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Some corporate spinoffs unlock value, but others sharply underperform. How to spot winners and sinners. Also, trouble at Chemours.

By Menelaos Hadjicostis and Nicholas PaphitisATHENS, Greece -- Greece invited the International Monetary Fund on Friday to participate in its negotiations with European creditors over a vital third bailout -- talks that ...

Warren Buffett has positioned Berkshire Hathaway to prosper long after he steps down as CEO.

The slip-up was caused by 'procedural errors at a staff level' the Fed says, in the latest blow to its ability to maintain secrecy over its policy deliberations Staff economists at the Federal Reserve expect a quarter-po...

Twenty-two heavyweight Wall Street firms took part in a "massive conspiracy" to rig the $12.5 trillion Treasury market auctions for six years, a lawsuit filed this week alleges. The suit,...

Nike used to eat companies like Under Armour for lunch. Over the years, Converse, Reebok, Adidas and a host of lightweight wannabes each tried to knock Phil Knight's Swoosh off...

GUEST: When oil is cheap, operators have to figure out how to produce it more efficiently. Silicon Valley brains are helping them do just that.

When deciding whether to enforce a non-compete agreement, courts will carefully consider the facts, including the nature of your business.

Here are some legitimate ways to snag a seat in first class that don't take advantage of cancellation policies.

Zegona could confirm a deal to buy Telecable to the London Stock Exchange as soon as Monday, Sky News understands.

Staring at screens right before sleep turns out to be a lot worse than previously thought. Dr. Dan Siegel, clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, lays out all of the negative effects bedtime scr...

Stocks have been on an absolute tear since they bottomed out in 2009: But since the market peaked in early 2000, U.S. stocks haven’t really done much for investors as we’ve gone through a series of booms and busts: O...

Google proclaims itself the protector of startups against patent trolls. Here is what the Internet search firm plans to do.

There is a new world order coming to Wall Street.  Startups are taking on the financial sector. Some of the companies look to usurp traditional players, and others step into the gaps they've left behind.  Business I...

Bloomberg reports Jack Dorsey's Square has confidentially filed for IPO, but could the Twitter interim CEO juggle heading both companies at once?

The aircraft-leasing company suffers from worries about slowing economic growth, but has sustainable tail winds.

Lollapalooza will fill Grant Park with hundreds of thousands of people next weekend, the latest event that - like the Pitchfork Musical Festival and the Grateful Dead's farewell concerts at Soldier Field before it - puts...

The CEO is reducing the aluminum maker's sensitivity to commodity prices by focusing on more-profitable specialty products; 17,000 ways to improve.

Mangrove Founder Nathaniel August has posted top returns by searching everywhere for deals. Now he thinks Puerto Rican debt might provide some.

Is 20% really standard when on holiday in the US? What should you give a taxi driver in Spain? Can you just round up a bill in France? Guardian correspondents around the world provide the inside track on what you do, and...

Bad news from IBM, Apple, Caterpillar, 3M, and others cratered stock indexes last week. United Technologies is down, but not out.

The US national archives just released more than 300 never-bef0re-seen photos of the Bush administration, taken just after the September 11, 2001 attacks.  The photos — taken by the Vice Presidential photographer and...