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The American International Group -- an insurance agency better known as AIG -- posted a set of disappointing fourth quarter earnings results Thursday afternoon, revealing that its profit fell 67% and failed to meet Wall ...

Women, apparently, don't want chocolates or flowers for Valentine's Day. According to Birkbeck University and Harley Street clinics in London, it's a romantic meal for two and sex toys. After hooking up 20 volunteer coup...

Our friend @GSElevator spotted an old job listing on LinkedIn for an "Executive Protection Specialist" at JPMorgan Chase (a.k.a. a bodyguard for CEO Jamie Dimon).  Defensive skills and at least 10 years of law enforceme...

Tax evasion claims have added to catalogue of failings by bank that include money-laundering, sanctions-busting, mistaken acquisitions and mis-selling "Our executive directors have a combined 178 years of service - a tra...

On Thursday, Yahoo fired somewhere between 100 to 200 of its employees. The company is calling the cuts a "restructuring" and not a layoff. To many Yahoo employees, it felt like a classic layoff -- the kind the company h...

US-owned firm hopes to break BT's broadband dominance with Project Lightning, which aims to extend reach to 17m UK homes Virgin Media is to extend its cable network to an extra 4m homes and businesses in a major challeng...

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Businesses are growing increasingly frustrated by obstacles to Internet access, according to a survey by the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Freescale Semiconductor are up 8.07% to $37.50 in pre-market trade after it was reported that the company that provides microcontrollers and digital networking processors, is up for sal...

The Democratic think tank Third Way has long defended centrist, pro-business policies against their detractors -- including the North American Free Trade Agreement, which allowed many U.S. companies to ship jobs to Mexic...

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Kraft Foods shares are down 3.13% to $64.10 in trading on Friday following the release of the food processor's fourth quarter earnings results as the company reported a net loss while also announc...

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Soaring UK house prices are not an omen that Britain is in a housing bubble. Some people think the 56% surge in property prices over the last decade is an indicator that these massive highs will be followed by a massive ...

'We should be paid a lot better,' say workers contracted by Aviation Safeguards to British Airways and United

American Express shares plunged after the company said its co-brand and merchant agreements with Costco in US stores will end next year. The stock dropped 6.4 percent to $80.48 at...

Harvey Goldschmid, a former SEC official and securities-law expert who helped guide the response to the accounting scandals of the early 2000s, died. He was 74.

Fiscal second-quarter sales rose 7% to $11.9 billion, and profit excluding some items was 53 cents a share

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- On CNBC's "Cramer's Stop Trading" segment, TheStreet's Jim Cramer looked at shale oil producer Apache , calling it a very inexpensive stock because they have great production and growth, and they...