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The mortgage bill is coming due for Standard & Poor's. The ratings agency, which allegedly fattened its bottom line during the housing boom by inflating the creditworthiness of residential mortgage...

Earnings for the world's largest technology services company, IBM, slumped in the fourth quarter as it moved away from its hardware business.

(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc has launched a service allowing customers to pick up tax refunds in cash at stores across the United States.

eBay just released its Q4 earnings and announced it plans to cut 2,400 jobs to simplify its organizational structure. That's about 7% of its total workforce across eBay and PayPal. The cut wasn't unexpected. It comes fo...

Police in New York say James Rhein, 48, rented a bulldozer to raze his home.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock has increased 10% ever since the company unveiled the new variants of the iPhone in September last year. And if Morgan Stanley is to be believed, the stock may have further upside left, due...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam is America's richest politician.

President Barack Obama's feisty ad libs steal the show during his State of the Union address and suggest he has no plans to be cowed by the new Republican majority.

The boss of Italian oil group Eni, speaking in Davos, warns oil could shoot back to $200 a barrel if the Opec cartel fails to cut supplies.

Opinion:A Bloomberg story about layoffs rising at tech companies has been making the rounds. It seems so counter-intuitive: How can job cuts be soaring when tech is booming? Everyone seems surprised, but they shouldn’t...

Press Release:Behavioral Recognition Systems, Inc. (BRS Labs), creator of AISight®, the artificial intelligence-based analytics solution that teaches itself to recognize and alert on unexpected patterns within massive v...

The blogosphere is changing fashion as we know it. Particularly when they command big audiences, bloggers play an important role for companies who want to connect with their customers. While online journalists have long ...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) --Shares of Laredo Petroleum are higher in morning trading, up 7.44% to $9.68 today with oil prices gaining Wednesday, as traders took positions ahead of U.S. inventory data and the European Central...

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND -- The head of one of the U.S.' largest banks Wednesday said that public anger at financial institutions has been "understandable" and he acknowledged that Americans remain concerned about whether publ...

Everyone wants to achieve success, but what does that mean? The truth is, everyone has a different definition of success, and in order to achieve, you first need to understand exactly what success means for you.

More than three in five said the US economy is improving while 40% saw global output as deteriorating, says a Bloomberg poll

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As we begin 2015, the accounting profession industry is changing rapidly. One of the leading authorities in the accounting industry, Joseph Tarasco, president of Accountants Advisory Group, shares his predictions and ide...

Rolling coverage of the first day of the World Economic Forum, including appearances by former US vice-president Al Gore, Italian PM Matteo Renzi and Chinese premier Li Keqiang. Watch live on the WEF website here Al Gore...

By Julie Murphy

President Barack Obama declares an end to the U.S. economic crisis as he makes the case to Americans, and a skeptical Congress, that now is time to shift focus to lagging progress among the middle class.