An increase in Asian travel has seen a greater need for...

There has been a sharp decline in UK car...

Toyota Prius has become the top-selling car in Japan for...

The Australian central bank has left interest rates on hold at...

The Burger King fast food chain has been bought by Brazilian investment fund, 3G Capital, which is run by Jorge Paulo Lemann, who ranks 48 in Forbes list of...

The UN chief has called for the collective global protection of...

Afghanistan has offered a bailout for the troubled Kabul Bank, where nervous investors in droves have been withdrawing...

The China Strategic company has sunk to an 11-month low in Hong...

The Macquarie bank in Australia has warned customers that shares will be down due to a company announcement cutting its profit...

Hewlett Packard sued its former boss Mark Hurd Tuesday for breach of confidentiality agreements a day after the highly-regarded executive was hired as president of rival Oracle, The Wall Street Journal...

SEATTLE - Shares of several companies that make semiconductor equipment dropped Tuesday after a Barclays Capital analyst lowered ratings and earnings estimates due to weaker global demand for chips....

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania's financially troubled capital city is trying to avoid painful budget cuts while city leaders feud over how to deal with a staggering debt that is threatening to drag...

leading diversified communications and media company, plans to release its third quarter 2010 financial results before North American markets open the morning...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Wednesday's session are Ciena Corp., Men's Wearhouse, and Talbots. Ciena...

Bulls are finding it hard to hold the upper hand, despite some hope on the labor front and Boeing plans to double employees at a parts factory in northern China. SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) --...

Lloyd is compromised and Jamie is insufferable, so there's an opening for Bob. Among the (very) small number of Wall Street chief executives who steered their firms intact through the financial...

Bob Diamond would still have been a rum choice to run Barclays . After all, this is the man who was described by the former business secretary Peter Mandelson as the "unacceptable face of banking"...

spectacular decision to quit by sliding down an inflatable emergency slide after an altercation with a passenger, may be able to avoid going to jail for his antics.Appearing in court today on charges...

Stuart Gulliver , to take the helm. It is a far cry from two years ago when investment bankers were reluctant to leave home for fear of being heckled in the street. It was left to the GMB union to...

shares followed financial stocks in Europe lower on renewed concerns about bank health.Europe's common currency and bank stocks fell after the Wall Street Journal published an article claiming that...

Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Four office towers, a transit center designed by Santiago Calatrava, a memorial and museum at the downtown Manhattan site of the World Trade Center may be complete by 2014,...

Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Sanofi-Aventis SA’s Chief Executive Officer Chris Viehbacher took his case for a takeover directly to Genzyme Corp.’s investors in meetings in New York yesterday,...

banking and has been criticized for his lavish pay, will become chief executive next year, the company announced on Tuesday. Diamond, branded "the unacceptable face of banking" by a former government...

The New Zealand dollar fell back under 72 US cents as Wall Street traders returned from their holiday in a downbeat mood amid the reignited fears about the state of Europe's financial sector. The...

By MICHAEL R. BLOODAP POLITICAL WRITER Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid knows who's to blame for the sickly economy. And it's not him. In his latest TV ad Tuesday, the Democratic leader says...

NEW YORK — Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison, one of the world's richest people, drew a pay package worth about $70 million during the company's most recent fiscal year. That's down 17...

Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. sued former Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd to block him from working as a president of Oracle...

Treasury prices rose and gold settled at a new high today as investors sought out safe assets.European stocks fell following news reports that banks there may have more risky government debt on their...

China Mobile Ltd. (CHL, 0941.HK) for GBP4.3 billion before tax and transaction costs, the first of many expected minority shareholding divestments. Vodafone also said it will continue its commercial...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan oil exports fell 8.7percent in August to an average of 2.34 million barrels per dayas a drop in sales of crude and products offset rising outputfrom the Orinoco belt,...

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. late Tuesday said it will buy ZymoGenetics Inc. for $9.75 a share in cash. The total purchase price is $885 million, or about $735 million net of cash...

Hedge-fund manager C12 Capital Management LP, led by former Barclays PLC bankers Stephen King and Michael Keeley, will launch a fixed-income multistrategy fund called Helix Liquid Opportunities Fund...

GOOG ) share of U.S. Internet searches grew slightly to 71.6% in the four weeks ended Aug. 28 from July's 71.4%, according to data provider Experian Hitwise, as the company easily maintained...

A judge Tuesday gave court-appointed investigator Joshua Hochberg until Nov. 1 to wrap up his probe of the proposed settlement of legal disputes arising out of the largest banking collapse in U.S....

Cisco Systems Incand Westcon Group North America agreed to pay $48 million tosettle allegations they gave incomplete data during contracttalks with the federal government, the U.S. Justice...

PVH ) reported a second-quarter loss as a result of acquisition costs related to the company’s merger with Tommy Hilfiger, but revenue soared and adjusted earnings per share beat expectations. The...

(Updates with details on affected unit) By Gabriela Lopez CADEREYTA, Mexico(Reuters) - An explosion rippedthrough a major Mexican refinery Tuesday, killing one workerand pushing gasoline and diesel...

Wall Street Journal reported that recent Europeanbanking sector stress tests underestimated some lenders' holdingsof potentially risky government debt. While gold rose, the euro fell as investors'...

(Updates with closing prices) By Burton Frierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Treasuries reboundedTuesday after three straight losing sessions as weaker stocks,worries about Europe's financial sector...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Programmable chipmakerAltera Corp said Tuesday its was increasing itsguidance for quarterly revenue growth to between 10 percent and14 percent sequentially due to expansion...

Dow Jones )- A Mexican judge has granted airline company Grupo Mexicana protection from creditors while it seeks to carry out what will likely be a drastic overhaul of its business in coming months,...

ALTR ) significantly increased its third-quarter revenue guidance, citing broad growth. Its shares, which had gained 18% this year as of the close Tuesday, increased 2.6% after hours to $27.30. The...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apparel makerPhillips-Van Heusen Corp posted an adjusted quarterlyprofit that surpassed analysts' expectations, helped by revenuegains in all three units, including its...

BA ) said Tuesday it plans to consolidate its military aircraft business by eliminating two divisions and laying off more than 10% of the staff in an attempt to better position for the future. The...

(Reuters) - Energy production and distribution is a dangerousbusiness, in spite of strict safety regulations in most countries in North andSouth America for oil and natural gas producers and...

(Updates to close, adds details, quotes) By Claire Sibonney TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock indexfell Tuesday alongside a global sell-off of risk-proneassets after fears about the health of...

Canadian stock market participants jumped off the bandwagon Tuesday, with the Toronto Stock Exchange’s main index falling for the first time in nine business days as some headwinds emerged.The...

Venture capitalists are loosing ground to other emerging nations according to a recent report by Deloitte and Canada's Venture Capital & Private Equity Association. Two-thirds of industry...