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A former hedge fund executive says his ex-boss gave him the green light to break the law by gathering secrets about the technology industry.
Adam Smith […]

It was one more blow for Bank of America: the Federal Reserve didn’t allow nation’s largest bank to increase its dividends.
The decision by the Fed […]

Italian officials said Sunday they would do whatever it takes to free the crew of an Italian tugboat apparently seized by Libyan officials at Tripoli’s […]

Bahrain’s opposition asked for U.N. and American intervention in the government crackdown on the Shiite protests trying to loosen the monarchy’s grip, in a brief […]

IBM Corp. has agreed to pay $10 million to settle allegations that it bribed South Korean and Chinese government officials for more than a decade […]

Supporters of a no-fly zone over Libya called for a Security Council vote Thursday on a U.N. resolution aimed at preventing Moammar Gadhafi’s planes from […]

Global demand for U.S. stocks, bonds and other financial assets fell in January from a month earlier on declines in purchases of U.S. Treasury securities, […]

Japan’s central bank is injecting a record 15 trillion yen ($183.8 billion) into money markets, while the Tokyo stock market nosedived Monday on the first […]

Portugal’s announcement of additional budget-cutting measures failed to ease investor concerns on whether the country will be able to avoid following Greece and Ireland […]

JPMorgan Chase executives raised concerns about the credit risk at Tribune Co. one day after it helped finance a leveraged buyout of the media company, […]