Small Business Saturday Is the Loneliest Shopping Holiday

Small Business Administration chief Maria Contreras-Sweet was in New York City yesterday to promote Small Business Saturday, which is Main Street’s bid for post-Thanksgiving shopping dollars.

China Overtakes Japan as World’s Second-Biggest Stock Market

China surpassed Japan as the world’s second-largest stock market for the first time in three years amid growing investor confidence that policy makers in Beijing will revive the economy with monetary stimulus.

Low oil prices are a free-market victory

Seldom has so much good news been portrayed so negatively. Oil prices continue to fall in the U.S. and around the world, but near everyone in the media is grumpy about it.

Sovereign fund forum has no plan to include central banks - official

DOHA (Reuters) - The International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF) will not invite central banks to join its ranks as they do not fit the group's definition of such a fund, a board member said on Thursday.

Former Permal Managing Director Plans Asia Fund of Hedge Funds

Steve Zhang, a former head of emerging markets investments at the Permal Group, plans to raise as much as $40 million by February for his own company to invest in hedge funds in the Asia-Pacific region.