Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. was the leader of the pack, with a cool $25 billion involved in its initial public offering.
The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed lower in the final day of 2014 trading, but they all posted gains for the year.
A JPMorgan executive suggested hacking Iran from an offshore location, Bloomberg News reported.
The European Commission also has been investigating allegations that BP manipulated oil and biofuel prices.
Political turmoil in Greece, among other causes, knocked down the blue-chip index of U.S. stocks.
Despite two disasters this year that slammed Malaysia Airlines shares, they rebounded. Could AirAsia shares do likewise?
Japanese stocks turned negative on Monday after the health ministry announced a suspected case of the deadly Ebola virus, spooking investors.
Russia's ruble rose on Friday to its strongest levels in more than three weeks in a sharp rebound from its recent all-time lows.
The deal with Sumitomo Mitsui will include the transfer of accounts worth about $21 billion.
The Dow closed at a new all-time record Wednesday for the 37th time this year as Santa Claus came to town.
The former New Jersey governor's bankrupt firm has been slapped with $1.2 billion in restitution and a $100 million penalty.
Russia will take on credit risk for firms, whose foreign debt obligations have shot up in ruble terms because of the currency's sharp slide.
RBS launched an internal review into its FX activities after it was one of six banks fined a combined $4.3 billion last month.
Two-factor authentication is easy to set up, but one of the largest banking institutions in the world simply never did it.
Fresh economic data on the strengthening U.S. economy sent the blue-chip index into the stratosphere on Tuesday.
China's private sector suitors are set to drive another strong year of Asian mergers and acquisitions in 2015.
UK's Financial Reporting Council has launched an inquiry into PwC over its auditing of Tesco's 2012, 2013 and 2014 accounts.
The announcement by the Chinese securities regulator comes just days after it warned investors against investing irrationally.
Find out whether or not you may have been a victim of the Staples credit card data breach that the company confirmed Friday.
Staples Inc. confirmed Friday that more than 1 million credit cards may have been compromised in a massive data breach.
Arvind Subramanian said on Friday that India should increase public spending to boost economic growth in the medium term.
Swiss National Bank announced it would impose an interest rate of -0.25 percent on the portion of so-called "sight deposits."
Asian shares enjoyed their best day in 15 months on Friday after Wall Street boasted its biggest two-day advance since late 2011.
The Dow skyrocketed 400 points Thursday, and the S&P 500 jumped more than 2 percent, in their biggest one-day gains this year.
For the first time in decades, Switzerland will charge commercial banks to park money.
The French parliament approved President Francois Hollande’s revised 2015 deficit-cutting budget on Thursday.
The Fed has held benchmark overnight rates near zero since December 2008.
Business sentiment among Asia's top companies rebounded in the fourth quarter to the second-highest level in almost three years.
The Blue Chip Dow rebounded Tuesday after a surprise dividend hike from Boeing cut early losses following Russia's surprise interest rate hike.
The fall in inflation has given some respite to British households and average earnings rose by more than prices in September.