Unfortunately, many people decide to retire without really thinking through the decision, and that can have dire circumstances.

As Alibaba Group's buyback of half of Yahoo's stake paves the way for a possible public listing for the Chinese internet giant, one strategist tells CNBC if the company wants to stay competitive in the domestic market it needs to expand, for which it must raise a lot of capital.

Trading, measured by the turnover in Hong Kong and Singapore equities, fell in the first four months of the year on concerns over Europe's debt crisis and as investors seek alternative investments to stocks ...

With Facebook shares trading close to their $38 offer price and revelations that retail investors got a larger-than-expected slice of the $18.4 billion IPO, market watchers are questioning whether the ...

India is set to overtake the U.S. as the world's largest Facebook market by number of users as early as 2015, according to social media analysts, driven by growing internet penetration and high rates of ...

Wall Street strategists are the most negative they've been on stocks since the bull market began more than three years ago. But many traders actually see it as a contrarian sign to invest in the market....

Facebook is staring down some unnerving obstacles when it comes to key areas of monetization and growth: public distrust and display advertising apathy.

The Facebook gravy train is a long one - and some of the people who will benefit from the initial public offering are ones you might not expect.

Despite earlier reports of weak demand, Facebook 's initial public offering is highly oversubscribed and could result in a higher price range for the shares next week, sources told CNBC Friday.

Hong Kong, the hottest initial public offering (IPO) market in the world in 2011, has seen a precipitous slowdown in listings because of market uncertainty and low valuations.

The days of huge pay packages for CEO's running big global businesses are under threat from leading shareholders, whom some think are beginning their own version of the Arab Spring. On Tuesday, the boss ...

A "global perfect storm" looms for 2013 in which the U.S. economy could fall back into recession and the euro zone will begin to break up, according to the latest gloomy forecast from economist ...

The pop star formerly known as Vanilla Ice has spent the past 15 years flipping houses in Florida and has found it as rewarding as the music business.

That little bundle of joy is going to require a wad of cash. The cost of raising a child from birth to age 17 has surged 25 percent over the last 10 years.

Not only are people getting better at picking the right partner, couples are also becoming increasingly comfortable with the ebb and flow of incomes in their relationships.

Warren Buffett said Friday he had no plans to invest in the Facebook initial public offering, but said what's happening with the social media giant is "extraordinary."

Facebook is set to raise the roof off Wall Street with its upcoming initial public offering, which has a target valuation on the social-media giant as high as $110 billion.

Facebook is ready to launch its IPO road show as early as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter, if no last-minute red flags from the Securities and Exchange Commission are raised.

The U.S. isn't going back into a recession, though economic growth has slowed, Goldman Sach's chief equity strategist Abby Joseph Cohen told CNBC Monday.

A committee of UK members of parliament is preparing a "damning" report on phone-hacking that will add to the pressure piled on News Corp's Rupert and James Murdoch.

Goldman Sachs is turning increasingly bearish on the U.S. economy, expecting the nation to have added only 125,000 new jobs in April, as the effects of a warm winter, which buoyed employment late last ...

The company behind the Angry Birds mobile gaming sensation is on the hunt for further acquisitions as it attempts to turn the business into a global media giant, its chief executive told CNBC in an interview....

The credit crisis was partly caused by poor financial advice, and more genuinely independent financial advisers could help avert another crisis, according to renowned economist Robert Shiller.

"Without knowing why or how, we seem to have hatched our own oligarchs, and we stand aghast and bewildered at this flock of monstrous cuckoos," author Ferdinand Mount writes.

European banks need bail-ins rather than bailouts of fresh capital, as the European Central Bank's liquidity operations come to an end, according to ratings agency Fitch.

The Federal Reserve is doing more harm to the U.S. economy than good by keeping interest rates artificially low and continuing its "monetary medicine", Peter Boockvar, portfolio manager and equity ...

The French housing market would be the next bubble to pop if the European Central Bank increases interest rates, or if markets begin to perceive the same fundamental weaknesses in France as they currently ...

The head of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group said the American heartland will provide the best return for investors, who should avoid large states like California, Illinois and New Jersey.

Less than two weeks before the potential launch of Facebook's initial public offering roadshow, a string of acquisitions and other business distractions are threatening to delay the sale, say people familiar with the matter.

Several reports are pointing to a weaker-than-expected quarter for Apple's iPhone sales ahead of the tech giant's earnings, raising further worries for the company's stock that already is down sharply in just a few weeks.

Facebook's blockbuster initial public offering could be coming at just the right time for markets - right when investors are preparing for the seemingly annual ritual to sell in May and go away.

Apple's recent selloff has some experts recommending investors buy on the dips, but skeptics say the decline-coupled with Tuesday's earnings report-could be the beginning of a bigger slide for the tech giant.

A couple of weeks ago European finance ministers attended an informal meeting in Copenhagen to sign off on one of the final components of the plan to deal with the debt crisis once and for all.