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Toyota Motor Corp <7203.T> is expected to report a huge drop in quarterly profits on Tuesday hit by tanking Japanese car sales and a firm yen, highlighting its damaging exposure to the loss-making export business.

Toyota Motor Corp <7203.T> is expected to report a huge drop in quarterly profits on Tuesday hit by tanking Japanese car sales and a firm yen, highlighting its damaging exposure to the loss-making export business.

Regulators on Monday are expected to make their most forceful attempt yet to clamp down bank bonuses since the 2007-2009 financial crisis, but the proposals pale in comparison to harsher restrictions already set in Europe.

The United States and Brazil will pressure countries that keep their currencies undervalued, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Monday, reinforcing an emerging alliance between the Western Hemisphere's two biggest economies at the expense of China.

U.S. regulators on Monday made their most forceful attempt yet to clamp down bank bonuses since the 2007-2009 financial crisis, but the proposals pale in comparison to harsher restrictions already set in Europe.

China MediaExpress Inc on Monday termed the research reports calling the company's financial results into question as misleading, and said its financial statements are backed by well known auditors.

A U.S. trade panel on Monday approved combined final duties ranging up to nearly 450 percent on steel drill pipe from China used in oil production.

Bank of China Ltd and four other major state lenders will end preferential mortgage rates for first-time homebuyers in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen after the Lunar New Year holiday, a local newspaper said.

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U.S. regulators on Monday are expected to make their most forceful attempt yet to clamp down bank bonuses since the 2007-2009 financial crisis, but the proposals pale in comparison to harsher restrictions already set in Europe.

Google’s marketing executive in Egypt, Wael Ghonim, has been released by authorities according to several news reports.

China Huadian Corp, one of the country's five major state-run power generation groups, said it will speed up the public listing of its new energy unit this year, the China Daily reported, citing General Manager Yun Gongmin.

Physical delivery times for wholesale Silver Bars in London – heart of the world's physical bullion markets – have improved. But major dealers continue to offer three-day settlement or longer, compared with the more normal two-day terms.

Gold held near $1,350 an ounce on Monday after the metal's first weekly rise this year supported investor confidence in the metal, though a more optimistic view of the global economic outlook is continuing to weigh on prices.

After the Great Recession, Europe has embarked on a Great Regression. Wages, pensions, unemployment insurance, welfare benefits and collective bargaining are under attack in many areas as governments struggle

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Glu Mobile, Orexigen Therapeutics, Veeco Instruments, Progenics Pharmaceuticals, and InterDigital. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Yongye International, Kandi Technologies, China Agritech, and Cognizant Technology Solutions.

A mutiny by Sudanese troops refusing to leave the south ahead of its expected independence has spread through towns in an oil-producing state, with at least 50 people killed in the past four days, officials said.

Asian stocks pushed toward a near three-year peak on Monday as the U.S. job market showed further signs of recovery, highlighting a brighter economic outlook, while the dollar eased against a basket of currencies.

Asian stocks clung to early gains on Monday as the U.S. job market showed further signs of recovery, highlighting a brighter outlook for its economy, while the dollar firmed against a basket of other major currencies.

Al Gore's Generation Investment Management LLP is starting a $500 million fund to invest in Asian stocks, Bloomberg reported on Sunday.

For a Federal Reserve chairman who is worried about politics interfering with monetary policy, Ben Bernanke is taking on some awfully heated political topics.