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The mortgage bill is coming due for Standard & Poor's. The ratings agency, which allegedly fattened its bottom line during the housing boom by inflating the creditworthiness of residential mortgage...

The price of sorghum, a long-overlooked grain, has jumped to a premium above corn amid a flood of orders from Chinese buyers.

eBay just released its Q4 earnings and announced it plans to cut 2,400 jobs to simplify its organizational structure. That's about 7% of its total workforce across eBay and PayPal. The cut wasn't unexpected. It comes fo...

Police in New York say James Rhein, 48, rented a bulldozer to raze his home.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock has increased 10% ever since the company unveiled the new variants of the iPhone in September last year. And if Morgan Stanley is to be believed, the stock may have further upside left, due...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam is America's richest politician.

President Barack Obama's feisty ad libs steal the show during his State of the Union address and suggest he has no plans to be cowed by the new Republican majority.

One currency broker is paying a high price for money. FXCM, which found itself on the wrong end of the Swiss franc trade last week when the currency made unprecedented...

Press Release:Behavioral Recognition Systems, Inc. (BRS Labs), creator of AISight®, the artificial intelligence-based analytics solution that teaches itself to recognize and alert on unexpected patterns within massive v...

The blogosphere is changing fashion as we know it. Particularly when they command big audiences, bloggers play an important role for companies who want to connect with their customers. While online journalists have long ...

Accounting software giant Intuit would seem to have two distinct focuses right now. Firstly it is seeking a massive expansion into developing nations - in particular Brazil and India. Secondly, on its home turf of the US...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) --Shares of Laredo Petroleum are higher in morning trading, up 7.44% to $9.68 today with oil prices gaining Wednesday, as traders took positions ahead of U.S. inventory data and the European Central...

Everyone wants to achieve success, but what does that mean? The truth is, everyone has a different definition of success, and in order to achieve, you first need to understand exactly what success means for you.

More than three in five said the US economy is improving while 40% saw global output as deteriorating, says a Bloomberg poll

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As we begin 2015, the accounting profession industry is changing rapidly. One of the leading authorities in the accounting industry, Joseph Tarasco, president of Accountants Advisory Group, shares his predictions and ide...

By Julie Murphy

President Barack Obama declares an end to the U.S. economic crisis as he makes the case to Americans, and a skeptical Congress, that now is time to shift focus to lagging progress among the middle class.

How do you kill a zombie department store? That's what Macy's wants to figure out in a hurry. The mall-anchor giant appears headed to court in its long-running trademark dispute...

President Barack Obama delivered a rather unexpected applause line during his State of the Union address Tuesday night. "I have no more campaigns to run," Obama said, attempting to proceed to the next sentence. However, ...

Family Dollar shareholders have a tough decision: choose a higher, riskier bid from Dollar General or a lower, safer bid from Dollar Tree.