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He was given last rites by a priest after suffering life-threatening injuries in a race accident, but returned to the track just 42 days later and went on to win two more world titles. Niki Lauda reveals how he defied hi...

Twitter's planned IPO has set off a horse race for the high-profile deal

Be watchful and wary, but stay fully invested.

Evaluating stocks to buy and sell can be a tricky business, even with all of the data available at your fingertips. Out of the dozens of ratios and metrics that give clues to the financial health of a company, a few of t...

(Kitco News) -The strong physical demand for gold that started in April, after the worst price drop in 30 years, is just the start of a new trend that could last for decades said Randall Oliphant the new chairman of the...

J.P. Morgan Chase is in discussions to settle probes related to mortgage-backed securities for $11 billion. The amount being discussed would include $7 billion cash and $4 billion in relief to consumers.

Wal-Mart Stores weighed on the Dow industrials and buyers remained cautious after strong quarterly gains.

Minimum maturity requirement to avail swap facility for banks' foreign currency borrowings lowered to one year

(Kitco News) - Comex gold futures prices put on a late-morning surge and held those gains into the close Wednesday, to finish solidly higher in the day. The market saw more short-covering, bargain hunting and a technica...

Deloitte Haskins and Sells on Tuesday said FTIL's financial results for fiscal year 2012-13 should no longer be relied upon

Market regulator's investigation to see if FTIL misrepresented facts and figures to shareholders

U.S. and U.K. regulators leveled the fines against the London-based brokerage for the firm's role in the manipulation of benchmark interest rates. The U.S. also charged three former ICAP brokers with criminal fraud.

The Federal Housing Administration, which emerged as a major provider of residential mortgages throughout the housing downturn, is likely to require at least $1 billion from the Treasury Department at the end of the mont...

A conflict between bondholders, regulators and executives over saving U.K. lender Co-operative Bank shows it isn't easy to make investors shoulder the burden of saving banks.

Many people are already working at the type of companies Buffett is searching for. They have an intimate knowledge of the business, management, and the prospects for the company. Yet, it's funny because they are more lik...

U.S. commodity regulators have closed a high-profile investigation into alleged manipulation of the silver market without charging any firms or individuals, concluding there is no "viable basis" for a case.

Capital: Columnist David Wessel outlines the challenges the presumptive Fed nominee Janet Yellen would face in taking over the central bank, including managing the exit from years of easy money and a discordant message f...

Looking back to 54 days ago, Williams Partners L.P. (NYSE: WPZ) priced a 21,500,000 share secondary stock offering at $49.00 per share. Buyers in that offering made a considerable investment into the company, expecting t...

Investors eyeing a purchase of Shutterfly (NASD: SFLY) stock, but cautious about paying the going market price of $57.49/share, might benefit from considering selling puts among the alternative strategies at their dispos...

Investors considering a purchase of Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) stock, but cautious about paying the going market price of $14.12/share, might benefit from considering selling puts among the alternative strategies at their dis...

Investors considering a purchase of Southern Company (NYSE: SO) shares, but tentative about paying the going market price of $41.97/share, might benefit from considering selling puts among the alternative strategies at t...

The operating environment is expected to be better for the rest of the year, helped by a good monsoon and more buoyant outlook among farmers