Contemporary art dominates the European art scene next week as international auction houses hold their benchmark sales in London. Bonhams kicks off on Monday, followed by Christie's (Feb. 14-15), Sotheby's (Feb. 15-16) and Phillips de Pury ...
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co. said Thursday that they have reserved for their respective $5.3 billion shares of the mortgage settlement, but Citigroup Inc. took a retroactive charge.
Top stories in today's VentureWire: TruTouch Technologies secured $3 million for its biometric system that can measure intoxication via a finger. The company's products use light to measure a subject's alcohol level without collecting bodily ...
The Federal Trade Commission intensified its crackdown on the booming debt-collection industry, announcing a $2.5 million settlement with a company for allegedly coercing borrowers into paying debts they no longer legally owed.
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The Heritage Foundation is out with another one of its misleading reports about how big government is eroding our freedoms.
Federal aviation regulators this week ordered airlines and business aircraft operators to accelerate fixes to collision-warning systems on roughly 9,000 planes, citing additional concerns that the devices could malfunction.
The foreclosure deal is the product of a year of tussles among banks, federal officials and attorneys general. The stop-and-start talks were marked by secret meetings, confrontations and brushes with failure. Over the past 12 months, two ...
The U.S. attorney who closed a nearly two-year investigation into the racing team of seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong rejected a recommendation from his assistants that he pursue criminal charges in the case.
A runway show on the margins of New York Fashion Week is a strange place to find a priest and an even stranger venue for clothes crafted in a church basement.
Sealed with a kiss is so passé. Now you can send letters with stamps bearing a picture of your face. The "My Stamp" scheme in Mumbai lets you have your photograph printed on five rupee (10 U.S. cent) stamps. The minimum order a customer can ...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — If you think the U.S. banks walked all over Washington and taxpayers in the bailouts, try the European shoe on for size.
ORLANDO, Fla. (MarketWatch) — The housing market will see a modest rebound in 2012, but given the depths to which the market fell in 2011 the recovery will not feel all that good to those in the real estate business, economists said ...
"Seasons greetings," says a holiday card that will no doubt bring its Brazilian recipients more relief than cheer. "As you've changed the direction of your life and managed to pay down old debts, we wish you a 2012 that is full of ...
The worldliest natural historian of the 18th century was, oddly enough, never much of a traveler. Carl Linnaeus's farthest expedition was from Sweden to Lapland, in 1732, when he was 25 years old. Despite his all-consuming curiosity about ...
INDIANAPOLIS—During an average week of practice and preparation, the New England Patriots' Julian Edelman bounces from meeting room to meeting room, collecting as much information about as many aspects of the team's game plan as possible. ...