2007.

In a room behind the new Patek Philippe boutique in Los Angeles Mr. Stern is kind to give me a few minutes of his time. Thierry Stern continues the family business inherited recently from his father - who still plays a c...

(Reuters) - Just four years after toxic U.S. mortgages brought the global financial system to its knees and triggered the deepest recession since the Great Depression, a U.S. housing regulator may be making it easier for...

Trading speed does not constitute the root of contemporary market-structure problems. Problems abound, and many stem from the move to decimalization in the Clinton years, but the 'race to speed' isn't really central to t...

New York City designer Raul Penarañda became one of the fastest growing fashion entrepreneurs to come out of the small business industry with his 100% USA manufactured ready to wear fashion line for women.

Every September, a quiet, churchy city in the American heartland undergoes a Technicolor transformation. Art pops up everywhere—paintings, giant insect statues, experimental happenings. Sidewalks and...

WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Friday announced that he will not take all the charitable deductions to which he was entitled for...

Neal Frankle, a member of the AdviceIQ network, is one of the most prolific writers and sharpest minds in the advisor world. Flipping a house seems so 2007. But Neal argues that you can still do it, even in this market. ...

Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, released their joint 2011 tax returns today, showing they paid $1.9 million in federal income tax on $13.7 million in adjusted gross income, a 14% effectiv...