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More pain for Bitcoin. You know the drill: There's a crackdown in China and there's the IRS and everything else. It's now down below $430.   Join the conversation about this story »     

Oil and gas companies are plunging back into the deepwater of the Gulf of Mexico with massive infrastructure investments.

The founders of new high-frequency-trading concern SXP planned to give profits to charity but instead stand accused of stealing algorithms from Quantlab, the powerful firm that fired two of them.

The New York City Health Department has reportedly shut down a Dunkin' Donuts in Manhattan after a video was posted to YouTube showing what appeared to be a rat crawling all over the store's bagels.  A sign hung in the ...

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about why long term employment is dead and never coming back.  The crux of the article was long-term and lifetime employment are pretty much non-existent today and aren't showing any signs...

Rumor has it that billionaire music producer and film studio exec David Geffen bought an East Hampton compound nestled between the beach and Georgica Pond for $67.5 million, according to real estate blogger The Real Est...

Meet HomeRun, Keith Rabois' 11-year-old plan to streamline home sales.     

Audi recently introduced an all new instrument display for the company's upcoming 3rd generation TT sports car, and it is nothing short of stunning. Gone are the physical gauges and separate multimedia screens: In its pl...

City analysts adapt student drinking game to analyse the new rash of IPOs     

China's cabinet decided to continue the breaks for small and very small enterprises through 2016 and said it was considering significantly broadening them.     

EIB's failure to publish Mopani-Glencore report following allegations of tax avoidance is unacceptable, say NGOs

World Bank president Jim Yon Kim stopped by The Washington Post on Thursday to chat about some of the changes under way as the bank moves to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030. Throughout discussions about energy projects...

GM to take $400m pretax charge for change in the value of Venezuelan currency

Money market fund assets fall by $13.12 billion to $2.63 trillion for the week

Just Friends of the Earth, Oxfam, RSPB, Save the Children and the Woodland Trust remain part of its charity cards offering

(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday threw out a $919.9 million jury verdict in favor of DuPont Co in a case over the alleged theft of trade secrets for a fiber used to make Kevlar bulletproof vests.

Microsoft is latching onto its one reliably cool brand, Xbox, to gain a foothold in the next emerging arena in tech: TV. Since 2001, the Xbox has been gaining a foothold in the living room thanks to millions of hard-core...

Shares in luxury retailer Prada plunge more than 8% after the firm warns that sluggish sales in Europe and a maturing China luxury market could hurt profits.

The yen languished at 10-week lows as equity markets rose, denting safe-haven demand for the currency

Strong housing market means lower rates are unlikely and weak jobs growth means higher rates also unlikely

DETROIT (AP) -- General Motors Co. says it will take a charge of $400 million pretax in the first quarter because of a change in the way it values Venezuela's currency.     

Total U.S. money market mutual fund assets fell by $13.12 billion to $2.63 trillion for the week that ended Wednesday, according to the Investment Company Institute.