Securities

A showcase for Richard Gere, writer-director Nicholas Jarecki's drama casts the actor as a tycoon anxious to sell off his holdings before his questionable business ethics are exposed. As the process takes unexpected and unwelcome turns, a police...

BP today announced that it has reached agreement with the United States government, subject to court approval, to resolve all federal criminal charges and all claims by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against the company stemming from the...

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa - Growers Edge has launched Grain TV as a result of listening to its user base requests for daily updates about the cash and futures markets. Each weekday morning, Grain TV shares in about four minutes the news that is driving...

Corporate-sponsored groups have launched a campaign of litigation in the lower federal courts challenging the legality of the second major piece of President Barack Obama's legislative program, one that received a lot of attention in last week's first...

It's an unseemly request by a movie, to ask us to root for the lying, scrambling but extremely well-coiffed hedge fund billionaire weasel played by Richard Gere in the new film "Arbitrage." But there it is. The movie does ask, and to varying degrees, we...

“Arbitrage” is not about Jack Abramoff, or Bernie Madoff or even Mitt Romney. But resemblances between any one of them and the film's protagonist, Robert Miller (Richard Gere), are hardly coincidental. Miller is a stand-in for a whole class of...

Since Baltimore City Hall contended in a federal lawsuit last year that a group of international banks conspired to keep a key interest rate benchmark low, more municipalities and private companies have started to investigate potential losses because of...

"Resident Evil: Retribution" is the fifth movie in a very successful franchise that began as a series of apocalyptic Japanese video games. The surreal sci-fi adventure blends "Aliens" and "The Matrix" with "Blade Runner" overtones. For good measure,...

I’m glad I have smart friends. The one I brought to this screening told me what “arbitrage” meant. It had something to do with buying and selling the same thing in the stock market. She was a little more detailed, but I’m lazy...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserveunleashed a series of aggressive actions Thursday intended to stimulate the still-weak economy by making it cheaper for consumers and businesses to borrow and spend. The Fed said it will spend $40 billion a...

BROOKINGS - The 2012 drought has been a game-changer in almost every aspect of farm and ranch management, including production, financial, and marketing, says Darrell Mark, Adjunct Professor of Economics at South Dakota State University, during his Aug. 6...

The extensive drought is pushing up corn and soybean prices to record levels, but area farmers will need to be able to produce a crop to take advantage of the windfall.  On Friday, the corn price hit the $8-a-bushel mark for the first time in history....