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Shanghai shares index drops 3.9%, denting hopes of Chinese stock markets stabilising following last week's devaluation of yuan Asian shares on Wednesday struggled at two-year lows after Chinese stocks extended their fall...

Investors sold shares in response to falling markets in Europe and Asia and waited for clues about interest rates from the Federal Reserve.

You don’t need to be the best in the world, just the best one there.

A strategist argues that the reasons have little to do with the vagaries of the economy.

NEW YORK (The Deal) -- Fresh off their apparent success in pressing Harrisburg, Pa.-based Metro Bancorp Inc. to be acquired by Pittsburgh, Pa.-based FNB Corp. for $474 million, the target's activist investors, PL Capi...

Cheating spouses beware: Hackers claim to have released data stolen last month during a breach at Ashley Madison, a dating site for people looking for affairs.A roughly 10-gigabyte file that purported to contain several ...

Investment in emerging markets hits record low while sluggish growth figures cause jitters Chinese stock markets fell sharply in their final hour of trading yesterday as investors were rattled by the withdrawal of govern...

SEATTLE (AP) -- A powerful explosion tore through a Washington motel, critically injuring a gas company worker and knocking back firefighters just minutes after the manager evacuated the building because she could smell ...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Yahoo! 2015 earnings estimates were lowered to $0.18 from $0.37 per share at Cantor Fitzgerald, with 2016 earnings estimates cut to $0.31 from $0.43 per share. The firm maintained its "buy" rating...

BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio (AP) -- A mother accused of killing her three sons was dominated and isolated by her husband, a man nearly twice her age who had been her own mother's live-in boyfriend before they married, authoritie...

Petteri Lahtela is the CEO and co-founder of OURA, a wearable device -- in the form of a waterproof ring -- that measures our well-being as we sleep. In answer to my questions, he shared his insights on the restorative p...

Changes since the financial crisis should have investors repricing risk for banks--and raising valuations.

As other major industries one by one fall victim to hackers, the U.S. electrical-power generation and distribution system seems remarkably insulated from cyber threats.  A March 24 story in USA Today reported that out o...

WASHINGTON

(Reuters) - Bond investing guru Bill Gross of Janus Capital Group Inc said in a tweet on Wednesday that the U.S. Federal Reserve will hike rates in September as financial market conditions take precedence over economic c...

BERLIN/ATHENS

Disk Drive makers with operations in Thailand will see an earnings boost if baht continues to slide.

The Fed hinted at its last meeting that its first rate hike in nearly a decade was nearing.          

After big up years in 2014 and 2013, stocks have stalled and are stuck in a trading range.          

Its stock price is up more than 1,500%

Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in July for the 31st consecutive month, and the overall economy grew for the 74th consecutive month, say the nation’s supply executives in the latest Manufacturing...

Elisa Stephens and her family built an $800 million fortune converting student loans into questionably valuable art degrees and pouring the profits into San Francisco real estate. Now, after two decades of blistering gro...