Mergers and Acquisitions

Without Glass-Steagall, American taxpayers are responsible for losses, as big banks count on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's insurance fund to back up their risky trading activities.

A deal, covering a portfolio of patents and staff valued at $1 billion or more, could be reached in the next week.

Stories moving the markets and shaking up the world.

But in deliberations that have swung wildly from nearly complete to nearly dissolving over the past three months, anything is possible.

The industry has been consolidating to survive a decline in print ad sales.

Former Idaho Gov. Butch Otter is trying to stop an international mining merger he said could tie Chinese investment to the only cobalt deposits in the U.S.

The two companies have partnered with each other previously on a drug to treat rheumatoid arthritis.

Viacom and CBS are key parts for the media empire cobbled together by Shari’s father, Sumner Redstone.