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Prommis Solutions, a firm hired to process foreclosures, filed for bankruptcy, blaming slowed business once regulators began investigating the "robosigning" scandal.

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Stocks sold off on Tuesday, after leaders in Cyprus rejected a tax on bank deposits as part of a bailout plan. Heading into the last hour of trading, the Dow was down nearly one third of a percent, the S&P was down .6% a...

Adobe Systems (ADBE) announced a a 65 percent drop in quarterly profit due to higher expenses. Net income fell to $65.1 million, or 13 cents per share from $185.2 million, or 37 cents per share in the same period last ye...

GW Pharmaceuticals, the biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercialising novel therapeutics from its proprietary cannabinoid product platform, announced today that it has filed a registrat...

Why is attention fixed on a dot-sized European country? Because what starts in Cyprus, a tiny isle of 1.1 million people, could soon spread to London or New York or Hong Kong, making misery for many millions more.

While the banking sector in Cyprus churns, the island's ailing real-estate industry is casting a hopeful eye to a large gas discovery recently off the country's southern coast.

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Craig Berkman, 71, a former Oregon gubernatorial candidate who now lives in Florida, and his lawyer, with operating an investment scam peddling pre-IPO shares in Faceb...

Plenty of investors have lamented the stock performance of social media companies like Facebook after their public debuts, but at least those investors got the stock they paid for.

WASHINGTON—Mary Jo White won approval from a U.S. Senate panel on her nomination to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission, putting her on track to be confirmed by the full Senate as early as this week.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has requested too much data that it doesn't have the ability to analyze, making it impossible for staff to find the giant J.P. Morgan trade dubbed the "London Whale," a GOP commis...

Craig Berkman, who once served as Oregon's state Republican chairman, was arrested for allegedly selling millions of dollars in pre-IPO shares of Facebook that he didn't actually own.

Stocks reversed morning gains as investors paid closer attention to the latest flare-up in Europe's debt crisis.

The European banks that own Visa Europe may soon decide to sell the credit-card organization to U.S.-based Visa Inc. and set up a rival system in Europe, people familiar with the matter said.

Cyprus's government is scrambling to garner support for a controversial draft bill that will tax deposits as part of an international €10 billion bailout plan but could raise less revenue than originally targeted.

The world's largest banks are making progress to meet stricter capital rules aimed at ensuring they can ride out a financial crisis, the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision said.

In trading on Tuesday, general contractors & builders shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 1.6%. Leading the group were shares of Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV), up about 5.5% and shares of KB Home (KBH) up ...

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UBS said it would become the latest bank to leave the panel that sets the benchmark Euribor rate, just three months after the Swiss lender agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle accusations it had tried to manipulate inter...

Workers and employers in the U.S. are bracing for a retirement crisis, even as the stock market sits near highs and the economy shows signs of improvement.

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