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Meet Jack Ma, the charismatic leader of the Chinese e-commerce giant that looms over eBay and Amazon, who is sometimes described as Alibaba's spiritual leader.

The latest U.S. and EU sanctions against Russia may have American and European companies fearing for their business there, but Chinese firms see an opportunity. The Ukraine crisis seems to be pushing the Kremlin into clo...

Warren Buffett is widely celebrated for his plain-spoken, straight-shooting manner, but the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. showed on Saturday before thousands of shareholders that he sometimes values degrees of nuan...

Apple's shares have seen significant gains ahead of previous iPhone launches. Investors may still be able to jump on this product cycle.

With the AIG board mulling whether to join a shareholder lawsuit against the U.S. government, a look back at how we got here.

Earnings fall on tough P&C comps, but AIG's shares still trade at a hefty discount to book value.

Boom times may be returning to the Apple universe.

iPad-maker to shell out $2.65 per share to investors starting in fiscal Q4.

There are few economists who was more of an eminence gris than Gary Becker.

(Kitco News) - Close to 1,000 ounces of gold, worth about $1.3 million dollars, has been recovered from an 1857 shipwreck off the coast of South Carolina.

(Kitco News) - For the second week, large speculators pulled back slightly on their bullish platinum futures and options positions on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange in the latest weekly commitmen...

(Kitco News) - Gold prices ended the U.S. day session higher, scored a three-week high and pushed back above the key $1,300 level Monday. Safe-haven buying was featured, as Russia-Ukraine tensions heated up during the w...

The US markets are mixed this afternoon, with the Dow down 0.04%, the S&P up 0.01% and the Nasdaq up 0.04% so far today. Some of the most actively traded stocks include Pfizer (PFE) down 2.5%, Facebook (FB) up 1% and Ban...

The SPDR S&P International Dividend ETF (DWX) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Monday, with over 1.1 million shares traded versus three month average volume of about 146,000.  Shares of DWX were up a...

Apart from higher commodity prices, Anadarko would also benefit from better sales volume mix compared to last year. This is primarily because we expect the ongoing development of its liquids-rich U.S. onshore assets to d...

Why Mexico is particularly important to Dr. Pepper is because around 8% of the company's volumes come from the country. With CSDs facing a continual decline in demand in North America, beverage companies have looked to e...

Somebody call Chicken Little: the sky is falling at Tyson Foods.

The company reported a 36% year-on-year increase in pre-tax operating income for its financial services business for the fourth quarter of 2013. The financial services business consists of the company's continuing busine...

Bargain hunters are wise to pay careful attention to insider buying, because although there are many various reasons for an insider to sell a stock, presumably the only reason they would use their hard-earned dollars to ...

Toyota delivered the fewest number of vehicles since 2011, according to the industry figures. The slump is expected to deepen in May as the delivery of many orders made before April 1 was delayed due to poor weather cond...

The studio likely benefited from the continued success of Frozen, which is now the highest-grossing animation movie ever made. The movie cost a modest $150 million to produce and has grossed more than $1.17 billion at th...

International art auction house Sotheby's (NYSE: BID) said Monday it has agreed to add hedge fund activist investor Daniel S. Loeb and two of his colleagues as director nominees to its board, ending a months-long battle....