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Three more tax-free bonds to choose from. Do keep in mind liquidity and the tenor before you invest

Ann Cairns of MasterCard talks about business opportunities and challenges in India

Wealthy Chinese consumers are switching to olive oil for cooking, spurring companies to snap up Australian olive groves to secure supplies.

Centrica weighs on bluechips while Bwin shares rise on activist investor     

The approach of yet more frigid weather sent natural-gas prices spiking to a five-year high Wednesday, as concerns escalated that a brutal winter has begun to stretch supplies of the heating fuel.

Coffee prices hit 16-month highs on concerns that the unusually dry weather in Brazil would crimp global supplies this year.

Companies are racing to list their shares in a newly buoyant European market for initial public offerings. But this crop of stock-exchange debutantes isn't taking in very much money.

The $3.3 billion in private equity funding raised last year for African ventures is the highest annual amount since 2007 and represents a 136 percent increase since 2012, according to a recent report from Ernst & Young. ...

The Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) and the deputy U.S. attorney general have given the nation's banks a green light to accept clients working in the marijuana business. As long as ban...

Despite the large size of its business and uncertain global economic conditions, the leading Online Travel Agency grew robustly in the first nine months of the year to register top line growth of 29% year over year.

As vehicles and businesses adapt to these new standards, sales for emission control systems and its parts would increase. This presents a global growth opportunity for Corning's Environmental Technologies which primarily...

The pay-TV industry is witnessing a decline in subscribers, especially from cable operators. In a saturated market, loss of subscribers to one, may translate into gain for the other. It will be interesting to see if Dish...

Tesla has already started taking reservations for the vehicle and deliveries will begin in March. With expansion into new territories, Tesla hopes to sell Model S cars at an annualized pace of 40,000 units a year by the ...

2013 marked the worst year for gold since 1981. It was the first negative year in 12 years, down -27%. This was mainly attributed to a lack of inflationary pressures and a booming developed equity market. Huge outflows w...

Rise in wages and a fall in unemployment a boost for the Bank of England     

A first look at a selection of jewelry from the Las Vegas jewelry trade shows. It's the third largest gathering of jewelry and watch industry professionals in the world and it is where jewelry retailers in the U.S. selec...

Asset monetization holds key to a lighter balance sheet that will help save interest costs for the companies

As investors flee stocks for bonds it might be time to do the opposite     

The steep fall in the prices of ammonia, potash and rock phosphate has made domestic manufacturing less lucrative

After a mixed day on the bourses Tuesday, markets look set for a weak start and investors are expected to watch quarterly earnings and economic data on housing and inflation for direction. On Tuesday, futures on the Dow ...

A survey of fund managers by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, released on Wednesday, said that investors are more confident about developed economies than emerging markets, and fear that China's economy is in for a signifi...

Centrica weighs on bluechips while Bwin shares rise on activist investor