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Credit cards often get a bad rap. "There is no positive side to credit card use," personal finance guru Dave Ramsey wrote on his website. He has a good point, as our consumer-driven society makes it incredibly easy to sp...

Avoid these common misunderstandings when selling your business.          

Four years after it first listed for sale, the Napa estate of late actor and comedian Robin Williams has sold for $18.1 million in an all-cash deal. The 640-acre property, called Villa Sorriso for "villa of smiles," retu...

The terms of the proposal call for the island's creditors to exchange the debt they now hold for two new classes of bonds that would delay payments of principal and interest.

The U.S. stock market remains tethered to oil but Friday’s action offered another gentle reminder: global stock and economic moves reach U.S. shores quickly. Watch for continued attention on Asian economies and markets...

Scott Black, William Priest, Meryl Witmer like the undervalued, including Foot Locker, CVS Health, Axalta.

Friday's move shows the BOJ?s resolve to fight deflation, but some problems still persist over monetary policy and the central bank itself.

Wall Street's chilly January ended on a hot streak. Stocks shot up by the most in five months on Friday, finishing with the biggest one-day gain of the year after Japan took more steps to boost its economy. The Dow Jones...

Mallika Sukjaro's business expertise is in supply chain management, so it's not as big a stretch as you might think for this Thai entrepreneur to open a fast casual chain that sources its ingredients in Thailand and empl...

President Barack Obama said Saturday he'll ask Congress for billions of dollars to help students learn computer science skills and prepare for jobs in a changing economy. …

For more than a year, a crucial question has gone unanswered on Santa Catalina Island: Who will control the freight service that brings bottled water, groceries and other essentials from the mainland, 26 miles away? Thre...

State regulators have proposed a $7,000 fine for a western Michigan company in the death of an employee who got caught in a robotic machine. …

The market features a lot of bearish short-term trades but doesn't reflect fears of imminent economic collapse.

Ever since World War II the U.S. government’s weather service has given official human names to tropical cyclones (hurricanes and typhoons). Everybody knows that. But am I the only one who didn’t know we were anthrop...

Looking for your tax refund? Here's what you need to know.

Switzerland's top prosecutor said $4 billion may have been misappropriated from state-owned companies in Malaysia, a significant escalation of an investigation into transactions around government fund 1MDB.

How Jack Dorsey at Twitter got it right firing half of his executive team.

The subscription beauty service has decided to lay off some of its employees, citing a difficult funding environment and steep shipping prices to Canada.

Finalizing a divorce? By now you've heard all of the clichéd advice: 'there are other fish in the sea' or 'this is the beginning of the rest of your life.' Meant to make you feel better, that advice doesn't provide you ...

epSos .de/Flickr The New York Times editorial board is taking aim at corporate tax dodgers. Through a process called inversion, American companies merge with smaller companies located in regions where taxes are lower, li...

A federal contractor says it plans to close its Comanche County office and eliminate 124 jobs. …

If the market’s winter of discontent has a silver lining, it’s this: dividend yields have lurched skyward, while value measures such as price-to-earnings ratios have sunk.