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People just don't like the stock market, and they probably won't for a long time. Since the end of the financial crisis, individual investors have invested nearly nothing in the stock market in aggregate. Individual inv...

Justin Sullivan / Getty Images This post from Julie Lythcott-Haims originally appeared on Quora as an answer to the question "What are the skills every 18-year-old needs?" 1. An 18-year-old must be able to talk to stran...

Over the past decade, interest has grown in an ostensibly unorthodox approach for helping people who don’t have much money: just give them more of it, no strings attached.   In the old days of policymaking by aphorism...

An Oxfam America report reveals that the 50 largest U.S. corporations have hidden $1.4 trillion in offshore tax havens. Yet, the same corporations are the beneficiaries of big tax breaks and lower tax rates instead of th...

AP Stocks rallied last week to move near their best levels of the year.  The Dow and the Nasdaq rose 1.8% while the benchmark S&P 500 was up 1.6%. The Dow is now just a bit more than 400 points away from a new record hi...

The Latest on issues the Alaska legislature is handling during the final days of the scheduled 90-day session (all times local): …

Elissa Murphy helped build out GoDaddy's cloud infrastructure. Will it do as well without her?

Check out the gooey, cheesy goodness NOW WATCH: How the Bible has changed over the past 2,000 years

TV show's 'big reveal' revealed big problems, lawsuit contends Deena Murphy and Timothy Sullivan contend 'reality show' is 'fantasy' The HGTV series' production company considers allegations 'false' …

San Francisco is now requiring some 37,000 Uber and Lyft drivers who operate in the city and work seven or more days a year to secure a license. A license fee of $91 shall be paid by drivers who earn less than $100,000 a...

For many years, precious metal commodity investors have screamed over certain price movements. Then came the convictions and penalties for the banks involved in the Libor rigging scandal, which gave the gold and silver t...

Matt Cardy / Getty Most friendships develop so naturally that you don't even realize how or when they started. Sometimes, though, you want to make an effort to befriend a new acquaintance or become a better friend to...

Millions of taxpayers face a midnight deadline Monday to file their tax returns, while millions of others will ask for more time --a six-month extension. There was a three-day delay beyond the traditional April 15 deadli...

Alarm bells are ringing for one of OPEC's strongest members NOW WATCH: This 7-minute fitness routine is all you need to get in shape

With black hoods over their heads, five people trapped in a chain-link enclosure listen to an ominous monologue. "Hello, my delicious friends," the voice purrs. "I've lived here for five years, and I've spent much of tha...

Hollywood comes out to see the real stars: the scientists of Parker's new $250 million institute

It's hard to find a more sympathetic foreclosure story than Kathleen Conrad's. The disabled widow of a Marine who served in Vietnam, Conrad, 66, lives in a rundown Westchester house the couple bought in 1999, realizing t...

Left out of the Paris climate agreement, which is to be signed at the United Nations this week, the two industries nonetheless face pressure to be greener.

A meeting of ministers from the world's largest oil producing countries ended in Doha, Qatar without an agreement on how to tackle chronic oversupply, as Saudi Arabia and Iran refused to budge from their respective posit...

Increasing the timescale of its expansion will reduce impact of expansion on earnings, but whether this will bring back investors' confidence is a moot question

Operating profit margin of courier and package distribution firm Blue Dart came in at 11%, an 87 basis points decline when compared with last year

Here's evidence that SIPs will grow the monthly savings that you invest into the equity markets