Grave business - my financial world

The outrage over big bonuses paid to Merrill Lynch employees is quickly becoming less a scandal for Bank of America and more of another […]

What happens if you use one of your bank’s foreclosed properties — particularly one in swanky Malibu beach — for your own parties? You […]

As government regulators switch from crisis-mode to rescue mode, many of the biggest and most successful bailout programs are well on their way to […]

U.S. health-care firm Johnson & Johnson is in talks to cut the price of a $1.5 billion deal with Irish drugmaker Elan Corp, a […]

French Labour Minister Xavier Darcos has called for a meeting with the head of France Telecom to discuss a wave of suicides at the […]

Stocks surged Thursday, with the major gauges ending at the highest point in nearly a year, having responded strongly to a debt auction and […]

Who said investing was hard?
If you look at how the financial markets have behaved over the past six months, it seems like there […]

When Kraft offered $16.7 billion for Cadbury over Labor Day weekend, the deal was immediately shunned by the British candy giant.
Still, it’s the […]

Five small regional banks were closed by regulators on Friday evening, pushing 2009’s tally so far to 89 institutions. Of the five failures, two […]

Diebold Inc. said Thursday it has sold its voting machine business to Election Systems & Software, Inc., in a deal that could result in […]