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Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters India and China are forming an oil buyer's club, a formation that could stand to threaten OPEC's strong position in the oil market. The boom in US oil production is giving the two countries the ...

Jan Zahradka/Shutterstock There’s something about "French-girl style" that is endlessly intriguing to anyone who is not from France. Many Americans, in particular, seem to fawn over the wardrobe choices of stylish Fren...

It's only July, but Christmas is fast approaching for U.S. retailers -- and the threat of an escalating trade war with China has industries that have so far been spared increasingly worried their goods will be next on th...

CK Ma/ Shutterstock Who doesn't waste money? We all pay too much at times because we want somethingright now. And on occasion, if we’re being honest with ourselves,we buy things we don'treallyneed. Sometimes, though, w...

The fundraising is a sign of the rise in the anti-money-laundering market, which is expected to reach $4.26 trillion worldwide in less than a decade.

The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, expects to bring in as much as $1 billion in profit in the course of 2018, Bloomberg reports. The exchange has netted $300 million in profits since the start of 2018 ...

Interest in the country's largest radio company is growing, The Post has learned. Private equity firm Silver Lake Partners has recently shown interest in buying the bankrupt iHeartMedia operation -- challenging John Malo...

Google Street View A one-acre dirt lot in Palo Alto, California, is selling for a whopping $15 million. The property's future owners would not only have to shell out that sum for the land but likely millions more to buil...

The major U.S. stock indexes were mostly higher in early trading Friday following a solid jobs report, keeping the market on track for a weekly gain after two weeks of losses.

President Donald Trump said Thursday the U.S. could soon impose tariffs on more than $500 billion in Chinese imports, about the amount of total goods the U.S. imported from China last year.

Flickr There’s no shortage of ways to spend money at the Disney parks. The parks carry everything from iconic food offerings to alcoholic drinks to classic souvenirs like character tees, keychains, pens, and, of course...

Jeff Bezos is going old school. The Amazon CEO will have the e-commerce giant publish a print toy catalog this fall -- which will be mailed to millions of Amazon customers and be available at its Whole Foods chain. The d...

After more than 100 years of making beauty products in the U.S., Avon is selling its last domestic factory to a French cosmetics manufacturer.

A bitcoin exchange hires the New York Stock Exchange's top technology executive--the latest sign that cryptocurrency trading platforms are seeking to move beyond their rebellious roots and look more like traditional fina...

Mazda recalls nearly 270,000 vehicles because of potentially deadly Takata airbags

How can a foreign investor start-up a new business in the U.S. to get a work permit and capitalize on his foreign connections? This article uses the example of a wine bar start-up to immigrate to the U.S. and then to exp...

Readers weigh in on inequality in financial services, opine on falling bank reputations, chime in on the evolving role of the chief risk officer and more.

Women are making a breakthrough in fintech -- at least when it comes to financial public relations. Bevel PR, launched last year by Jessica Schaefer, a communications alum from Steve Cohen's hedge fund Point72 Asset Mana...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced Texas will be getting nearly $5 billion to help build critical flood mitigation projects in the state, which is still recovering from …

Rhode Island has recruited 24 companies in the past two years to either come to the state or expand the presence the company already has in the state. Gov. Gina Raimondo is calling it a modern industrial revolution.

The latest episode of the Forbes Asia Biz Briefing comes from HSBC's chief ASEAN economist, Joseph Incalcaterra. He tells us what's caught his eye this week, and what he'll be watching for next week.