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Healthcare providers will increasingly start providing another service under Obamacare: Insurance.

The rumor a Best Buy deal was imminent turned out to be an announcement that any deal will have to wait until February.

In a visit to the Bank of England, Queen Elizabeth II politely but firmly questioned the precise reasons why the Bank never saw the crisis coming while other regulators did little to prevent it.

Foreign investment banks are finding it hard to generate enough revenues to cover the high costs of doing business in Japan.

In total, 11 percent of banks admitted they charge more than 36 percent annual interest on small consumer loans of less than $2,500.

Key players in the continuing Europe debt saga and financial crisis announced what amounted to Christmastime gifts to Greece and Britain.

S&P warns there is a one-in-three chance that it will strip the U.K. of its cherished AAA status within the next two years.

The Swiss bank is expected to announce it will pay a $1.5 billion fine Monday in the Libor scandal.

The Fed Wednesday announced a new round of monetary easing and, in a historic turn, tied future actions to a numerical jobless target.

Berkshire Hathaway's board bought 9,200 of its shares from Warren Buffett's estate for $131,000 per share.

Also this week, China's policymakers are expected to meet on Dec. 12-14 for the annual Central Economic Work Conference (CEWC) to set the policy framework for 2013.

As U.S. budget talks continue on Capitol Hill, the Federal Reserve is expected to announce a new round of quantitative easing Wednesday.

Next year should be a good one for big banks such as Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and UBS.

ECB President Draghi faced a hostile reception at a monthly q-and-a session, as the media pressured him on Europe's economic woes.

The Oct.3 data breach of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. that led to attack on computer network and compromise of personal information has resulted in jeopardizing the interests of over 1.1 million people.

A U.S. probe of money laundering allegations could result in HSBC Holdings PLC (NYSE:HBC) paying a fine of $1.8 billion.

Tensions are mounting between U.S. and Chinese securities regulators and could mean Chinese companies' shares being delisted from U.S. exchanges.

Monday: a very good day for Greek crisis resolution. But again, the onus of solving the problem fell on taxpayers, and spared financiers.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged the Chinese affiliates of five big accounting firms with violating securities laws by not turning over work papers from their audits of China-based firms the SEC is investigating.

Credit Suisse said another big divestment was coming to the Asian insurance market.

The EU agreed to fund Spain's four nationalized banks in exchange for layoffs, asset sales and big losses for the banks' bond-holders.

A tale of how Bank of America personnel refused to believe a customer’s mother, one of their mortgage holders, had died.

The decision represents a temporary escape from Basel III.

President Obama names SEC commissioner Elisse B. Walter as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Apollo is paying $2.5 billion to buy the education business of McGraw-Hill Companies.

Knight Capital Group Inc. -- reportedly discussing with at least two different competitors a deal to sell its market-making unit -- would agree to such a transaction only in the event it would create value for its clients and shareholders.

Investment banks will continue to swing the ax in the years ahead.

The Kingdom of Spain is increasingly resorting to off-the-cuff ideas meant to somehow push against the national economy’s death spiral.

With capital gains expected to be taxed at 20 cents on the dollar next year, shareholders are set for big dividends this year.