Sotheby’s, the auction house under pressure from activist investors to boost profit, doubled the amount it can borrow to make art loans in a bid to win clients and top consignments.
Couples’ ignorance about their incomes seems to be growing, from 27 percent in 2013 to 43 percent this year, and there could be a lot of reasons why.
The second-largest provider of U.S. mortgages through brokers is bringing back a debt type that that’s almost disappeared since the financial crisis: Interest-only loans.
Amazon is coming under pressure to remove Confederate flags and themed products from its online store after Wal-Mart, EBay and Sears said they’d stop selling the merchandise.
One grew up in Brooklyn public housing and shared a bedroom with his grandmother. The other was born half a world away, the son of an engineer in a comfortable Melbourne household.
Days of frantic buying or selling have been absent from the U.S. stock market this year.
For-profit colleges lost their bid to block an Education Department rule denying funds to schools that saddle students with excess debt.
Moody’s Investors Service said that it may lower ratings on about $34 billion of securities backed by U.S. government-insured student loans.
Investors risk falling into liquidity traps as they seek to boost yields, according to Pimco.
Bernard Madoff’s victims shouldn’t expect to recover all $17 billion they lost now that the U.S...