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Cerberus Capital will try to sell the maker of the rifle used in last week's school massacre.

When real investors pay attention to this question, as they have in the wake of the Newtown massacre of innocents at Sandy Hook Elementary, things can get pretty interesting.

Quicker to jump on the ETF bandwagon than older counterparts.

Instagram -- which has gone from plucky photo-sharing startup to cog in the giant Internet machine that is Facebook -- just had one of the...

William Bryan Jennings, the banker whose assault and hate-crime charges over a dispute with a New York cab driver were dropped, was fired by Morgan Stanley and is now reportedly trying to get deferred compensation from h...

How have the U.S. middle classes even vaguely been able to sustain their living standards? Answer: by taking on unpayable debt that chokes the financial system and throttles economic growth. It's an appalling situation a...

After a weak open this morning, the markets remained in negative territory as investors continue to keep a close eye on the fiscal cliff negotiations.

Treasurys bounced back as buyers returned to the market and bid up a seven-year note auction, looking to take advantage of the recent price drop.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Videogame maker THQ Inc said on Wednesday it filed for bankruptcy protection, and entered into an agreement with private investment firm Clearlake Capital Group for a potential sale of its asset...

We've all heard of Instagram – and its $1 billion price tag. You may also be familiar with Instagram’s predecessor, the retro-styled Hipstamatic, or Path, the former photo-sharing app that is now an everyth...

From December 7-9, Food+Tech Connect, GRACE Communications Foundation and Applegate brought together more than 150 “steakholders,” technologists, entrepreneurs, creatives and policy experts for Hack//Meat, th...

Chinese solar stocks rocketed higher Wednesday after China's government said it would support consolidations and bankruptcies in the sector in a bid to reduce over-capacity.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - The default of a Chinese investment plan has handed Beijing a tough choice: bail out investors and endorse moral hazard or let it fail and risk unnerving those who hold at least $1 trillion in so-ca...

Democratic chairman wants to move investment tax rates closer to individual levies.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Long-time China watchers probably felt a sense of deja vu when HSBC's chief China economist, Qu Hongbin, predicted last month that the yuan would be convertible within five years.

The small business owner was iconic during this last election cycle. The rage all started four years ago with Joe the Plumber, and the candidates in this last run have since elevated the small business owner to near sain...

Sprott Asset Management today announced that Sprott Physical Platinum and Palladium Trust, a trust created to invest and hold substantially all of its assets in physical platinum and palladium bullion and managed by Spro...

As we remarked in a late December 2011 post, federal judges have no qualms with keeping lawyers, reporters, legal commentators, and other interested parties busy during the holiday season by releasing decisions in hig...

Kudos to Bill Ackman for coming forward with his short position in Herbalife (HLF) shares.

For a couple months leading up to Christmas, we’re all infected with a pernicious scourge: earworms. Sounds like a bloodsucking parasite, but “earworm” (which comes from a translation of the G...

Making and selling guns and ammunition is a lucrative business for U.S. firearms companies, which will earn nearly $1 billion in profit this year, according...

Three-year-old Jason Halili says he wants to be a police officer when he grows up. The New York City boy already has the requisite gear...