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Here are the big corporate names who had a year to forget.

Italy's Monte dei Paschi, the world's oldest operating bank, needs a bailout worth ?8.8 billion ($9.2 billion).

Stocks have soared so dramatically in the final few weeks of the year due to optimism about Donald Trump's plans for economic stimulus and tax cuts once he takes office. But some worry that the market is now way ahead of itself.

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Iran says it will pay only half the announced $16.6 billion price for 80 commercial airliners from Boeing.

This week in stocks: Dow still not at 20,000, Retail's last stand; Trump tweet watch.

Since the global financial crisis, the world's largest banks have agreed to pay close to $60 billion in fines just to the U.S. Department of Justice for creating and selling toxic mortgage-backed investments.

Richard Baldwin, who worked on trade for President George H. W. Bush says the next phase of globalization will be 'wilder' and 'less fair.' He warns Donald Trump to not try to protect blue collar jobs.

Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $3.1 billion to the U.S. government to settle claims that it packaged up toxic mortgages between 2005 and 2007.

Chinese regulators have fined GM's local joint venture the equivalent of $29 million, saying it broke antitrust rules.

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Goldman Sachs accounts for 24% of the Dow's post-election rally. It's a sign of how investors are betting big banks will benefit from higher rates, less regulation and more M&A.

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Oprah Winfrey continues to lose weight thanks to Weight Watchers. Shares surged on the news of her latest ad campaign. But they are still down sharply this year despite Oprah's involvement with (and investment in) the company.

Elizabeth Warren warned that big banks and Republicans want to "strangle" the CFPB, the consumer watchdog that fined Wells Fargo $100 million for creating fake accounts.

The game has been downloaded more than 40 million times since its release, but few people are paying for it.

The U.S. economy grew 3.5% in the third quarter, according to the final estimate by the Commerce Department.

Everything on sale at Goldgenie, a store in the United Arab Emirates, is either solid gold, gold plated or diamond encrusted.

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