Investment Banking

The Federal Reserve's 'stress tests' of big banks requires them to maintain sufficient capital, even after a nightmare economic scenario in which stock prices fall by 65% and unemployment surges to 10%.

Cannabis tech is solving problems for companies trying to better understand the consumer and their needs. Akerno's CEO explains.

Will Slack help set a new trend for IPO strategy among red-hot technology companies?

Watch the Russell 2000: It closed at 1550, which is where the 200-day moving average line resides -- if it can get up and over this level, it can improve, but if it slips, those moving average lines become problematic.

Stifel Financial is in talks to acquire Toronto-based GMP Capital in a deal that would see a U.S. company swallow one of the last independent investment banks in Canada, according to The Globe and Mail.

Bank of America stock is trying to rally, but may be stalling out. Here are the must-know levels going forward.

Intel agrees to buy startup Barefoot Networks in a bid to both diversify its chip offerings and also keep up with rival Broadcom.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council, a panel of top U.S. regulators charged with preventing future financial crises, met Thursday to discuss the past decade's surge in corporate borrowing, much of it by companies with junk-grade credit rating. An economic downturn likely would bring a wave of credit-rating downgrades and debt defaults that could ripple across markets.

Goldman Sachs doesn't make many acquisitions, but when it does buy a company, the founders often end up working at the Wall Street firm, as appears to be the case for Joe Duran, founder of United Capital.

The five biggest U.S. private-equity firms have raised almost $350 billion of 'dry powder' from pension funds, foreign governments and other institutional investors that must now be spent on everything from corporate acquisitions to business loans and real estate. The problem is, the assets have gotten too expensive.