The head of the eurozone's bailout fund is beginning attempts to persuade China to invest in a scheme to help rescue member countries facing debt crises while Beijing has made it clear that it will demand strong guarantees on the safety of any contribution it might make.
Asian stocks headed for their best week in nearly three years after a long-awaited plan to resolve the European debt crisis sparked a huge relief rally in riskier assets, while the euro took a breather after jumping to a seven-week high.
Spot gold held steady Friday, on course for its biggest weekly rise in 33 months, after the euro zone's last-minute deal on containing the debt crisis cheered investors, but a rebound in the dollar may weigh on prices.
Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc's third-quarter revenue rose at a slower pace than Wall Street estimates as it shipped fewer smartphones than expected.
Relativity Media on Thursday unveiled the first film to emerge from the Chinese co-production/distribution deal it jointly announced over the summer.
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Now that most U.S. technology companies have reported quarterly results, the upshot is that they largely dodged any bullets from the European economic crisis.
IBM has announced that, for the first time in its history, it will have a woman, Virginia Ginni Rometty, run the company.
The international black market organ trade is a $75 million per year industry.
China reportedly has almost 500 million registered Web users.
Chemical giant BASF's earnings slipped 4.3 percent in the third quarter on economic uncertainty and cautious spending among its customers.
EUR/USD may be at an extreme valuation, which may suggest a sell signal for the pair, according to a model produced from Deutsche Bank FX.
California political leaders chose a site near the headquarters of Solyndra to kick off hearings on how the state's growing cleantech industry can proceed in the wake of that solar company's dramatic collapse.
Verizon Wireless Thursday started accepting pre-order for Motorola Droid RAZR. Consumers will start getting the phone by the second week of November.
China welcomed on Thursday the consensus reached at the European Union's summit to tackle the euro zone debt crisis and supported measures taken by the bloc that could help the region's recovery.
U.S. patent records point to a possible conflict of interest in an Olympus investment in a cookware company, raising more questions for investors demanding a full explanation from the Japanese company of acquisitions that made heavy losses.
Regulators subpoenaed Avon Products Inc over its contact with analysts, and the company is under a formal investigation over whether it failed to comply with bribery laws in China and elsewhere.
The late-night rescue package agreed by euro zone leaders to cool their dangerous debt crisis will at least allow investors to look at other things for a while.
Euro zone leaders are as far as ever from finding a lasting solution to the bloc's underlying problem of economic divergence, despite their latest progress in managing the symptoms of its debt crisis.
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Euro zone leaders are as far as ever from finding a lasting solution to the bloc's underlying problem of economic divergence, despite their latest progress in managing the symptoms of its debt crisis.
Euro zone leaders struck a last-minute deal to limit the damage from the currency bloc's debt crisis early on Thursday but are still far from finalizing plans to slash Greece's debt burden and strengthen their rescue fund.
