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CNBC's John Harwood reports on new developments in the Congressional investigation of the IRS scandal. Jeffrey Lord, American Spectator, and David Goodfriend, Democratic strategist, discuss.
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Chesapeake Energy hired Robert Douglas Lawler of rival Anadarko Petroleum as its new chief executive.
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Consumer spending is likely to pick up this year, while government spending declines at a faster rate, according to a survey of business economists.
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GE Capital, the financial arm of industrial giant General Electric, will return $6.5 billion worth of dividends back to its parent company over the course of the year.
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Shao Jiong, Regional Head of Internet & Chief China Strategist at Macquarie, gives his top picks in the Chinese internet space.
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There's a lot on the agenda as Detroit's emergency financial manager tries to meet a deadline to decide whether the city and escape a bankruptcy filing.
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The world’s largest asset manager is far from being an activist investor, but it is starting to ask more questions, the New York Times reports.
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Jennifer Aniston is one of Hollywood's leading stars. Aniston spoke exclusively with CNBC's Maria Bartiromo about what motivated her to get into the hair care business.
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Wall Street's stock market mania officially has gone full-throttle as JPMorgan raised its year-end price target for the Standard & Poor's 500 to 1,715.
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Investors had every reason not to trust the market after last year's Facebook fiasco—a high-profile IPO gone bad on multiple levels. Yet trust is coming back.
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Chris Bertelsen, CIO at Global Financial Private Capital, shares his incite into the US QE and when to expect the effects, and which stocks are going to be great opportunities in the US market.
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Bruce Kasman, Chief Economist & Managing Director of Global Research at JP Morgan says that the global environment is shifting in favor of risky assets with reduced tail risks after global central bank moves.
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Jim McCaughan, CEO at Principal Global Investors says the Fed has been on the right track and very transparent about its plans.
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The Federal Reserve could begin easing up on the monetary gas pedal this summer and end its bond buys late this year, a top Fed official said Thursday, citing "good news" on jobs.
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Parents might not recognize E. Robert Kinney by name, but they owe him a debt of gratitude for popularizing what might be the only kind of fish their kids will eat.
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Forget the dotcom bubble; Krispy Kreme created a donut bubble a decade ago, reports CNBC's Jane Wells.
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"Candy Crush" is now the world's most popular game. Sean McGowan, Needham & Company, and CNBC's Julia Boorstin, weigh in.
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A shareholder coup at newly merged commodities group Glencore Xstrata ousted chairman Sir John Bond on Thursday, along with all other former directors from Xstrata.
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France's fall back into recession is likely to pile more pressure on the country's finance ministry, at a time when infighting has already led one senior politician to fuel rumors that Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici could be replaced.
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.160x105.jpg?v=1366815023 "Samsung Beats Google to Android Profits: Report")
Samsung has become the "undisputed king" of the Android smartphone industry, creating more profit from the software than Google, according to new research.
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This is the script of CNBC's news report for China's CCTV on Thursday, 16 May.