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The shock of Sept. 11, 2011 brought a heightened focus to building safety and begat many new security measures. Bank of America, like many companies, is quiet about enhanced safety at its building at One Bryant Park in New York. Photographer: David Sundberg for Bloomberg

Bloomberg.com asked notable entrepreneurs, including panelists at Bloomberg Link's 2011 Empowered Entrepreneur conference in New York, what they do in their professional or personal lives to cut costs. After all, new businesses bleed cash. Entrepreneurs have to get creative at cutting corners by...

Kweku Adoboli, the trader arrested yesterday on suspicion of fraud at UBS AG, hired lawyers at Kingsley Napley LLP in London to represent him, a spokeswoman for the law firm said today in a phone interview.

European finance ministers ruled out efforts to prop up the faltering economy and gave no indication of providing aid for lenders to go along with yesterday’s liquidity lifeline from the European Central Bank.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the fifth-biggest U.S. bank by assets, will shut its Global Alpha fund after clients pulled money from the quantitative trading pool that was once the firm’s largest hedge fund.

Since the owner of the New York Stock Exchange agreed in February to sell itself in return for equity in Deutsche Boerse, the value of the $9.53 billion agreement has plummeted by 21 percent, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The decline is the largest of any all-stock takeover worth $1 billi...

Nearly two-thirds of Americans hold a favorable view of her and one-third are suffering a form of buyer’s remorse, saying the U.S. would be better off now if she had become president in 2008 instead of Barack Obama.

In the decade that ended Dec. 31, 2010, the Standard & Poor's 500 dropped 4.7 percent. Yet if dividends are included, the stock index returned a positive 15 percent.Such is the appeal of stocks that pay their shareholders each quarter. Even if stock prices stagnate, dividend stocks...

Bank of America Corp., the largest U.S. mortgage servicer, failed to make a list of companies doing a satisfactory job of assisting homeowners struggling to pay their mortgage, according to Fannie Mae.

In Tiffany Spaulding’s 12 years in the pharmaceutical industry, she’s worked for three companies, two of which no longer exist, and relocated to four states.

We don't usually put a price tag on our pets. The sight of a dog thrilled to bits every...single...day by the fact you exist is priceless. They're fun to pamper, and most owners would do anything for them. What might come as a shock is how much you end up spending on your pooch. Bloomberg's Rankings...