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It's tough to be a short seller when stocks are advancing, but for this hedge fund, it has paid off handsomely.

Funds' use of leverage could add to a "super spike," pushing down stocks and boosting volatility.

John Loo/Flickr We make thousands of decisions each day, according to some estimates. Not all of them are equally important. Deciding what pants to wear and how to support a friend in need require different amounts of at...

Sri Lanka's government has signed a long-delayed agreement to sell a 70-percent stake in a $1.5 billion port to China in a bid to recover from the heavy burden of …

A market pro's take on what to do when central-bank policies are force-feeding risk assets to investors.

Redfin Corp. gave birth on Friday, and the baby (IPO) was showered with love from Wall Street. Shares, trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol RDFN, soared 45 percent, to $21.70. Redfin, a real...

A $467,000 grant will help the Monroe Police Department fund new equipment purchases to help fight violent crime. The News-Star reports the Victim of Crimes Act grant will fund 150 …

Caterpillar's stock shoots up as the second-straight quarter of revenue growth marked the end of the previous sales recession and the start of a new expansion trend.

Those who play in the global sandbox have seen some truly spectacular returns, especially folks who hold closed-end funds that invest in foreign stocks.

Industrials that delivered that holy grail of earnings season--the beat and raise--had dropped 1% on average.

Grocers and independent brick-and-mortar retailers uttered a collective gulp the day Amazon announced it had acquired Whole Foods for a whopping $13.7 billion dollars. How can local merchants and e-commerce businesses st...

Stocks set records, IPOs surge, and companies load up on cheap debt. The problem: There are a lot of pricey assets out there.

The wheels are coming off the wagon at Wells Fargo again. The beleaguered bank, which lost its CEO last year because of a wide-ranging fake accounts scandal, admitted that it has overcharged about 800,000 of its customer...

In the Northamptonshire town, charities and council workers face the daily consequences of the rising spiral of borrowing sweeping across the UK Corby in Northamptonshire has taken on a few notable titles over the years....

Federal prosecutors in North Texas have accused a man of trying to extort several online companies by threatening them with cyberattacks. U.S. Attorney John Parker says 32-year-old Kamyar Jahanrakhshan was …

Competition is catching up with Starbucks at home and abroad, as the hype and the buzz for the brand is cooling off.

Sprint Chairman Masayoshi Son seeks to create media and communications giant controlled by SoftBank, sources say.

The prices of different products and services can grow at very different rates -- and these ones are getting pricey fast.        

Treating airline passengers well pays off. That's the conclusion, which may sound painfully obvious, reached in a study released this week by Watermark Consulting, a Connecticut firm that works with companies to improve ...

FTSE Russell is trying to make sure investors have their say in how companies are run, after Snap helped kick off a trend of tech companies giving public investors little to no say.

You no longer need to be a billion dollar company to pursue new discoveries

Uber and Lyft, the two leading ride-hailing companies, are becoming even more popular among business travelers while taxis and car rentals are falling further behind. But don't count out the taxi industry just yet. Busin...