There’s been a flurry of job departures among sell-side stock analysts in 2016. Traders likely recognize some of the bigger names that have gotten the job-hopping itch.

Sothebys BID 0.12% shares were up more than 4.6 percent on Thursday following news from rival auction house Christie’s that long-time chairman Brett Gorvy is departing the company. Gorvy spearheaded an era of massive success for Christie’s while serving as head of postwar and contemporary art.

In a recent post on LinkedIn Corp LNKD, Josh Elman, partner at Greylock, explained why social media apps and other software may be getting a bit less intuitive. According to Elman, there’s a hidden value in making certain software less intuitive and more shareable.

The holiday shopping season is the most important time of the year for many retailers, but a new study by Moovweb reveals that some of the biggest names in U.S. retail, including Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WMT 0.37%, J C Penney Company Inc JCP 3.31% and Best Buy Co Inc BBY 0.63%, are missing out on…

With President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration coming up in January, President Barack Obama’s historic eight-year term in office will be coming to a close. In today’s heated political climate, Obama has received plenty of praise and criticism during his time in the White House.

Democratic senators took the chance to use the lame-duck session to work in one more gridlock this week. This time, the issue is over the stop-gap spending bill passed by the House this week, which would fund government operations through late April.

The Chinese government took casino investors on a wild ride Thursday when the imposition of new ATM transaction limits in Macau caught the market by surprise.

It may be hard to imagine a world without Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 0.17%, but the Amazon era is still less than 20 years old. In fact, the Amazon online marketplace launched just 16 years ago, back in 2000.

Thursday is the final trading day for two popular crude oil trading instruments: VelocityShares 3X Long Crude ETN linked to the S&P GSCI Crude Oil Index Excess Return UWTI and VelocityShares 3X Inverse Crude ETN linked to the S&P GSCI Crude Oil Index Excess Return DWTI. At the closing bell, Credit Suisse will no longer…

Oil traders will be losing a pair of the most popular leveraged trading tools this week. Credit Suisse has announced the delisting of the VelocityShares 3X Inverse Crude ETN linked to the S&P GSCI Crude Oil Index Excess Return DWTI and the VelocityShares 3X Long Crude ETN linked to the S&P GSCI Crude Oil Index…