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Entertainment banker Lisbeth Barron is going it alone. The former partner at Bear Stearns and Centerview is setting out her own shingle after completing a ton of big deals during...

One of the statistical touchstones for left-leaning economists is the run of figures showing that US workers have suffered three decades of flat wages. There is no better way to illustrate how capitalism, marching to its...

Like most Cubans, Alejandro Portieles spent much of his life in government jobs. He started as a veterinarian, crisscrossing the island’s ruddy roads to tend to cows, horses and other animals at government farms. He la...

Taking a cue from the airline industry, hotels are squeezing customers with higher nightly rates as well as extra guest fees, such as charges to check in early and to guarantee you get the room you want.

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Global fears about China's economic slowdown have rocked equity markets around the world the past few weeks, and while many stocks, and even entire sectors, have remained in a slump since the country's so-called Black Mo...

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NORWOOD, Mass. (AP) -- Donald Trump insults and exaggerates. He dismisses the need for public policy ideas, gets confused about world affairs and sometimes says things that flat out aren't true. And the cheers from his s...

Former Republican vice presidential nominee and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin thinks she'd make a good Secretary of Energy. Her first order of business if she would be appointed to head the Department of Energy? Get rid...

 McDonalds will start serving breakfast all day starting next month, which could foreseeably affect the egg market. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms....

We all know Facebook is huge. But it may be even bigger than you realize.          

Winning the lotto certainly doesn't make you smarter. (Or, not in the case of the winners named in this article.) Regardless of the issues that winning a windfall may bring, lottery winners can also provide some importan...

The stock markets continue to get whipsawed. Stocks plunged on Monday and Tuesday, bounced back on Wednesday, burbled along on Thursday, and then got slammed on Friday after the jobs report. All the major US indices clo...

There's a new risk looming over Europe: right-wing nationalism.  In a note to clients on Friday, analysts at Berenberg took a look at the possibility of emerging right-wing nationalist parties running on platforms of l...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Dozens of white balloons drifted over Vancouver's harbor to honor the young Syrian boys whose deaths at sea sparked worldwide outrage about the refugee crisis. The boys' aunt, Tima Kur...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Two anti-corruption organizations are accusing Afghanistan's government of failing to take action to protect its vital mining sector from graft and conflict. Global Witness and Integrity Watch ...

BEIJING (AP) -- China's central bank governor has told a meeting of the G-20 that China's currency has stabilized against the dollar after the country's surprise announcement last month to revalue the yuan amid stock mar...

People have been getting bond market liquidity all wrong. That's according to Krishna Memani, the chief investment officer and head of fixed income at investment management firm OppenheimerFunds, which manages around $22...

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In a tweet this week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk declared that the company's first Model X SUVs would be delivered to customers on Sept. 29. In doing so, Musk made good on a promise to get the Model X to market in the third-qu...

As our James Covert points out, fashion can be fickle, and so can the PR departments of fashion firms. Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet announced last week she is leaving as...