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General Motors Co. hired Jenner & Block LLP Chairman Anton Valukas, who served as a U.S. Justice Department-appointed examiner of the downfall of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., to help lead an internal probe of an ignition- switch failure tied to at least 13 deaths.

The activist lawyer wants the digital currency bitcoin accepted as campaign contributions.

The maker of the Play:1 speaker and other home audio devices said Monday that it decided to make the information public to give some context around the size of its business and its growth.

A Delaware judge said Royal Bank of Canada should be held liable to former shareholders of Rural/Metro Corp because it failed to disclose conflicts of interest that tainted the $438 million buyout of the ambulance operator.

Clinical Network Services an integrated product development company based in Australia and New Zealand providing broad services in the planning, implementation and delivery of preclinical, Phase 1 and 2 trials, today announced that it has launched a new office near London headed by Paul Cronin who joins as UK Director and Director, Business ... (more)

You sink in debt, the holiday bills are now overdue and there seems no way to resurface financially.

Private equity giant, TPG, the owners of the Ingham Enterprises, the country's largest integrated poultry company, is looking to raise more than $650 million through the 'once in a generation' sale and lease back of two significant property portfolios.

Hedge fund manager William Ackman, who is betting $1.16 billion that Herbalife is a fraud, spent $264,000 last year on lobbyists to press his case against the company, according to government documents filed in recent weeks.

William Clay Ford Sr., director emeritus of Ford Motor Company and the owner of the Detroit Lions, died of pneumonia Sunday morning, according to a statement released by the car company.

Professor of Economics at UCD Morgan Kelly has warned that the European Central Bank is planning a "clean-up" of Irish banks which will see large numbers of small and medium-sized businesses go under.

The email from the bank was unexpected. Laura Benson got an increase in her small-business credit line.

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's stock had its "hold" rating restated by research analysts at Morningstar in a report released on Monday, AnalystRatingsNetwork.com reports.

Todd Hunt tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal that turnout equaled 10 percent of last year's total attendance at BancorpSouth Arena.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley said Friday the U.S. dollar faces little threat from the upstart private currency called Bitcoin.

The Little Rock Police Department says Michael McCormack, 31, of Little Rock is the primary suspect in the Feb. 24 robbery of the Bank of the Ozarks branch on N. Rodney Parham Rd. and the holdup three days later at the Tom and Jean's grocery store on Sardis Road.

A federal jury found former Jefferies Group Inc trader Jesse Litvak guilty of defrauding clients on mortgage bond trades, a victory for the government as it probes whether banks cheated their customers in the years after the financial crisis.

Deutsche Bank denied a German newspaper report on Friday that claimed a senior bank official knew of alleged currency market manipulation efforts as far back as 2006.

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan saw his compensation jump 77 percent last year as the company's fortunes improved.

A New Mexico judge has issued a $3.2 million judgment against Wells Fargo & Co. for foreclosing on a man's home after his death, even though he had a purchased an insurance policy through the bank that would have paid the remaining balance on his mortgage.