NEW YORK (AP) - Before visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art can stroll past the Picassos, Renoirs, Rembrandts and other priceless works, they must first deal with the ticket line, the posted $25 adult admission and the meaning of the word in sm... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (AP) - A lawyer is suing New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, claiming the institution is purposely misleading people about how much they have to pay to get in. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - British recruitment firm Hays saw a 10 percent drop in fees from permanent job placements in the second half of last year, as jobseekers worried by the fragile economy decided to play safe and stay in their current jobs. Speaking a... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - A growing number of U.S. listed public companies are changing the way they issue shares to reduce their underwriting costs and protect themselves from big market shocks. The switch often makes sense for companies, but for Wall Street bank... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Bank of America Corp , the second largest U.S. bank, is holding off on plans for new checking-account fees that could have affected some 10 million customers by year's end, avoiding a possible repeat of last year's protests over... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Inflation jumped to a five-month high in October, driven by higher university fees and food prices, official data showed on Tuesday, just a day before the Bank of England publishes fresh economic forecasts. Annual consumer price in... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - BlackRock Inc said on Monday it is slashing fees on six of its exchange-traded funds and introducing four new ETFs. The firm's new ETFs include the iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF, which costs 0.18 percent, far less t... [Full Article]
Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Phone platform continues to struggle but its income from the smartphone industry is booming. How is this possible? Simple: patent royalties. Microsoft has a number of licensing deals in place with vendors that sell millions... [Full Article]
When it rains, it pours. And in RIM's case, it turns into a Noah-style biblical flood. Bloomberg News, via The Financial Post, reports that the troubled BlackBerry maker is now facing pressure from mobile carriers to slash the fees it charges them in... [Full Article]