Hatchimals may be the runaway toy hit of 2016 but don't count out Barbie just yet from grabbing the crown as this year's holiday sales race comes down to the wire.
Since the global financial crisis, the world's largest banks have agreed to pay close to $60 billion in fines just to the U.S. Department of Justice for creating and selling toxic mortgage-backed investments.
Shares of a small oil refining company controlled by Carl Icahn soared 10.5% Thursday after Icahn was tapped by President-elect Trump to advise his administration on how to cut government regulations.
Deutsche Bank has struck a deal worth $7.2 billion with the U.S. government to settle claims that it packaged and sold toxic mortgages between 2005 and 2007.
Aja Jefferson, a freshman at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, needs to come up with $1,300 more for tuition next semester -- and so do tens of thousands of other Louisiana college students.
A federal lawsuit accuses Barclays of defrauding investors who bought mortgage securities from the bank before they blew up during the financial crisis.