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The American International Group -- an insurance agency better known as AIG -- posted a set of disappointing fourth quarter earnings results Thursday afternoon, revealing that its profit fell 67% and failed to meet Wall ...

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Our friend @GSElevator spotted an old job listing on LinkedIn for an "Executive Protection Specialist" at JPMorgan Chase (a.k.a. a bodyguard for CEO Jamie Dimon).  Defensive skills and at least 10 years of law enforceme...

On Thursday, Yahoo fired somewhere between 100 to 200 of its employees. The company is calling the cuts a "restructuring" and not a layoff. To many Yahoo employees, it felt like a classic layoff -- the kind the company h...

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Businesses are growing increasingly frustrated by obstacles to Internet access, according to a survey by the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China.

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Freescale Semiconductor are up 8.07% to $37.50 in pre-market trade after it was reported that the company that provides microcontrollers and digital networking processors, is up for sal...

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Kraft Foods shares are down 3.13% to $64.10 in trading on Friday following the release of the food processor's fourth quarter earnings results as the company reported a net loss while also announc...

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba -- five months after a successful $25 billion IPO -- will not give employees their typical Lunar New Year gift this year, disappointed workers discovered Friday....

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Soaring UK house prices are not an omen that Britain is in a housing bubble. Some people think the 56% surge in property prices over the last decade is an indicator that these massive highs will be followed by a massive ...

American Express shares plunged after the company said its co-brand and merchant agreements with Costco in US stores will end next year. The stock dropped 6.4 percent to $80.48 at...

Harvey Goldschmid, a former SEC official and securities-law expert who helped guide the response to the accounting scandals of the early 2000s, died. He was 74.

Fiscal second-quarter sales rose 7% to $11.9 billion, and profit excluding some items was 53 cents a share

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- On CNBC's "Cramer's Stop Trading" segment, TheStreet's Jim Cramer looked at shale oil producer Apache , calling it a very inexpensive stock because they have great production and growth, and they...

Since the accidental leak, many have wondered just how many episodes were going to be featured in House of Cards season three. Well, now we have our answer.

Analysts were expecting net profit at Rs3,326.3 crore for the December ended quarter

ARTEMIVSK, Ukraine (AP) -- Fierce fighting surged Friday in eastern Ukraine as Russian-backed separatists mounted a major, sustained offensive to capture a strategic railway hub ahead of a weekend cease-fire deadline. At...