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Sweet Briar College in Virginia, a 114-year-year old private, women's liberal arts school that was slated to close at the end of the summer, has received a reprieve and will remain open for another year with new leadersh...

U.S. stocks are near record highs. Just how bad would your losses be if the market drops?

US treasury official Robert Stacks reveals deep frustration with Britain's negotiating tactics Britain has been attacked by a senior US official for undermining progress on a global clampdown on tax avoidance by multinat...

What exactly does it mean for a big Wall Street bank to plead guilty to a serious crime? Right now, practically nothing. But it will if California's Santa Cruz County has any say. First, some background. Five giant banks...

The Government is looking to offload a stake in the Green Investment Bank three years after its launch, Sky News learns.

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If reasonable limits aren't established now -- and codified either formally or as an expected standard practice -- abuses of the system are bound to happen. And bad stuff invariable follows, for both parties.

The weekly Baker Hughes oil rig count was released Friday, and for the 28th straight week, the number of active rigs in the US dropped. But those 28 weeks of declines were not equally dismal. From December through early ...

Dwayne Johnson's new HBO series "Ballers" begins Sunday night. Johnson plays a former pro football player who becomes a financial advisor for current athletes. This sparks us to ask once again, how on earth does he main...

China's economic slowdown isn't just bad for China. It's bad for everyone who trades with China. GDP growth has slowed from 10.4% annually in 2011 to 7.4% last year. According to the World Bank, this number should contin...

So, what kinds of management tools do these owners use to successfully run their businesses? Here are 3 that have proven invaluable.

Arianna Huffington has yet to turn a profit at her Huffington Post, which is being sold along with its parent company, AOL, to Verizon, but now she has a new...

ROME (AP) -- Italian prosecutors are seeking to indict 297 people and the Bank of China in connection with a massive money-laundering investigation reported by The Associated Press earlier this month. The suspects, mostl...

Antony Jenkins, the boss of British bank Barclays, emailed the entire company on Friday and told them they can all have one extra day of holiday a year.  Sources close to Barclays told Business Insider that Jenkins emai...

Computers are making high-quality financial advice available for a fraction of what it used to cost.          

China's ruling Communist Party has made it clear that it has a mortal enemy: social unrest. Separately, it has also made it clear that the Chinese people should be heavily invested in the stock market. And so, dutifully,...

If you are a bank, why lend money and put it at risk when you can simply gouge your customers for profit? Banks have been hurt by a raft of...

Turn off the phone, unplug the tablet and enjoy the summer. That's what an increasing number of executives are not doing. Indeed, in the midst of a technological revolution, many...

NEW YORK (AP) -- After getting the cold shoulder, U.S. health insurer Anthem Inc. said it's raising its offer to buy smaller rival Cigna Corp. for $54 billion, including debt. Indianapolis-based Anthem said Saturday it's...

Last year, before HBO's True Detective premiered I wrote a piece about the way the series could change the way you’ll watch television. And it turns out that it did that and more. Not only because of its sheer excellen...

From the moment Jeff Costellia first joined a big firm after graduating from law school, he had one destination in mind: the corner office.It wasn't just the palatial space, the private conference table, the windows and ...