For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.
Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.
For more than two decades, Barry Diller has been among the most respected - and feared - figures in the entertainment industry.
Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans.
Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter.
For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.
Even technology companies get good news sometimes.
At the end of 2000, most investors were optimistic that a return to quick gains could not be far off.
Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.
Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.
Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.
I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel.
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
Some big banks remain wary of venture capital.
Of all the big Internet companies, Yahoo is the most highly valued on a price-earnings and price-sales basis.
Before Jason Bourne, before Jack Ryan, there was Bond, James Bond, the original two-dimensional, world-saving secret agent.
Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.'
The credit quality of junk bonds varies widely.
The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.
The world is filled with great sporting events.
An attack on the scale of Sept. 11 would rock the markets and the economy.
HealthWell is just one of several foundations that assist patients in making their insurance co-payments for expensive drugs.
If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.
When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power.
Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.
In market valuation, Yahoo is worth about as much Walt Disney and the News Corporation combined.
