Why a hedging policy sits at the crux of effective financial risk management.

Savvy treasury teams look for natural offsets to financial risks before purchasing external instruments.

Instead, most see Democrats' 1% levy on buybacks as "part of the cost of doing business."

Across the country, states and cities have passed, or are currently considering, legislation that would require employers to offer prospective workers more information about their compensation.

The U.S. Treasury said its database will contain personal information on the owners of at least 32 million U.S. businesses as part of an effort to combat illicit finance.

Because of supply-chain issues, some manufacturers say they're paying more in fines to the nation's biggest retail chains than they are earning on the correlated invoices.

For companies that formerly operated in Russia and have ceased operations there indefinitely, the status of intellectual property rights is tenuous at best.

The shortfall in merchandise trade shrank 3.2 percent, to the smallest it's been in more than a year.