The founder of Los Angeles-based Muddy Waters, who has been vocal about accounting problems at U.S.-listed Chinese companies, is switching his focus elsewhere.
New technologies, dwindling resources and explosive population growth in the next 18 years will alter the global balance of power and trigger radical economic and political changes.
The success of American drillers in coaxing fossil fuels from shale rock has the potential to boost production so much that it may deny OPEC the power to set global oil and gasoline prices, an...
The image of a "fiscal cliff," coined by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, actually misstates the economic reality of a failed budget compromise, experts say.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will pay $1.5 million to settle U.S. regulatory claims the firm failed to supervise a commodities trader who concealed an $8.3 billion position.
Brokers who switch firms would be compelled to tell customers about any recruiting bonuses and other incentives received under rules proposed by industry regulators to protect clients from conflicts...
Senate Democratic leaders are signaling that they may be willing to trade an entitlement program overhaul to secure a deal to rein in the national debt.
