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The Wall Street veteran interviews a wise colleague who argues that tech and biotech is where the action is.

Amid sluggish user growth and ineffective monetization concerns, Dick Costolo resigned as Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) CEO June 11. Since then, the micro-blogging site has tasked its CEO search team with finding a suitable ca...

Real-estate magnate Donald Trump fired off angry tweets at one of his GOP rivals in the presidential race Wednesday, accusing him of being a has-been who couldn't get elected to office again. The rival, former New York G...

NEW YORK (The Deal) -- French private equity shop Astorg Partners is in exclusive negotiations to sell its smart-card connectors maker Linxens SAS to Luxembourg-based buyout heavyweight CVC Capital Partners Group, after ...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Oasis Petroleum were falling 6.6% to $14.81 Wednesday as oil prices decline after U.S. inventory data showed an increase in crude oil stockpiles. WTI crude oil for August delivery was d...

Sports sponsorship announcements tend to be banal affairs. There's usually a boring press conference where nobody says anything of interest. And then there's the photoshoot where the team's manager and the sponsor's CEO...

Minutes after Macy's announced it was severing business ties with Donald Trump, the real-estate mogul and GOP presidential candidate said it was his decision to leave Macy's.  Macy's and Trump cut ties in the days 700,0...

FORBES dug up 33 new billionaire clans for its 2015 list of America's Richest Families. Among them, the families behind OxyContin, Tootsie Roll, Chick-fil-A, Grey Goose vodka and the fourth largest wine producer in the U...

The I.M.F. does not use the term default. But missing the payment might lead to a situation in which other Greek debts are classified as defaults.

It is unfortunate that journalists sensationalize the numbers to foster distrust not just in pharmaceutical companies but in the medical community as well.

If you know anything about the US propaganda campaign during World War II, you probably know about Frank Capra's brilliant Why We Fight series, with animations by the Walt Disney studio--and maybe you even know Disney's ...

Athens holds a vote on bailout terms on Sunday.          

Uber passengers in China are taking a million trips every day. Four of Uber's 10 biggest cities are in China, CEO Travis Kalanick told investors in an email obtained by the Financial Times last month. Uber operates in 11...

Globe-trotting business consultant Frank Friedman of Deloitte LLP says Americans have to adjust to new ways of doing business and keep their skills sharp to stay ahead in an intensively competitive global economy.

The upcoming iPhone refresh cycle has prompted many to say that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) would suffer a decline in its present iPhone lineup; however, sell-side analysts are divided on the notion. One analyst bases his v...

Getting better deals while shopping online is as easy as not buying anything ... right away.  In "Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody," William Poundstone explains how ...

Macy's said Wednesday that it will discontinue its business relationship with Donald Trump, removing from its stores a collection of ties and other menswear that the chain has carried since 2004.The department store said...

A Viennese court dismissed a legal complaint made by an Austrian rights activist against Facebook Inc(NASDAQ:FB) on Wednesday. Max Schrems a 27 year old recent law graduate from Austria was the rights activist in questio...

In  January, there was a lot of chatter at the Detroit Auto Show about how General Motors had unveiled a "Tesla killer" in its new Bolt, a compact electric car with a range of 200 miles and a price tag of $30,000. Tesla...

ATHENS, Greece -- Capital controls, which include bank closures to limits on how much people can withdraw from ATMs, have made headlines around the world this week. But there actually seems to be relatively little panic ...

After a decade of economic stagnation and high unemployment, Puerto Rico is at a precipice of insolvency with no way to pay off its massive $73 billion debt. The commonwealth's politicians, policymakers and populace all ...