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An Annapolis-based financier of clean energy infrastructure has filed plans to go public, hoping to raise up to $250 million from investors

Millennial Media isn't letting stock market swings distract it from a mission to compete with Google, Apple and Facebook in the mobile advertising market.

As Jos. A. Bank Clothiers prepares to announce year-end and quarterly results this week, Zacks Investment Research has downgraded the retailer's stock to a strong sell rating, citing the company's January warning that fiscal year profit will be off 20 percent.

In a quarter-century, Americans have never felt less secure about retirement savings, and it appears their concerns are more than justified

Legg Mason Inc.'s stock, which struggles to recover from the financial crisis of 2008, hit a new 52-week high last week.

Robert Reich writes that U.S. government policy favors the wealthy and punishes the rest of us.

There appears to be a growing disconnect between Washington and Wall Street in which investors have become immune to politician-manufactured crises that pop up every few months

Record high Dow is welcome news but the stock market uptick is no endorsement of Washington's dysfunctional budgetary policies

Joseph A. Sullivan, who has served as interim leader of Legg Mason Inc. for more than four months, has been named CEO and president of the Baltimore-based money manager, the company announced this morning.

To the victors go the spoils, but those accolades mean little to the Loyola men's lacrosse team.

Super Bowl Most Valuable Player taping show today with Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan

Legg Mason Inc. reported Friday that it lost $453.9 million in the third quarter due to a previously announced noncash charge of $734 million related to the re-evaluation of certain assets.

Spicemaker McCormick & Co.'s stock price swooned by more than $4 a share Thursday after the company's earnings forecast for the year fell short of what Wall Street analysts anticipated.

In summer 2007, a complicated deal to buy Tribune Co. and take it private reflected all the dangers of an easy-money era when caution was pushed aside.

Investment outlook for 2013

Nielsen Holdings announced Tuesday that it reached an agreement to acquire Columbia-based Arbitron Inc. in a deal valued at nearly $1.26 billion in cash.

Some citizens aren't waiting to find out if the White House and Republicans in Congress will be able to reach a last-minute deal to pull the country away from the "fiscal cliff."

PRWeb misses fraudulent press release

After the big shopping days of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, nonprofits across the country want you to spend more — on Giving Tuesday

MedImmune leaders say the company is at a key point in developing drugs for AstraZeneca and has grown despite fears its acquisition would hurt Maryland.

Orioles center fielder Adam Jones will ring the closing bell on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor on Friday.

Republican Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett, who has represented Maryland's 6th District for nearly two decades, lost his bid for an 11th term Tuesday to a Democratic businessman who cast the closely watched race as a battle of different economic visions for the country.

No one confirms 'incredible' news about New York Stock Exchange before airing it.

As much of the Baltimore region shut down Monday, some businesses made sure they could stay open — come hurricane and high water.

Legg Mason reported Friday that it earned $80.8 million, or 60 cents per share, in the second quarter ended in September.

Booming Under Armour Inc. announced Thursday that it earned $57 million in the third quarter, 25 percent more than it did in the July-to-September period last year.

Pension bonds are a bad deal for Baltimore County

The CEO pay disclosed this year by the 20 largest publicly traded companies in the Baltimore region offers plenty of fodder — as it does every year — to steam the ranks of workers with paychecks that barely budge.

Kamenetz plan to borrow money to invest in pension is a sensible idea

Spice maker McCormick & Co. Inc. said Thursday that profit grew more than 13 percent in the third quarter thanks to new products, acquisitions and strength in emerging markets.

An activist investor in Annapolis' TeleCommunication Systems Inc. has called on the company to pursue a sale or merger, as the company deals with a slumped stock price over the past two years.

Baltimore-based Legg Mason is losing a CEO, but what's next?

Annapolis hotel investment firm Chesapeake Lodging Trust is selling 6.5 million shares to the public for $18.50 per share, the firm announced in a statement Thursday.

Annapolis hotel investment firm Chesapeake Lodging Trust is selling 6.5 million shares to the public for $18.50 per share, the firm announced in a statement Thursday.

Only a strengthened middle class will boost spending and rescue the economy

Mark R. Fetting to step down as chairman and CEO of Legg Mason, possibly setting the stage for sale of some of the company's affiliates

President Obama's supporters like to trumpet the killing of bin Laden, but all he did was give the order any of us would have given.

Even as Democrats build their case for an Obama second term, they struggle with the 'better off' question that actually plays to their strengths

Things are getting better under Obama, despite Fox News mantra

McCormick & Co. has signed an agreement to buy Chinese company Wuhan Asia-Pacific Condiments for $114 million, the Sparks-based firm announced Monday.

McCormick & Co. has signed an agreement to buy Chinese company Wuhan Asia-Pacific Condiments for $114 million, the Sparks-based firm announced Monday.

Sports apparel maker Under Armour Inc. reported a 7 percent gain in second-quarter earnings Tuesday, beating Wall Street estimates as new offerings in women's apparel and footwear helped drive sales increases.

Contemporary wrestling fans know Jerry 'The King' Lawler as the voice of the WWE.

One week after Baltimore County's retirement system lowered its long-term expectations of how much it will earn on investments, the state system faces a similar decision Tuesday – one with potentially significant consequences for current and future retirees and Maryland taxpayers.

Medifast Inc. is growing so fast in the weight-loss food product industry that there will soon come a time when it outgrows its sole production facility in Owings Mills and builds plants elsewhere.

The developers of National Harbor announced Friday they have reached an agreement with Las Vegas giant MGM Resorts International to develop a luxury casino at the proposed gambling site on the Potomac River.