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Seven years after launching and having never closed a deal, Dean Barr has shut down the firm.

Buyer beware: the turmoil in European bank debt is more about investors than the banks they invested in.

U.S. housing starts fell 3.8% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.099 million units in January, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.

The $100 bill is America's most popular currency denomination. It also could be the most endangered.

The too-big-too-fail debate has moved beyond a simple argument over whether banks should be broken up just because of their size.

Prosper Marketplace Inc. has started charging borrowers more for loans over its platform, a sign online lenders are preparing for a potential economic downturn.

As gold prices come off a stellar rally last week, Kitco's global trading director Peter Hug says he remains optimistic on the market.

Analysts should welcome Crédit Agricole's sale of its stake in regional lenders as a smart move, based on the sector's performance in France. .

They further agreed that the near-term outlook, if it were to change, would change for the worse. As for the medium-term outlook, the view around the table kept to the script economists hold dear – everything offsets t...

Stocks' relief rally points to a problem for the Federal Reserve.

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK), where a total of 20,962 contracts have traded so far, representing app...

Volatility on the Big Board just doubled, practically overnight. Waves of daily pessimism washed over bank stocks and Internet purveyors, with intraday moves exceeding 10% prevailing. I’ve learned not to blink at all t...

Here are five good stock bets right now--whether we have entered into a bear market or not.

T-Mobile's fourth-quarter results speak to the sustainability of its strategy.

As stressed assets swell, state-owned banks have to set aside more provisions

S&P continues to cut its bond ratings for Saudi Arabia.

A study of analyst recommendations at the major brokerages shows that Mednax, Inc. (NYSE: MD) is the #30 broker analyst pick among those stocks screened by The Online Investor for strong stock buyback activity. To make t...

Needless to say, what will turn the tables for stronger oil prices is an output cut at this point of time and not merely freezing production

For companies, borrowing rates would of course be higher and the gap with RoE wider

The stocks market's impressive gains Tuesday and 4-1 positive A/D ratios were consistent with the market's sold out status last week. The divergences in the NYSE High/Low analysis and the analysis of the S&P 500 stocks b...

The completion of the Panama Canal expansion in 2016 is expected to boost container traffic at East Coast ports at the expense of West Coast ports, benefiting rail companies operating in the Eastern U.S., such as Norfolk...

Gold prices ended the U.S. day session with slight gains Wednesday, as traders "bought the dip" in prices that occurred earlier this week.