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A judge on Friday said Credit Suisse must pay a unit of Highland Capital Management $287.5 million over a soured real-estate loan, a win for James Dondero's hedge-fund firm in its multipronged fight against the Swiss ban...

By Mari Saito SAN FRANCISCO

After two days of discussions between finance ministers and central bankers from the world's 20 largest economies, the Group of 20 nations agreed to refrain from devaluing their currencies to increase international marke...

Britain's biggest business lobby has urged the competition watchdog to abandon the plan for price caps

The head off the International Monetary Fund called for the world's largest economies to urgently move ahead with economic overhauls as the global growth outlook sours and market turmoil rocks emerging markets.

The world's largest economies, including China, will renew their commitment to avoid depreciating their currencies to gain a competitive trading advantage.

The Middle Kingdom beckons

Priceline goes shopping

The stock global markets were punished again last week as most traders and investors couldn't wait for the long weekend. Several analysts last week proclaimed that we are now in a bear market. One of the new bear market ...

Silver, however, declined owing to lack demand from industrial users

Diary of a private investor: 'Black Monday' may have made his stomach churn but James Bartholomew still thinks the bull market will resume

Ignore the mayhem, several trusted measures of stock market valuation are telling long-term investors to buy

U.S. employment growth slowed in August but the jobless rate fell to the lowest level since 2008, a mixed labor-market reading less than two weeks before a crucial Federal Reserve meeting.

Proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services is recommending Bank of America Corp. shareholders vote against a board proposal that would let Chief Executive Brian Moynihan keep the title of chairman.

The sharp fall in gas prices that began last summer has altered American life in ways spurring families to spend more at restaurants and clock more miles in bigger vehicles, while bruising regions and sectors that rode t...