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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Energy-related master limited partnerships such as Linn Energy and NGL Energy Partners have been slammed by the drop in oil prices, but Goldman Sachs thinks that may present a buying opportunity....

Oil and gas has been an exclamation point for General Electric Co. in recent years, as the company sought to take advantage of global demand for new energy resources. Now it's starting to look like a question mark.

A spiraling currency crisis, fueled by the bite of Western sanctions and the plummeting price of oil, spurred Russia's central bank to raise interest rates late Monday, a drastic move aimed at shoring up the collapsing r...

Housing starts fell 1.6% in November, the latest sign of an uneven housing recovery.

Venezuela is on the verge of a political collapse, exacerbated by falling oil prices, but caused by a growing rift within the Chavista regime and its opposing factions.

NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- McDonald's , Burger King and Starbucks  all were reminded this year of fast food's golden rule: Price matters. After some high-profile new fast food launches late in 2013, McDonald's, Burger Kin...

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National business banking lender CIT Group Inc. stands to collect more than $1.4 billion from federal regulators to cover future losses should its purchase of OneWest Bank in Pasadena be approved.

Developing countries are losing more money through corruption and tax evasion than they receive in international aid, a new report shows. According to a new report from Washington, D.C.-based advisory firm Global Financi...

Ahead of the Tape: The central bank is largely expected to raise rates in mid-2015, but the recent dramatic slide in oil prices is muddying that picture.

Zagat has announced the results of its survey of the best restaurants in San Francisco this year. Greek eatery Kokkari Estiatorio took home first-place honors in the food category this year, dethroning Gary Danko for the...

At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed 3,607 13F filings for the 09/30/2014 reporting period, and looked at the various S&P 500 components held by each of these reporting hedge funds and other 13F filers. For each compone...

ThyssenKrupp is working on a cable-free elevator that would allow multiple cars to run in the same shaft, and to sideways and diagonally as well as up and down.

Try these random acts of kindness to show your employees they are working at a fun (and slightly surprising) office.

Wal-Mart has a long history of stealing ideas from competitors. In a recent interview, Wal-Mart Stores CEO Doug McMillon said the tradition is part of the retailer's "DNA." "I mean going all the way back to [Wal-Mart fou...

The company's new funding will primarily be used to launch a marketing campaign.

(Reuters) - India's trade deficit widened to an 18-month high in November as demand for machinery and transport equipment soared, bolstering hopes of a sustained recovery in Asia's third-largest economy. Higher gold impo...

"In some cases MPs are approached 100 times a week by lobbyists" (D. Cameron - February 2010) About the time, in 2010, that David Cameron was saying that the "£2billion" lobbying industry was the "next big scandal waiti...

Quick: How many people know who Boris Lushniak is?Lushniak is the acting surgeon general who has been serving during one of the worst public health scares in recent memory, the Ebola virus outbreak, and who will now be r...

The Russian currency has become the top casualty of the continuing fall in oil prices even as the country battles Western sanctions

In trading on Tuesday, music & electronics stores shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 3%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of Radioshack (RSH), off about 9.8% and shares of Conns (CONN) down ...

With just four days to go before the scheduled closing of Atlantic City's Trump Taj Mahal, the CEO of the casino's parent has written a letter to investor Carl Icahn...