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Meet the 11 black billionaires on earth.

Gold isn't just for big investors as the BBC's Sharanjit Leyl finds out in Singapore.

New research found bourses make small tweaks to their prices, influencing trade in ways hard for even sophisticated investors to understand.

There's an old saying on Wall Street about insider buying: there are many possible reasons to sell a stock, but only one reason to buy. Back on December 23, Marriott International, Inc.'s Director, Susan C. Schwab, inves...

The model of day-to-day banking used by most UK consumers is a "con-trick" and unnecessarily expensive for many, experts say.

Zynga’s founder has stepped down from his role as chief executive officer for the second time, and this has Wall Street thrilled. The social-gaming publisher’s stock price is up around 8 percent in after-hours tradin...

A "critical mass" of oil-producing countries have agreed to freeze oil production, Russia's energy minister said Tuesday, as African, Latin American and Persian Gulf producers expressed optimism about joining the deal.

The Unites States Secretary of Defense today came out against the creation of a so-called backdoor to break the data encryption of the iPhone at the heart of the Apple-FBI court case. Speaking at the RSA Conference, Secr...

I decided to run a Google AdWords campaign to direct people to my book. It didn't go exactly how I'd hoped.

Tax treatment affects investors, retail business traders, proprietary traders and hedge funds. Here is valuable information about how the various instruments are treated come tax time.

Concerns about "too big to fail" are legitimate, but bank breakups aren't the solution, writes WSJ chief economics commentator Greg Ip. Instead, regulators should require big banks to issue more equity, which would disco...

SunEdison's mounting financial woes have jeopardized its purchase of rooftop-solar company Vivint Solar as banks have balked at providing loans they had committed to fund the takeover.

Capria Ventures, led by Dave Richards, has launched an accelerator to mentor fund managers in the developing world, allowing them to be more effective impact investors.

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Alphabet Inc (NASD: GOOG), where a total volume of 13,227 contracts has been traded thus far today, a ...

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Sorrento Therapeutics Inc (NASD: SRNE), where a total of 1,807 contracts have traded so far, representing appro...

This is the year for active trading. The opportunities have been and will continue to be exceptional.

While the AAII's sentiment survey is commonly used as a contrarian tool, investors shouldn't assume the market is in the clear based on the poll's findings alone.

Nintendo is known for making Mario games, designing cute pocket monsters, and having an effective legal team. The publisher announced today that it has successfully fought off an appeal from technology firm UltimatePoint...

VB EVENT: Jill Soley, VP of marketing at customer support software company Freshdesk, has joined us as one of our participants at the sixth annual VentureBeat Mobile Summit on April 4-5. The event focuses on strategies b...

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc (NYSE: CMG), where a total volume of 15,737 contracts has been traded thus far t...

The Pentagon said on Wednesday it would invite vetted outside hackers to test the cybersecurity of some public U.S. Defense Department websites as part of a pilot project next month, in the first-ever such program offere...

Ross Stores (ROST) recently approved an increase in the quarterly cash dividend to $.135 per share, up 15% on top of an 18% increase last year. This higher quarterly dividend will be payable on March 31, 2016 to stockhol...