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Goldman Sachs lowered the top end of its range of "reasonably possible" legal expenses to about $2 billion, the Wall Street firm said in a regulatory filing.

Shares rose in Europe and Asia, while sterling fell against the dollar and euro on concerns Britain may leave the European Union.

HSBC said it swung to a fiscal fourth-quarter loss from a year-earlier profit, adding fuel to investor concerns that slowing growth in Asia will spark a rise in bad loans and lower revenue for the bank and its rivals.

A $2 billion market is small potatoes for a big publicly-traded company like IBM. But it can be a gold mine for a startup.

Companies stash billions offshore exempt from U.S. taxes, but not American citizens, who are tax on their worldwide income and assets, even if they remain overseas. And FATCA and FBARs require that you report it all.

Sysco agreed to pay $3.1 billion in the deal, which will be subject to review by European Union competition authorities.

Yahoo! is quietly hiring advisers that specialize in defense against cage-rattling shareholders -- even as it responds to investor demands that it put itself up for sale, The Post has learned. The struggling Web portal -...

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A total of 125 African tech startups attracted $185-million in funding in 2015, according to a new report, which shows there is significant funding in solar, fintech and ecommerce projects.

Investors aren't worrying nearly enough about how markets will play out between now and the U.K.'s referendum on whether to leave the European Union.

Marijuana, best-known for its "feel-good" effects and touted for its ability to relieve various symptoms of illness and disease, can also be damaging, especially when overused. When weed's active ingredient, tetrahydroca...

Chevron stock jumped 2 percent in the opening minutes of trading, one of the biggest gains in the Dow Jones industrial average.

Technology and finance were both ranked in the middle third, with 56% and 57% of respective respondents feeling their employers treat them as they do men.

Wall Street has long wondered what would happen if a wave of refinancing met with a weakened junk-bond market; Toys 'R' Us will be an early test case.

The Samsung Galaxy S7, the LG G5, super-fast Verizon 5G--they are all on the horizon.

The Human Face of Big Data, a new documentary, is a paean to information technology and computerization.

Many stock investors have been pricing in a U.S. recession, but Wall Street is hoping incoming data this week reduces contraction fears.          

Argentina will be an interesting country for investors to watch in 2016. Like the rest of Latin America, Argentina faces a difficult external environment for commodity exports. Argentina posted a $3 billion trade deficit...

ICICI, India's largest private-sector bank, should be able to withstand the pain from cleaning up its loan book.

Bank of America Corp. is rolling out a new-mortgage product that would allow borrowers to make down payments of as little as 3%, in a move that would represent an end run around a government agency that punished the bank...

After a year of rancorous debate, two dozen members of the Bitcoin community forged an agreement in Hong Kong. The currency rose to highs not seen since mid-January.

Complaint filed in federal court alleges fraud and breach of contract in ousting of founder Plaintiff seeks $10 million in compensatory damages and $30 million in punitive damages …