The U.S. dollar was sharply weaker Friday as stocks drifted...

Auditors, former executives, Barclays Bank, and Wall Street banks have copped a serve from a court-appointer examiner who probed the Lehman Brothers...

Australia's biggest banks are gouging its customers, the Reserve Bank of Australia...

Junk bonds and other risky investment instruments are being sought after, pushing prices above those of investment grade...

The US Ambassador to India Timothy J. Roemer on Thursday inaugurated an annual international food festival 'Aahar-2010' in the national...

San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen is expected to be nominated to become Ben Bernanke's...

The American president told the U.S. Export-Import Bank in Washington he was launching a new strategy to improve...

Sri Lanka will soon build a second international airport on the south of the island, with much of the money coming from...

There has been no agreement reached between British Airways and the Unite...

In the US, the school board in Kansas City has decided to close 26 of the city's 59 public schools to keep the district afloat...

A surge in bank shares returned the major indices to the black Thursday, after rough sailing earlier in the...

NEW YORK — Interest rates were mixed in the bond market Friday after uneven economic reports gave investors conflicting signals. Long-term Treasury prices rebounded after sliding Thursday....

NEW YORK - Interest rates were mixed in the bond market Friday after uneven economic reports gave investors conflicting signals. Long-term Treasury prices rebounded after sliding Thursday. The rise...

Apco Oil and Gas generated net income attributable to Apco of $23.5 million in 2009, or $0.80 per share, compared with net income of $23.8 million, or $0.81 per share in 2008. Net income...

EVEP ) today announced plans to release 2009 fourth quarter and full year results on March 16, 2010 after market close. In conjunction with the release, EV Energy Partners has scheduled a...

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Financial stocks may remain in investors' focus Friday evening, with shares of Charles Schwab losing ground during the regular session after the discount broker warned of...

Lehman Brothers ' chief executive, Dick Fuld? After this week's 2,200-page potboiler from the bankruptcy courts, one former Lehman banker has an uncompromising opinion."I think this is gross...

Kraft 's Irene Rosenfeld is not alone in receiving a frosty reception after a takeover. Nowhere is this more apparent than in football, where fans have a public platform to make their feelings...

Sam Husain, chief executive of Foyles. Photograph: Martin Godwin In an age of buy-one-get-one-free and half-price stickers, it is rare that a store earns shopper loyalty by selling goods at full...

Computerworld - Microsoft confirmed today that a security update for its Excel spreadsheet had turned English text in an important Windows tool into Chinese. The admission was the second in the past...

March 12 (Bloomberg) -- WTC Captive Insurance Co., a victims’ fund set up after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, reached a settlement of as much as $657 million with 10,000 workers...

March 12 (Bloomberg) -- “Alice in Wonderland,” Tim Burton’s reimagining of the Lewis Carroll tale, is doing more than setting box-office records for a 3-D movie. It’s serving...

While BioMimetic awaits approval of Augment in the United States, the company has been gradually narrowing its losses. For the fourth quarter, it actually posted a profit of $1.1...

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Major companies tentatively scheduled to report quarterly earnings next week: Monday No major releases. Tuesday NEW YORK - Discover Financial Services releases...

Owners of bad loans are increasingly making deals with borrowers to avoid a foreclosure, which tends to reduce returns for investors and place a black mark on the homeowner's...

March 10: Fred Glick of US Loans Mortgage discusses his innovative idea for mortgage relief with CNBC. Christopher Thornberg, of Beacon Economics, shares his...

oil would peak sometime between 2008 and 2018. And other researchers have argued there are decades to go before oil production goes into irreversible decline. The only thing they all agree on: Oil is...

Berlin: Dubai-based airline Emirates is on track to reach its full-year earnings target of Dh2 billion, its president said on Thursday. "We've had a very good year," Tim Clark said in an...

discover in ‘07, plans to launch an on-demand subscription service combining elements of Pandora, Rhapsody and Spotify in the next few months, Wired.com has learned from a well-placed source...

NEW YORK -- Crude oil retreated on Friday, giving it a slightly loss for the week, as a report that showed U.S. consumers were less upbeat in March offset a forecast for higher global oil demand and...

DOW JONES NEWSWIRES U.S. used-car prices rose about 2% in February from a month earlier, continuing gains started late last year, as the data also showed the impact from the recall of eight Toyota...

THC ) has ardent supporters who believe the party can keep on rocking, but this poster child for the market's rebound has flipped its risk-reward picture from a year ago, turning it into the Stupid...

The U.S. dollar declined versus the euro on Friday and was headed towards a sizable weekly drop versus major counterparts after better-than-expected retail-sales data and a surprise decline in...

IBADAN, Nigeria -(Dow Jones)- Nigeria's National Council on Privatization said Friday it has set up a seven-member committee to undertake "further due diligence" on prospective investors that...

(Updates with further progress reports on its deficit that are expected in May) ATHENS -(Dow Jones)- The Greek government Friday said it surpassed its budget targets for January and February, and...

WASHINGTON -- With expectations for millions of foreclosures on the horizon, only 170,000 troubled borrowers have had their mortgages modified from three-month temporary plans into more affordable...

NEW YORK -- Gold futures finished lower on Friday and for the week, as a drop in U.S. consumer sentiment continued concerns that China will further tighten access to money offset a weaker dollar....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Obama administration program to help struggling homeowners modify their mortgages has more than one million active borrowers, though fewer than 10 percent have obtained...

LOS ANGELES/DETROIT (Reuters) - In the latest blow to Toyota Motor Corp, a Southern California prosecutor filed the first consumer protection lawsuit against the automaker, claiming it had engaged in...

"It got me out of a bind," said Culver, a former Kmart employee who has since relocated near his in-laws in Tennessee where job prospects are better. "I got a little cash out of it and was able to...

BOCA RATON, Florida (Reuters) - The pace of financial regulatory reform remains slow even as the global economy struggles to recover from a crisis that many say was caused by inadequacies in the...

WAMUQ.PK ) said on Friday that it reached a deal that will bring it roughly $6 billion and help resolve its bankruptcy, but it could leave shareholders in the...

WFC.N ) said on Friday it is in talks with Baltimore officials that could avert further litigation by that city over the bank's mortgage lending...

Apple Inc. began taking pre-orders in the United States for its iPad multimedia tablet Friday, seeking to expand sales beyond the iPhone, iPod and Macintosh computer. U.S. customers who order...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Barack Obama plans to nominate San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen, a respected policy dove, to be vice chairman of the central bank, a source...

Making an emergency call on the Rogers network is about to get more expensive for some wireless customers. Well, technically the price of the call isn't going up, but your monthly...

C OLUMBUS, Ohio — Police in Ohio say a man accused of striking children in the head with his fist and keys at a Wal-Mart store told them he did it for the thrill. Sixty-eight-year-old Ralph...

Excerpt: Inside The Collapse Wall Street bonuses in the current climate are a "very elegant form of theft" former bond trader Michael Lewis tells Steve Kroft. "60 Minutes," Sunday, March 14 at 7 p.m....