A federal appeals court refused to reconsider an earlier decision upholding the process by which BP must compensate businesses claiming damages over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Brady W. Dougan is a low-key Midwesterner who drives a Prius. He is also the chief executive of the first large bank to be criminally convicted in decades.

In 1965 Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, predicted that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits, which had doubled every year since they were invented, would continue to do so for the foreseeable future. That prediction proved remarkably visionary.

Jamie Miller runs information technology for one of the most complex and admired companies in the world: General Electric. One would think that the CIO of such a company would have a deep technical background, perhaps having an advanced degree in an engineering discipline along with multiple stints as CIO previously.  Miller's resume may not have these items on it, but she has something that IT departments increasingly need: financial expertise.

The case against Credit Suisse signaled a shift in federal prosecutors’ approach to Wall Street, potentially laying the groundwork for other banks to plead guilty.