Automaker Honda unveiled its completely redesigned fourth-generation 2012 CR-V at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The new CR-V will go on-sale at Honda dealerships nationwide Dec. 15.
Suzuki Motor Corp said on Friday that it is planning to buy back up to 20 percent of its own shares held by Volkswagen.
Shares in Swiss bank UBS rose on Friday as investors welcomed its pledge to start paying dividends again, though its plans to trim its scandal-hit investment bank failed to go as far as some had hoped.
A San Jose, California, man faces charges of tax evasion after failing to report $1.3 million in interest income from HSBC Holdings Plc's India unit, U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday.
Anglo-Dutch publishing and events group Reed Elsevier Plc/NV posted a 1 percent rise in underlying sales for the first nine months of the year and said macroeconomic uncertainty had had only a marginal effect on its results.
Dole Food narrowed its third-quarter loss year-over-year as stronger revenues offset a challenging period seen in its European market.
Honda Motor Co's Canadian unit will start manufacturing its CR-V compact sport-utility vehicle in Canada early next year, Japan's No. 3 automaker said on Thursday.
California-based electric motorcycle maker Zero Motorcycles recently unveiled their 2012 line of bikes, boasting five models, a new powertrain and a battery pack that they claim will last the life of the bike.
General Electric Co plans to hire about 400 people to work in a new software development center it intends to open in San Ramon, California, next year, the largest U.S. conglomerate said on Thursday.
No one has made more of a splash than Ford--more specifically the 2013 Ford Mustang--at the 2011 L.A. Auto Show.
After several days of loaded proclamations, a deal may be in the offering between ExxonMobil, the Kurdish regional government, and Iraq's central government.
Forest City Ratner revealed on Thursday renderings of a 32-story residential tower that will abut the Barclays Arena at Atlantic Yards.
Chevron Brazil announced Thursday the company is actively cementing an appraisal well responsible for causing a relatively small oil leak.
Verizon and unions representing landline employees are working through issues such as job security, healthcare and retirement benefits.
Standard Bank Group is now financing small and medium-sized (SME) enterprises, tapping into a lucrative segment that was previously ignored by mainstream lenders but is increasingly on the agenda for most African governments.
Nigeria said on Thursday it was fining airlines British Airways and Virgin Atlantic a total of $235 million, as an ongoing row between Britain and Africa's most populous nation over landing slots and ticket prices escalates.
Netflix said Thursday it would refuse to join Wal-Mart in the settlement of a class-action lawsuit involving more than 25 million current and former Netflix subscribers.
Citibank has sold servicing rights for a $2.6 billion real estate loan portfolio to CWCapital LLC, the companies announced on Wednesday.
Canada will probe allegations of widespread sexual harassment at the storied Royal Canadian Mounted Police, looking into the latest in a string of problems that have tarnished the reputation of the national force.
Delinquent U.S. mortgage payments fell to 7.99 percent in the third quarter, down from 9.1 percent from a year earlier, according to the Mortgage Bankers Assocation.
Citigroup analysts believe that Amazon will launch its own smartphone in the fourth quarter of 2012.
Warner Bros. signed a major film distribution agreement with LOVEFiLM, a major competitor to Netflix, who signed an agreement with Lionsgate earlier this week.
Ford's new Shelby GT500 Mustang has surpassed all expectations, bringing with it a brand new supercharged 5.8-liter V8 engine that generates no less than 650 horsepower. The 2013 Shelby GT500 is expected to have a top speed of over 200 MPH.
The British government has agreed to sell Northern Rock, the failed mortgage lender it nationalized in 2008, to Virgin Money, the banking arm of Richard Branson's Virgin empire.
The former CEO of Olympus Corp, whose suspicions over dubious accounting triggered a scandal at the camera and medical equipment maker, will return to Japan next week to meet with police and authorities investigating the case.
Carrefour, the world's second-biggest retailer, must slash prices, build more convenience stores and attract online shoppers as dire economic times make the current CEO's hypermarket revival plan increasingly obsolete.
Journalist Malcolm Gladwell told The Atlantic Wire on Wednesday that although Bank of America tapped him to speak at events focusing on small businesses over the past few weeks, he had no idea the corporation crowed about the arrangement in a press release.
An Illinois judge set the bond at $40,000 for an algebra teacher at a Christian school who admitted to investigators that he masturbated behind a lectern Friday during class, WWLS-TV reported Wednesday. Paul LaDuke, a 75-year-old minister in charge of a class full of minors, confessed that until one of them caught him in the act, he would put an apron on and masturbate while he thought about girls in the room for 10 years.
Threats of money problems continue to hang over U.S. local governments, but most cities and counties will still be able to pay their debts in the near future, Janney Capital Markets said in a special report on Wednesday.
The Ford Mustang's most recent generation of models has undergone many changes throughout the years, but probably none like the changes among the 2013 models seen at the Los Angeles Auto Show Wednesday.
