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Thomas Prendergast, the head of the New York City's bus and subway system and a former Long Island Rail Road president, has been hand-picked by...

Kareem Serageldin, a former senior trader at Credit Suisse, admitted in court on Friday that he fraudulently inflated the value of mortgage bonds as the housing market collapsed.

From NYC's micro apartments to one couple's 140-square-foot home, small living spaces are the "it" trend in home design. And now it seems they've made their way over to Europe. First reported on by Wired, American archit...

Today the NLRB has no teeth, but if H.R. 1120 has its way, tomorrow it might not survive. A vote for H.R. 1120 is a vote to send this country to a pre-1935 era, before the National Labor Relations Act.

Foursquare needs to prove it can make money -- and fast. Why not harness all of that check-in data?

Jan Hatzius of Goldman Sachs had some interesting commentary on the deficit the other day. You'll recognize the sectoral balances chart in his work as he's one of the few analysts on Wall Street who seems to really appre...

As new death reports come in, a team of experts from China published a scary report yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) suggesting that the new H7N9 avian flu virus is even more deadly than previously...

Investing part of your portfolio in the yellow metal is one thing, deciding how is quite another.

How have active bond fund managers beaten their passive counterparts--and what risks are lurking for investors?

The world's biggest scheme to certify that seafish come from sustainable sources has come under fire in a scientific journal, where researchers say the label...

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Everyone's talking about today's plummeting gold prices. Marc Faber, author of the the Gloom Boom & Doom Report, was on Bloomberg TV with Trish Regan and Adam Johnson to talk about it. Faber is an optimist. He thinks thi...

Once again the controversial diabetes drug rosiglitazone (Avandia, GlaxoSmithKline) will be the subject of a 2 day FDA hearing. According to a meeting announcement scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on Mon...

ForSight Vision5, a mysterious eye technology startup from the incubator ForSight Labs, has raised $8 million in new funding, according to a new SEC filing. Menlo Park, Calif.-based ForSight Labs has spun off several sta...

Many taxpayers will be finding out they're victims of tax identity theft. Here's what they need to know.

MarketWatch's top 10 stories, April 8 - 12

Many investors think rising rates could hammer stocks, but in the past, when rates have risen off a base as low as today's, the stock market has done well.

Walmart customers across the country are complaining that they can't find the products they want, and that could lead to dangerous consequences for the retailer. "Walmart shelves are empty because it cut back on its work...

Sirius XM, which added over 2 million net subscribers last year, has grown its overall subscriber base from 19 million in 2008 to 23.9 million in 2012. This growth was primarily driven by improved auto sales and the comp...

A 15-year study out of France this week claims that bras could actually make women's breasts saggier, according to French newspaper The Local. Professor Jean-Denis Rouillon, a researcher at Besançon CHU, has been measur...

For stock investors, safe is the new sexy.

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- A southern Nevada gun dealer wants to auction a handgun once owned by a rogue former LAPD officer who killed...