Wall Street

The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking to relax rules on how shares for private companies are traded. This could have big implications for big tech companies like Facebook and Twitter.

The Wall Street Journal's Leslie Scism discusses the paper's findings in an investigation of shares bought by former Berkshire Hathaway exec David Sokol, and how that has impacted the company's — and CEO Warren Buffett's — reputation.

Investment banks got paid a lot of money to structure and sell bad mortgages; they're also getting paid pretty nicely to clean up the mess….

New York Bureau Chief Heidi Moore discusses what impact the Nasdaq-100 Index rebalancing will have on some of the world's largest tech companies.

Reviewing the week in Wall Street with Marketplace New York bureau chief Heidi Moore and Cardiff Garcia from FT Alphaville. This week: budget cuts, the government shutdown and jobs numbers.

NASDAQ and InterContinental Exchange put in a $11.3 billion offer today to buy the New York Stock Exchange, just weeks after the NYSE agreed to a merger with Germany's Deutsche Borse.

The sudden resignation of Berkshire Hathaway exec David Sokol is raising questions around what it means to be a successor and whether anyone can really replace a CEO like Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs or Rupert Murdoch.

Warren Buffett's go-to man and expected contender to take over as CEO at Berkshire Hathaway, David Sokol, has resigned. The search for a new successor is now underway.

The Madoff fraud raised awareness that doing too well for too long can be a tip-off that something's not right.