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Swarming by daytraders around a small number of stocks such as Tesla and Netflix can supercharge moves in the shares, both up and down.

Hollywood, increasingly reliant on big-budget spectacles that make hundreds of millions of dollars, may be headed over a blockbuster cliff.    

J.C. Penney plans to beef up its audits of factories in Bangladesh by requiring them for the first time to undergo structural and engineering inspections.

Young writers show an appetite for risk in college application essays about money, class and the economy, submitted at a columnist’s invitation.    

Is tax law being widely flouted by political groups determined to avoid disclosure of their donors?    

The China Investment Federation, a new organization supporting Sino-American deal-making, celebrated the opening of its New York office on Thursday with officials from Wall Street and China.