IMS Health said it is exploring a variety of "strategic alternatives," but did not comment further on the possibility of a sale following media reports a day earlier citing anonymous people familiar with the matter.

The biggest commodity on Wall Street is information, and savvy players will do almost anything for it, the New York Times reports.

IMS Health is in talks with private equity firms about the sale of the company, a source familiar with the situation said on Monday.

Carbon may be the next great investment opportunity but private capital is still trying to get its arms around around it. The ideal carbon investment structure may be a hybrid of private equity and hedge funds models.

A look inside one of alternative investment's best kept secrets: the Greenwich Roundtable.

Wholesale chicken prices have turned upside down. The once-lowly wing is selling at a premium over what has long been the gold standard of poultry parts, the skinless boneless chicken breast.

Stocks shot out of the gate Monday, fueled by earnings optimism, but then pulled back near the final hour of trading as investors took some profits.

Stocks opened higher Monday as better-than-expected third-quarter results began trickling in, boosting investors' optimism about the overall earnings season.

Futures indicated a mildly higher open for Wall Street on Monday as better-than-expected third-quarter results began trickling in, boosting investors' optimism about the overall earnings season.

The famous World War II General George S. Patton used to say that he didn’t judge a man by how high he climbed, but by how high he bounced after hitting the bottom.

How so many people could make so much money on a the Simmons Bedding Company  - now driven into bankruptcy  - is a tale of these financial times and an example of a growing phenomenon in corporate America.

Simmons, the maker of Beautyrest mattresses and other bedding products, said Friday that it plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and implement a restructuring plan that will help significantly lower its debt.

It’s been four decades since the go-go years of the late 1960s, when hot mutual funds captured the imagination of investors by reporting performance that was too good to be true. It’s been so long that Bank of America seems to have forgotten what happened.

The private equity industry has endured a tumultuous year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers and some underperforming funds could end up closing their books as a result. But many of the funds that have survived the crisis now find themselves in a strong position with a large amount of cash, looking for investment opportunities, one market expert told CNBC.

China is set to tighten its hammerlock on the market for some of the world’s most obscure but valuable minerals, says the New York Times.