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Taxpayers are picking up part of the tab for BP's disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year, but a top Senator is moving to stop it. 

The SEC told Nasdaq officials to issue a statement last week to clarify remarks made by its CEO on the DOJ's approval of a potential NYSE deal.

The move was unusual because the conventional wisdom held that the Nasdaq wanted to keep and expand the NYSE's listings business, which is where companies pay as much as $500,000 to hold the imprimatur of the NYSE on their shares and be designated an NYSE-listed stock.

Wall Street is betting that Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s fate is in the hands of the U.S. Justice Department.

Gasparino: Fresh off his failed attempt at taking over the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq chief executive Robert Greifeld is looking for a consolation prize, sources tell the FOX Business Network.

Compare and contrast the downgrade threats from Moody's Investor Services today with Standard & Poor's warning back in April. You'll see Moody's cites the debt ceiling fight in Washington, whereas S&P assiduously does not.

An estimated 90,000 people living in 350 cities and towns across the country got nearly $400 million in taxpayer-funded crop subsidies last year, says a top environmental watchdog group.

At a time of rising joblessness and possibly higher taxes to fight the deficit, why is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continuing to spend tax dollars on anti-pollution programs in countries like Canada, Mexico, Russia, China and India?

These high school kids are going to smoke the competition once they get out into the real world.

A surprising new GAO report shows that taxpayers have been footing the bill for retiree costs not just for federal workers, but for independent freelance contractors who do work for the government as well. And no one is watching the store to see if your tax dollars are being wasted. 

Exclusive: Sprecher approached a Big Board executive to deliver what has been described as a mea culpa to Niederauer.

Without any government help or bank loans, New York City's Gail Nord is a big hit in the small business world. 

Big Wall Street bank CEOs likely will be noticeably absent from next week's $38,500-a-head fundraiser for President Obama.

Exclusive: Senators Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) have sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder demanding answers as to why 17 cases of fraud and abuse have gone unprosecuted.

GOP senators push a new amendment to stop the IMF's use of $108 billion in US tax dollars to bailout Greece and other European basket cases. 

The doctor-merger wave in response to health reform may not keep health costs down.

Pssst--analysis of 172 industry groups across the country found sales growth is on the rise. Surprise!

The summer of recovery? Where did it go?

Is America turning into Uzbekistan when it comes to politicians using your tax dollars to name buildings, bridges or roads after themselves?

Hair braiders, wrestlers, tour guides, frozen dessert sellers, florists, fireworks sellers, interior designers, second hand book sellers, and frozen-dessert sellers. These are just some of the jobs government says you must be licensed to do, wrecking job growth and innovation, a new study finds.