Wealthy Russians are buying their way into the U.K. in record numbers as the economy at home sours and the ruble crumbles. Government data shows 162 Russians were granted U.K. investor visas in the first nine months of the year. That's already surpassed the total issued in 2013, and compares to 96

The 23-page market report warns of "financial ruin" for Medallion Financial Corp., a 70-year-old company that has long lent money to drivers and investors in New York, Chicago and Boston looking to buy expensive taxi medallions. The coveted assets give owners the right to operate taxicabs, and for

It was the spring of 1976. Investors were still licking their wounds from the severe bear market of 1973-74. Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, an investment bank, was hosting a conference that matched two investing legends onstage at the same time — Ben Graham and Charles Ellis. Ellis, moderating a

Something about the deal smelled fishy. China Marine Food Group Ltd., a Chinese company then on the New York Stock Exchange, spent $27 million in January 2010 to acquire a firm whose main asset was "algae-based drink know-how." The weird thing: Three months earlier, the beverage formula had been

Ebola made its official debut in the U.S. yesterday. Government officials announced that a man identified only as a "traveler" had been hospitalized in Dallas. This "Typhoid Larry" arrived in the U.S. from Liberia on September 20th. He reportedly started showing symptoms four or five days later and