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Five banks failed late Friday, bringing the 2009 tally to 120.

AIG reported its second profitable quarter in a row early Friday, as stabilization in its insurance businesses and the credit and mortgage markets helped boost results.

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JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and other bank behemoths have bulked up over the past year. But they're not the only ones getting bigger these days.

Perfectionism can sabotage sales. By concentrating on every little detail, the big picture becomes fuzzy and opportunities to make more sales slip away. The solution? Realize when you've done enough, ...

From free dry cleaning to a no-cost vacation, these 5 businesses have come up with creative ways to help out unemployed residents in their communities.

Small business owners are still whittling away at their payroll, but the deluge of pink slips on Main Street is slowing down.

Inventory losses are on the rise, thanks mostly to cashiers giving themselves and friends five-finger discounts. Employees stole an estimated $15 billion from retailers last year, according to University of ...

When hunting for cash, desperate small business owners may find themselves sucked into buying books and software packages promising "Billions in Free Grants!" from Web sites with names like NeverPayItBack.com, ...

When CIT Group filed for bankruptcy Sunday, it wasn't much of a surprise. The once-dominant small business lender has been largely sidelined for more than a year.

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The widening probe of insider trading on Wall Street is expected to examine transactions at Steven A. Cohen's SAC, one of America's largest and most successful hedge funds.

A $2.5 billion IPO by aluminum firm Rusal will be one of the year's hottest deals. But some banks are cool toward working with its founder, Oleg Deripaska.

The Treasury blocked Fannie Mae's proposed sale of $3 billion in housing tax credits to Goldman Sachs and Berkshire Hathaway.

Freddie Mac posted a loss of $6.3 billion and said it expected to ask for more handouts from the Treasury.

Buffett's MidAmerican Energy is building windmills and investing in high-tech batteries in one of the biggest pushes by a regulated utility in alternative energy.

As expected, the Treasury Department blocked the sale of Fannie Mae's unused tax credits to Goldman Sachs late Friday, arguing that the government would lose more money on taxes than ...

EBay has formally settled the litigation around its sale of Skype, settling a dispute with the online calling service's founders.

The trustee liquidating Bernard L. Madoff's investment firm has dropped a $279 million claim against the New York financier J. Ezra Merkin's hedge funds, which invested one-fourth of their money ...

Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, no longer has to look very far for parental advice. His father is joining the bank's securities business.

The Deal Professor examines the buyout of Landry's Restaurant, a leveraged deal that was terminated in the financial crisis and resurrected from the dead this week.

Tour a Start-up's Office: The Gawker edition. Gawker Media, the parent company behind blogs like Valleywag and io9, has been experiencing a growth spurt of 40 percent year-over-year. Now Silicon ...

According to the Telegraph, researchers have designed the world's smallest motor, allowing a robot submarine the width of two human hairs to potentially enter a stroke victim's bloodstream and travel ...

Yanks win, but few spoils for Bronx businesses. Congratulations to the New York Yankees, for winning (yet another) World Series championship. But while the team celebrates, owners of the struggling ...

It sounds like a well-intentioned bill. The U.S. House of Representatives has a piece of legislation making its way through (it passed the Financial Services Committee this week) that would ...