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Some corporate spinoffs unlock value, but others sharply underperform. How to spot winners and sinners. Also, trouble at Chemours.

By Menelaos Hadjicostis and Nicholas PaphitisATHENS, Greece -- Greece invited the International Monetary Fund on Friday to participate in its negotiations with European creditors over a vital third bailout -- talks that ...

Warren Buffett has positioned Berkshire Hathaway to prosper long after he steps down as CEO.

Twenty-two heavyweight Wall Street firms took part in a "massive conspiracy" to rig the $12.5 trillion Treasury market auctions for six years, a lawsuit filed this week alleges. The suit,...

Nike used to eat companies like Under Armour for lunch. Over the years, Converse, Reebok, Adidas and a host of lightweight wannabes each tried to knock Phil Knight's Swoosh off...

GUEST: When oil is cheap, operators have to figure out how to produce it more efficiently. Silicon Valley brains are helping them do just that.

When deciding whether to enforce a non-compete agreement, courts will carefully consider the facts, including the nature of your business.

Here are some legitimate ways to snag a seat in first class that don't take advantage of cancellation policies.

Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) is scheduled to release its second quarter of fiscal year 2015 (2QFY15) earnings after markets close on Tuesday, July 28. The company is expected to beat the Street on both its top and bottom line...

Stocks have been on an absolute tear since they bottomed out in 2009: But since the market peaked in early 2000, U.S. stocks haven’t really done much for investors as we’ve gone through a series of booms and busts: O...

Google proclaims itself the protector of startups against patent trolls. Here is what the Internet search firm plans to do.

Peabody Energy Corporation (NYSE:BTU), one of the most actively traded stocks on the New York Stock Exchange, has been performing poorly over the past year, owing to challenging industry conditions. Over the last 12-mont...

There is a new world order coming to Wall Street.  Startups are taking on the financial sector. Some of the companies look to usurp traditional players, and others step into the gaps they've left behind.  Business I...

The aircraft-leasing company suffers from worries about slowing economic growth, but has sustainable tail winds.

Lollapalooza will fill Grant Park with hundreds of thousands of people next weekend, the latest event that - like the Pitchfork Musical Festival and the Grateful Dead's farewell concerts at Soldier Field before it - puts...

The CEO is reducing the aluminum maker's sensitivity to commodity prices by focusing on more-profitable specialty products; 17,000 ways to improve.

Mangrove Founder Nathaniel August has posted top returns by searching everywhere for deals. Now he thinks Puerto Rican debt might provide some.

Bad news from IBM, Apple, Caterpillar, 3M, and others cratered stock indexes last week. United Technologies is down, but not out.

The US national archives just released more than 300 never-bef0re-seen photos of the Bush administration, taken just after the September 11, 2001 attacks.  The photos — taken by the Vice Presidential photographer and...

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We pay many insurance premiums throughout our lives for a multitude of different risks. But should you always file an insurance claim?

Companies in the Washington area are allocating smaller portions of their budgets toward employee benefits and are more likely to sponsor less-expensive perks such as wellness programs, tuition reimbursement and maternit...