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For those with major assets, an extra insurance policy can take care of one’s liability for the nightmarishly unexpected.
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How can we position ourselves to survive — and prosper from — the recent upheavals in the market? The answer: Stay the course.
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Both the editor and the publisher who ran Interview magazine for almost two decades will join Condé Nast to help guide one of its fastest-growing businesses, the European editions of Vanity Fair.
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It’s not surprising that Bear Stearns’s stock plummeted after JPMorgan Chase agreed to buy it for just $2 per share. The surprising part is that it didn’t plummet more.
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The Supreme Court handed Microsoft a defeat on Monday by refusing to rule on the software giant’s request to halt an antitrust suit against it.
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A day that loomed darkly on Wall Street ended with only a modest decline in the overall market and the Dow up 21 points, but shares of financial firms plummeted.
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Critics accused the administration of bailing out a prestigious bank while ignoring the hardships of Americans facing foreclosures on their homes.
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The paper and wood products company will acquire Weyerhaeuser’s containerboard packaging and recycling unit for $6 billion in cash.
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The German engineering giant gave investors a rude shock Monday, disclosing that delays and canceled orders would cut its quarterly earnings by 900 million euros, or $1.4 billion.
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The New York Times Company has struck a deal with a pair of hedge funds that want to shake up the company, giving the funds two seats on the board in order to avoid a proxy fight.
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A federal appeals court threw out all guilty verdicts against Joseph Nacchio, ordering a new trial in an insider trading case seen as a test of government attempts to squash corporate fraud.
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By entering the online-game sector, media companies can attract advertising, including from food companies that have agreed to limit the nature and volume of television ads aimed at children.
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CME, which runs the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade, will acquire the parent of the New York Mercantile Exchange in a cash and stock deal.
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A New York manufacturing gauge fell to a new low in March after national industrial output slumped in February.
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The billionaire investor Wilbur Ross will pay $1.1 billion for H&R Block’s troubled mortgage servicing business, which has been rocked by the nationwide mortgage crisis.
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After suffering its longest drought without a new hit series, HBO is moving the president of HBO Entertainment, Carolyn Strauss, to a new position.
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Shaking up its leadership for the third time in six months, Citigroup has named John Havens as the new head of its investment banking and alternative investments group.
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For magazines and newspapers with long histories, old material can be reborn on the Web as an inexpensive way to attract readers, advertisers and money.
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State officials are being forced to make difficult financial decisions, with few programs being spared from cuts.
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A shoestring operation stunned by its own success faces growing pains.
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer seemed to don the uniform for the modern public apology when announcing his resignation following allegations that he patronized a prostitute.
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One month after the conservative radio talk show host publicly appealed for computer help to Steven P. Jobs, his e-mails are now saving properly.
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An ad campaign for a radio station that broadcasts from Jerusalem and Ramallah suggests a new way to address the divide: speak, or even sing, to both sides at once.
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A Barack Obama supporter quizzed on the street has drawn a million views on YouTube.
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Hospitals have begun installing Internet systems with dedicated shopping channels, to help patients pick up goods they will need for their recuperation.
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A Web site that started out as an Internet lark is now attracting advertisers.
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When it comes to products helping to promote the coming film based on the popular TV series “Sex and the City,” it seems the sky is the limit.
