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The central Brooklyn neighborhood once synonymous with crime attracts home buyers and renters looking to pay less than in nearby areas.

Flickr / Amit Gupta To paraphrase Ben Franklin, death and taxes are certainties. But while death tends to happen only once, taxes happen relentlessly. Every. Single. Year. Dealing with taxes is a recurring pain, no doubt...

Bank of America's Chris Hyzy likes big firms with low debt, good profit margins, and decent dividends.

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NEW YORK (AP) — New York's attorney general has filed a lawsuit asking FanDuel and DraftKings to give back all the money they made in the state, the latest salvo in an ongoing clash with a pair of increasingly popular ...

Seattle's minimum wage takes another step toward $15 an hour on Friday. …

China, the world's second-largest economy, looked set for a weak start to 2016 after activity in the manufacturing sector contracted for a fifth straight month in December.

Mergers and acquisitions hit a record high in 2015, but there were few mega-deals in the technology sector, aside from the frenzy in chip companies and the record pairing of Dell and EMC Corp. If some of tech's other big...

Reuters In 2008, during the nadir of the financial crisis, one Barclays trader was already $200 million in the hole and staring at a deal he called an "unavoidable abyss." But miraculously, Bob Henderson, then Barclays'�...

Mike Segar/Reuters Amazon.com, now a $331 billion online powerhouse, is one of the most successful companies of the past several decades, and shares have multiplied an astounding 710 times since the company went public i...

California's business climate has been a perpetual target of ridicule. Out-of-state politicians and critics of the state's regulations have delighted in depicting California as an inhospitable place to do business. The G...

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The activist fund wants to break up or sell the business-development company and thinks it's worth about 45% more than its share price suggests.

A management consultant is driven by ROI and efficiency. A death star is neither of those.

Uber issued plenty of advance warnings before New Year's Eve, but that didn't stop passengers from complaining about the ride-hailing app's surge pricing -- which sent fares skyrocketing in hot spots around the world. Al...

After a year of disappointment in everything from U.S. stocks to emerging markets and junk bonds, investors are approaching 2016 with low expectations.

Russia will file a lawsuit against Ukraine, the Russian finance ministry said, after Kiev failed to repay a $3 billion Eurobond and $75 million in interest by Dec. 31.

Here are the 10 most blatantly wasteful defense items in the recent $1.8 trillion spending bill.

Russia said Friday that it was giving Ukraine a "discount" on natural gas prices, but further declines in energy prices will likely make the $17.8 savings a moot point anyway. Bonus for trying to be nice to Kyiv, though,...

Star Wars creator George Lucas had reasons for apologizing for comparing Disney to "white slavers." Approximately two billion of them.

With the first trading day of the New Year upon us, it’s time to clean up that portfolio. Get rid of those dividend dogs, and replace them with winners that’ll boost payouts and appreciate in price in the year ahead.