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Larger players may have locked in to higher prices and will have to bide their time for lower raw material prices to kick in

The Butte Nugget, which weighs 6.07 pounds, was sold for a secret price to a secret buyer. The middleman, however, revealed that the initial asking price was $400,000.

When it comes to Halloween costumes, some fans are willing to drop some serious cash to dress like their favorite characters.  Some people turn to online marketplaces like eBay to find the perfect getup. Market research...

Creatives are those who, by and large, would much rather be dreaming up inspired and imaginative strategies and designs than sitting down looking at P&Ls or dealing with staff issues. Driven to create, they believe that ...

Corvex's Keith Meister, the onetime right-hand man of Carl Icahn, is earning a reputation of his own as an activist investor.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger had anahistoric Sunday, passing for 522 yards, six touchdowns and no interceptions, leading his team to a 51-34 victory over the Indianapolis Col...

Ray Dalio's $160 billion hedge fund behemoth Bridgewater Associates is suing two former employees for allegedly "lying to the market about their former roles" while marketing their new hedge fund to investors, according ...

Though Carmelo Anthony re-signed with the New York Knicks this summer instead of the Lakers, he claims it wasn't because of his hesitancy to play with Kobe Bryant. Last week, ESPN The Magazine released a report quoting L...

While studying at the London College of Communications, photographer Luisa Whitton was commissioned to shoot her dream project: inside the robotics lab of Japanese scientist Hiroshi Ishiguro. Ishiguro is the director of ...

(Reuters) - Investors were spared immediate pain on Sunday after the European Central Bank's landmark banking health check did not force massive capital hikes amongst the euro zone's top lenders. But the sector's long-te...

Dilma Rousseff has won another term as Brazil's President, BBC News is reporting. The election results aren't official yet, but President Rousseff has nearly 51% of the vote with 95% of all ballots counted. Despite alleg...

Among Max Levchin's lessons learned as a young entrepreneur, which are the greatest?

The company says NYLIM Jacob Ballas India Holdings and Jacob Ballas Capital India bought the shares

Sales at Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iTunes Store have fallen 13-14% worldwide since the start of 2014, according to the Wall Street Journal. This decline is much more significant than the paltry drop in revenue of 2.1% that the...

On Sunday, Brazilian President Dima Rouseff won reelection. And as Business Insider's Linette Lopez wrote following the result, Wall Street is not going to be thrilled with this outcome. As Lopez wrote: "Over the last fo...

California's lottery is on a winning streak.

This is a guest post by Shrey Verma, a graduate student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. You can follow him on Twitter at @shrey7.

Travel notables.

Tomato juice is one of the more requested drinks on airplanes. Here's why.

JCPenney's business, which has been increasingly stable since Ron Johnson left the helm in 2013, could be headed for a crash.  The department store is increasingly phasing out brand names for private labels, a move that...

Some MacBook users say the laptops suffer from a manufacturing defect that causes frequent system crashes and graphics failures.

In fewer than 100 days, the Benioff Children's hospital will open in San Francisco, mostly thanks to a huge $200 million donation from Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne. The Benioffs have been working wi...