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A 217-mph argument against restraint.

Michael Bloomberg has very close ties to London. The New York Times has a great feature out this morning on just how close now that he's building an impressive building for Bloomberg LP there. For several years the NYC M...

Of the 29 companies presenting, a few stick out as the most interesting and innovative. Here are the highlights.

Remember that Q4 GDP report that came in at 0.1%? It won't stay negative. From Nomura: Data releases today each had a significant impact on our Q4 GDP tracking model, but on net the change was a small positive. We began ...

Believing a recovery is underway, many investors have rediscovered their appetite for risk, sending stock markets higher.

Las Vegas Sands casinos and Madrid officials have chosen the town of Alcorcon on the outskirts of the Spanish capital as the site for the multibillion-dollar "EuroVegas" casino project, which...

A major lawsuit filed against Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has generated a flurry of class-action cases that, if successful, could result in lower health insurance premiums...

A summary of Washington events for the week of Feb. 11 to 15.

Google stock rocketed up another $11 today to close at a new all-time high. At $785 a share, Google now has a market cap of $260 billion. The re-awakening of Google's stock follows a multi-year period in which most inves...

Economist Paul Krugman is not worried about the U.S. deficit as much as other people are. If our economy grows fairly strongly in the next 10 years, we have nothing to worry about, says the author of "End This Depression...

This post originally appeared at Oyster.com. he newest hotel on Atlantic City's boardwalk, Revel is a pristine luxury property with a smoke-free policy that helps keep its casino fresh and airy. The spacious rooms are to...

Despite disappointing many observers, Thursday's confirmation hearing of CIA Director-to-be John Brennan laid bare one thing -- the President's covert drone war operates beyond America's constitutionally-mandated system ...

Deering Banjo Co. is having its best year ever. Among its customers: Taylor Swift, Keith Urban and Steve Martin.

Lululemon CEO Christine Day helped to build her company into an international brand. In a recent video with Yahoo! Finance, Day talked about how she balances work and family. Day is married with three kids. "Do things wh...

In preparation for the loads of snow we are about to receive from the blizzard hitting New York and New England, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has declared a state of emergency throughout the state. Massachusetts, Conne...

The pattern looks eerily familiar.

The government is convinced that money managers who consistently beat the market are probably using insider information to produce these abnormal returns. Unfortunately for prosecutors who want to shut this kind of thing...

It is well beyond time when we must stop deluding ourselves with claims that all is well with our energy security and begin to take serious steps to address the likely looming problems.

When we reviewed the new Samsung Ativ Odyssey, the company's first Windows phone to launch in the US, we were less than impressed. As we wrote previously, "it makes phone calls. It browses the web. It runs apps. It doesn...

Despite a lot of bad reviews for its new Surface Pro tablet, Microsoft hasn't lost the hearts of its true-blue fans, enterprise office workers. Market researcher Forrester predicts that some 200 million people worldwide ...

I've realized that in order to do justice to the folks I grew up with it is important to divest my emotions from the almost scientific accurateness needed to present a story.

Every small-town tough guy thinks he'd never take treatment like this. Then when they get down to Parris Island, that small-town tough guy quickly realizes: You will take treatment like this and like it. Welcome to a beh...