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"Dumb and Dumber To," which reunited original stars Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels 20 years after the 1994 hit, made an estimated $38 million worldwide at this weekend's box office. Fans of the first film may have recognize...

In the history of every successful company, there are turning points -- moments when you have to make a choice that will change everything. Ron Shaich, the founder and CEO of restaurant chain Panera Bread Co., experience...

Consistently, one of the more popular stocks people enter into their stock options watchlist at Stock Options Channel is American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP). So this week we highlight one interesting put contract, and one i...

Herd behavior can make us do stupid things -- a phenomenon that's no stranger to Wall Street. Now, it turns out, we could be even more prone to blindly mimicking others when those others happen to look like us. Research...

How to harness the wisdom of the Japanese Konmari method of organizing to improve your company culture.

New York-based hedge fund Jana Partners LLC has acquired 842,268 shares of McDonald's Corporation (NYSE:MCD), with an additional call option for 200,000 shares, as per an SEC filing Friday. As per Friday's closing price,...

Billionaire Barry Diller and his wife Diane von Furstenberg to fund a $130 million park and performance space suspended above the water on Manhattan's west side.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Globalstar continue to slip, down 5.39% to $2.81 in midday trading Monday, following a loss of more than 16% in extended trading Friday after TheStreet's Jim Cramer said to stay away f...

An Arizona wedding planner last week refused to work with a same-sex couple once she realized that they were gay. Kenyata White found Susan Latimer's wedding planning business online and started working with Latimer to p...

Leaders at the summit of the G20 group of nations deliver "more and less" than was expected, according to BBC chief business correspondent, Linda Yueh.

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Anyone can get a degree in Taiwan. The island’s 146 universities graduate as many as 300,000 students per year,with spaces left. Taiwan is unwinding meanwhile from decades of poverty and risky business ventures, with e...

Since 1988, Wine Spectator's editors have been reviewing the best wines in the world. In 2014, they reviewed about 18,000 new wines and narrowed their list down to a manageable 100 they deemed the most "thought-provoking...

A new wearable device from Intel and Opening Ceremony will cost you $495. Back in September, Opening Ceremony and Intel took the wraps off MICA, their collaborative snakeskin-wrapped smart bracelet. But they left many de...

Quindell's share price has never recovered since the attack by the US short-seller

With White Knight Actavis standing in its corner, Allergan was able to outmaneuver Valeant Pharmaceuticals and Bill Ackman’s hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital, breaking a seven-month siege of the company. Earlier thi...

Homeowner Joana Johnson wants to remove legal protections from a 1953 modernist home, the Bill & Betsy Weber House, in the Country Club Hills neighborhood.

The West African country of Mauritania has the most severe concentration of modern-day slaves, according to the new Global Slavery Index. Approximately 4% of Mauritania's population, or 155,600 people, are enslaved. Mod...

With a little creativity, anything is possible — hedge fund investing for previously unqualified investors included. Sliced Investing, a startup that graduated from Y Combinator’s accelerator in August, helps investo...

Texas mineral-rights owners and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) have reached a consensus regarding the lawsuit filed earlier against the investment firm for entering underpriced drilling contracts with oil companies. The...

However big you’re hoping to make your marriage proposal in this age of viral one-upmanship, you’re going to have a tough time topping Japan’s artist known as “Yassan.” In 2010, Yassan (real name: Yasushi Takah...

PM says red warning lights are flashing against a backdrop of instability and uncertainty, as G20 summit draws to a close David Cameron: red lights are flashing on the global economy