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Once prized as a precious metal that could be put to practical use, silver is now getting the worst of both worlds.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The Chemours Company shares are up by 10.88% to $10.50 in late morning trading on Thursday, after the performance chemical provider announced plans to slash costs by $350 million by 2017. The comp...

Bank of America has been the key focus of many investors ever since the banking sector picked up its pace in the second quarter of this year. After a good start to the year, the overall industry saw a downfall in stock m...

The streaming service has snagged half the number of Spotify's paid users. But will they stick around once the free trial is up? Apple executives say that 11 million subscribers have signed up for Apple Music's free tria...

The Greek stockmarket, closed this the latest crisis, reopened this week and promptly plunged. The post Greek stockmarket re-opens - and crashes was first published on MoneyWeek.

The mobile payments company just added a second woman to its board of directors.

Arby's: It's like your stomach got punched in the balls.  Arby's: Because your hunger is stronger than your memory.  Arby's: It's the Sean Hannity of fast food. These are just a few (paraphrased) digs outgoing "The Dai...

Aramark -- the largest US food-service provider at schools, businesses, hospitals, sports and entertainment venues -- will work with the American Heart Association to make its meals more healthy, the...

Does the Federal Reserve know something that the rest of us don't? "The labor market continued to improve, with solid job gains and declining unemployment," the central bank said right...

A contemporary-style home in River Forest that reputed mob boss Joseph Andriacchi owned until 1996 sold on June 30 for $1.209 million.

Any company can create explosive growth, if you overcome bias toward historical business and put your money into trends and listen carefully to customer needs

Thursday, August 6 marks 50 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The seminal legislation made racial discrimination in voting illegal. But it also came after years of bloody, an...

Jennifer Aniston and her fiancé of almost three years, actor-writer Justin Theorux, got married this weekend at their Bel Air home. The 70-person guest list included Howard Stern, Jason Bateman, Lisa Kudrow, Sia Fur...

Media stocks were getting hammered Thursday after earnings reports made clear there is subscriber exodus happening.

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) is set to acquire Merge Healthcare Inc. (NASDAQ:MRGE), which is a leading provider of medical image handling and processing, in a deal worth $1 billion. The acquisition wi...

NEW YORK (The Deal) -- CF Industries Holdings Inc. said Thursday it would acquire the European and North American assets of OCI NV in an $8 billion deal that would great a massive global supplier of nitrogen fertilizers....

Memo cites concern over illiquid investments and elevated volatility in manager's Advantage Fund.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- I don't own a coffee table. But if I did, I would know the perfect book for it: The Great Minds of Investing by William Green with photography by Michael O'Brien and produced by Hendrik Leber. Mea...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- James Murdoch, the newly appointed CEO of 21st Century Fox , could use a lift. It's been a tough week for media stocks. Buffeted by more evidence of declining advertising revenue, New York-based ...

But it's not airborne--yet. Flying and suitcases go hand in hand, so it makes sense that the German luxury luggage brand Rimowa has added an airplane to its arsenal of goods. But instead of designing a sleek contemporary...

Relativity Media founder Ryan Kavanaugh blames everybody but himself for the collapse of his Hollywood studio. The CEO lashed out at the studio's creditors and their publicists for betraying the...

When Disney's ESPN sneezes, the rest of the media industry gets a cold. Investors fled media stocks on Wednesday after the Mouse House said it would revise downward its guidance...