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Within weeks of taking office, U.S. President Barack Obama rode to the rescue of homeowners resigned to financial ruin.

The U.S. Senate Finance Committee will vote on Tuesday on a bill to reform the U.S. healthcare system, President Barack Obama's main domestic objective.

* U.S. stock index futures rose slightly on Tuesday as investors awaited earning reports from Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) and Intel Corp (INTC.O).

Apple iPhone market share is going nowhere but up, both in the US and international market, according to a new report.

Gains in cash crudes due to economic factors early in the week are expected to be limited by continuing lower demand from refiners, who are still contending with reduced demand and seeing a weak outlook for the coming year.

Users of Microsoft Corp's Sidekick mobile phone may have permanently lost data such as contacts, photos and calendar entries due to the failure of a Microsoft server computer.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Monday as a softer dollar helped boost commodity prices and, potentially, earnings of export oriented U.S. companies.

U.S. stock index futures climbed on Monday as a softer dollar helped boost commodity prices and, potentially, earnings of export oriented U.S. companies.

Delaware judges will need to find a way to avoid ruling in corporate cases involving government-controlled companies like American International Group Inc if they are to protect the state's corporate law, a law professor said on Friday.

The American whiskey market may be back on a roll. The industry which produces Jack Daniel's and Jim Beam is seeing sales flatten in its domestic market but overseas business is booming and driving overall growth.

Few U.S. small businesses have adopted social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter for business uses, according to research released on Thursday.

Home buyers in much of the United States paid thousands of dollars below the asking price, but had slightly less negotiating power in August than in July, real estate website Zillow.com said on Thursday.

Higher credit costs are likely to weigh on earnings for the U.S. mid-cap banks in the third quarter, but expectations appear fairly realistic going into the period, Morgan Stanley said.

Every 13 seconds in America, there is another foreclosure filing. That's the rhythm of a crisis that threatens to choke off hopes for a recovery in the U.S. housing market as it destroys hundreds of billions of dollars in property values a year.

You may have heard the oft-quoted statistic that autism affects 1 in 150 US children. Turns out it's more like 1 in 91 -- and about 1 in 58 boys, according to new figures released Sunday.

Britain's The Independent newspaper on Tuesday reported that Gulf Arab states were in secret talks with Russia, China, Japan and France to replace the U.S. dollar with a basket of currencies in the trading of oil.

The new Pakistani Taliban chief released a new video clip Sunday on Pakistani television, vowing to retaliate against the U.S. and Pakistan.

A U.S.-led group has entered the race to buy Ford Motor Co's Volvo cars unit, the Financial Times reported, in a challenge to China's Geely Automotive which last month confirmed its interest in the loss-making Swedish carmaker.

China Real Estate Information Corp, a provider of real estate information and consulting services, is planning to raise up to $248 million in a U.S.-listed initial public offering set for Oct 16.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher start on Monday to snap a four-day losing streak. The futures for the Dow Jones industrial average DJc1, the S&P 500 SPc1 and the Nasdaq Composite NDc1 were up 0.5-0.6 percent at 0822 GMT.

Dutch maker of photocopier and printing systems Oce NV posted a third-quarter loss and sharply declining revenues due to weak European markets, but said it saw early signs of bottoming out in some U.S. markets.