It’s been a wild ride so far this year for shareholders of Sarepta Therapeutics Inc SRPT 2.71%. The year got off to a disastrous start back in January when the stock plummeted 55 percent in a single trading day after the FDA released advisory committee briefing documents that were highly critical of the company’s leading…

George Soros has reportedly returned to betting against the U.S. stock market.

Donald Trump’s aggressive plan to deport the 11 million illegal immigrants currently living in the United States has certainly struck a chord with Trump’s supporters. However, the economic reality of such a plan could change a lot of people’s minds.

Q2 looks to be shaping up to be a strong one for semiconductor suppliers. According to checks done by Bluefin Research, Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd. (ADR) TSM 0.89% supplier demand is on track to rise 14 percent sequentially in Q2 and another 3.0 percent sequentially in Q3.

Six years after Meredith Whitney told “60 Minutes” that municipal bonds were the “largest threat to the U.S. economy,” Whitney may finally be starting to feel some vindication. For years, Whitney was chastised by the Wall Street Journal and others for being totally wrong on her call for 50 to 100 “sizable” defaults in the…

California’s controversial new “aid-in-dying” law takes effect this week. The law allows doctors to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to terminally ill patients who seek such prescriptions.

Just when it looked like things couldn’t get much worse for economically-ravaged Venezuela, residents may no longer be able to drown their sorrows. Empresas Polar SA, maker of 80 percent of the beer consumed in Venezuela, is shutting down its last plant this Friday.

The modern world of finance is all about advanced technology systems, data analysis software, high-frequency trading algorithms and robo-advisors. The financial community has even spawned a name for the rise of financial technology: “fintech.”