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Sweet Briar College in Virginia, a 114-year-year old private, women's liberal arts school that was slated to close at the end of the summer, has received a reprieve and will remain open for another year with new leadersh...

U.S. stocks are near record highs. Just how bad would your losses be if the market drops?

What exactly does it mean for a big Wall Street bank to plead guilty to a serious crime? Right now, practically nothing. But it will if California's Santa Cruz County has any say. First, some background. Five giant banks...

Startup culture thriving all over the continent

If reasonable limits aren't established now -- and codified either formally or as an expected standard practice -- abuses of the system are bound to happen. And bad stuff invariable follows, for both parties.

The weekly Baker Hughes oil rig count was released Friday, and for the 28th straight week, the number of active rigs in the US dropped. But those 28 weeks of declines were not equally dismal. From December through early ...

The small customer is toast at US banks. Banks are chasing the fast buck -- and "gouging" their retail customers with hefty new charges, overdraft fees and service cuts to...

Dwayne Johnson's new HBO series "Ballers" begins Sunday night. Johnson plays a former pro football player who becomes a financial advisor for current athletes. This sparks us to ask once again, how on earth does he main...

China's economic slowdown isn't just bad for China. It's bad for everyone who trades with China. GDP growth has slowed from 10.4% annually in 2011 to 7.4% last year. According to the World Bank, this number should contin...

Arianna Huffington has yet to turn a profit at her Huffington Post, which is being sold along with its parent company, AOL, to Verizon, but now she has a new...

A new batch of emails and documents related to the Sony hack from November has been uploaded to WikiLeaks, showing a deal that the company made with Apple, as well as a number of settlements that it made.

ROME (AP) -- Italian prosecutors are seeking to indict 297 people and the Bank of China in connection with a massive money-laundering investigation reported by The Associated Press earlier this month. The suspects, mostl...

Antony Jenkins, the boss of British bank Barclays, emailed the entire company on Friday and told them they can all have one extra day of holiday a year.  Sources close to Barclays told Business Insider that Jenkins emai...

China's ruling Communist Party has made it clear that it has a mortal enemy: social unrest. Separately, it has also made it clear that the Chinese people should be heavily invested in the stock market. And so, dutifully,...

If you are a bank, why lend money and put it at risk when you can simply gouge your customers for profit? Banks have been hurt by a raft of...

Turn off the phone, unplug the tablet and enjoy the summer. That's what an increasing number of executives are not doing. Indeed, in the midst of a technological revolution, many...

NEW YORK (AP) -- After getting the cold shoulder, U.S. health insurer Anthem Inc. said it's raising its offer to buy smaller rival Cigna Corp. for $54 billion, including debt. Indianapolis-based Anthem said Saturday it's...

Last year, before HBO's True Detective premiered I wrote a piece about the way the series could change the way you’ll watch television. And it turns out that it did that and more. Not only because of its sheer excellen...

From the moment Jeff Costellia first joined a big firm after graduating from law school, he had one destination in mind: the corner office.It wasn't just the palatial space, the private conference table, the windows and ...

This is an image of a "male parking station" in a mall in Turkey. A group of men recline on the sofa in various states of tedium while (presumably) their female partners are off merrily flexing their credit cards. What's...

Tesla's high stock price and need for cash to fuel its ambitions are a risky combination for investors.

European leaders' talks on Monday could determine whether Greece seals a last-gasp deal or ends up under capital controls. The hurdles remain formidable.