Ever wonder what it's like to spend a night on a Russian tycoon's super yacht? Once you got past the inappropriate levels of drinking, bare-chested homophobia and dark whiffs of czarism, it's probably lovely. It might, in fact, be something very much …

Semafo Inc. soared 13 percent to pace gains among gold producers. Kinross Gold Corp. (K) and B2Gold Corp. rose at least 3.9 percent. Silver Wheaton (SLW) Corp. climbed 3.2 percent as silver trimmed earlier losses. Bombardier Inc. fell 1.5 percent, …

Dollar, US Treasuries yield fall ahead of Fed minutes * Gold put options premium down, calls discount vanishes * US gold coins demand tumbles, Chinese India buying soft * Coming up: US existing home sales, FOMC minutes Weds. By Frank Tang and Zhe …

Temple Muse, a luxury boutique in Lagos' posh Victoria Island suburb, belongs to the new generation of stores that cater for affluent Africans, who used to buy their clothes overseas but now yearn for garments that reflect their heritage. “We choose …

The people who frequent the website Reddit.com, which bills itself as “the front page of the internet,” are overwhelmingly young, male, fairly affluent, and, generally, interested in—or work with—computers. … PayPal—“Their customer service is the …

… public standards for what we at the Center for American Progress refer to as Qualified Student Loans, or loans that cannot be easily discharged in bankruptcy, which has been done for other types of financial products as a way to identify safer …

Their original idea was straightforward, if eventually unsuccessful: They would develop apps, features, and other software that hardware companies could bundle with their products to justify higher prices and escape commoditization. …. Fuhu has a …

In Japan, the birthplace of instant ramen, the consumer appetite for novel ramen products is so ravenous that manufacturers introduce 600 new flavors a year, the authors report. But it all started in the postwar … And they foresee a world of 9 …

Under the Boycott Law, continuing the above campaign might have exposed Gush Shalom to hundreds of tort actions by settlement-based corporations, resulting in a far from affluent movement having to pay many millions in damages and being effectively …