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The Dow and S&P 500 stock indexes rose on Monday, extending their recovery from 12-year lows reached this month, as investors became more hopeful that some stabilization may be returning to the banking sector.

The Dow and S&P 500 stock indexes rose on Monday, extending their recovery from 12-year lows reached this month, as investors became more hopeful that some stabilization may be returning to the banking sector.

Stocks on Monday were set to extend their recovery from 12-year lows reached earlier this month after Britain's Barclays became the latest bank to buoy hopes that some stabilization may be returning in banking.

Stock futures rose on Monday, putting Wall Street on course to extend its recovery from 12-year lows reached earlier this month, after Britain's Barclays became the latest bank to buoy hopes that some stabilization may be returning in banking.

Switzerland's UBS, the world's largest wealth management company in terms of assets, proposed three new candidates to its board of directors on Monday.

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Australia on Monday extended its review of Chinese aluminum maker Chinalco's $19.5 billion investment in global miner Rio Tinto, as major Rio shareholders voiced growing concern over the deal.

German Economy Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said on Sunday he hoped General Motors and the U.S. government would help answer remaining questions on a plan to save German unit Opel.

WASHINGTON - U.S. business leaders urged lawmakers on Thursday to act quickly on healthcare reform, saying American companies were losing out to other countries with cheaper healthcare and healthier workers.

The Treasury will offer more details in the coming week about how proposed public-private partnerships to take bad assets off banks' books will work, a senior department official said on Saturday.

More spending will give only a brief sugar high if G20 nations fail to clean up their banks, the World Bank said on Friday as economic powers struggled to agree a response to the worst downturn in decades.

Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg offered to relax strict bank secrecy in some tax evasion cases on Friday in a response to a global crackdown on tax havens that is rattling the offshore banking industry.

Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg offered to relax strict bank secrecy in some tax evasion cases on Friday in a response to a global crackdown on tax havens that is rattling the offshore banking industry.

Britain's main suspect in the London murder of dissident Alexander Litvinenko is likely to run for mayor in the Russian city hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics, according to an announcement by his party on Friday.

Japan joined the U.S. push for more government spending to fight the economic crisis on Friday but G20 unity looked seriously compromised after Paris accused Washington of disregarding the urgent need for tough market regulation.

U.S. biofuel producers said the EU's anti-dumping tariffs will kill their exports of the alternative motor fuel into Europe and force them to seek domestic and other global customers.

China said it was ready to pump more money into its economy and saw a pick-up in trade, offering another glimmer of hope for the battered global economy as signs that big U.S. banks may be turning around lifted world stocks.

U.S. business leaders urged lawmakers on Thursday to act quickly on healthcare reform, saying American companies were losing out to other countries with cheaper healthcare and healthier workers.

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The economic crisis threatening to topple global automakers rocked two of Europe's biggest on Thursday as BMW posted a surprise fourth-quarter operating loss and Volkswagen warned of worse ahead.

Japanese shares fell more than 2 percent on Thursday and other Asian markets were on the defensive as confidence in a rally this week proved fleeting in light of a shaky global economy and financial system.