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Greece faces severe restrictions on its sovereignty and must privatize state assets on a scale similar to the sell off of East German firms in the 1990s after communism fell, Eurogroup chairman Jean-Claude Juncker said.
Switzerland's UBS is still facing difficult market conditions after a tough second quarter and is reviewing its mid-term goals, the bank's chairman was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s account in Google’s new Social Networking site, Google+ is not a secret any more. Mark Zuckerberg was along with the crowd to take a pie from Google’s success, whose “insane demand” of Google’s social networking site urged Google to hold the Google+ invites in suspension.
Euro zone finance ministers agreed on Saturday to disburse a further 12 billion euros ($17.4 billion) to Greece and said the details of a second aid package for Athens would be finalised by mid-September.
SAO PAULO Grupo Pao de Acucar Chairman Abilio Diniz said he did not violate his partnership with France's Casino by negotiating a merger with their rival Carrefour in Brazil without informing his partner, the weekly magazine Veja said on Saturday.
Euro zone finance ministers will approve the next tranche of emergency aid for Greece on Saturday and discuss a second three-year financing plan for Athens on July 11, euro zone officials said.
The German government has been making preparations for the unlikely event that Greece defaults even though it does not expect such an event, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said in an interview in Der Spiegel.
China's IPO market slowed by a fifth in the first half of 2011 amid a lack of mega deals that hit the market the year before, with fundraisings dominated by small businesses, a trend that analysts said could last for a few more months.
Web hosting company The Go Daddy Group Inc agreed to be bought by a private equity consortium led by KKR and Silver Lake for $2.25 billion, including debt, people close to the situation said on Friday.
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest on Friday after prosecutors said the hotel maid who accused him of attempted rape lied to a grand jury and made other false statements.
She lied about being gang-raped in her home country. She cheated on her taxes. And she changed details of her story about being sexually assaulted by a man once seen as the next president of France.
President Barack Obama moved to fill two key posts in the ranks of financial regulators as officials work to complete new rules required by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street oversight law.
A pullback could be on the table next week for stocks after their best weekly performance in two years, especially if a raft of data headlined by the June jobs report doesn't bolster the argument of a strengthening economy.
Web hosting company Go Daddy Group Inc announced on Friday it is being bought by a private equity consortium led by KKR and Silver Lake.
How much longer can Legg Mason Inc afford to back Bill Miller, the star investor whose onetime Midas touch has lost its luster?
New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has issued subpoenas seeking new depositions from Bank of America's chief executive and other current and former executives, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the situation.
Zynga Inc, developer of popular Facebook games such as FarmVille and Mafia Wars, could be the best proxy for investing in Facebook until the world's largest social network goes public itself.
Facebook Inc is on course to generate $1 billion in revenue this year from social gaming, according to Kevin Ryan, a leading Internet entrepreneur and former chief executive of online advertising giant DoubleClick.
Google Inc's Chrome Web browser has grabbed more than 20 percent of global market share, while Microsoft Corp's long-time leader Internet Explorer has slipped below 50 percent, according to Internet statistics firm StatCounter.
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest without bail on Friday as prosecutors investigated questions about the credibility of the woman he is charged with trying to rape.
Google Inc's Chrome Web browser has grabbed more than 20 percent of global market share, while Microsoft Corp's long-time leader Internet Explorer has slipped below 50 percent, according to Internet statistics firm StatCounter.
U.S. stocks started July with a bang on Friday with Wall Street scoring its best week in two years, helped by strong manufacturing data that eased concerns about slowing growth.
The auto industry sputtered to its second consecutive month of weaker-than-expected U.S. sales in June, marked by disappointing results from General Motors Co, Ford Motor Co and the big Japanese automakers, as the weak economy and tight supply of cars left buyers wary.
Venture-backed IPOs saw their strongest quarter since 2000 with offerings valued at $5.5 billion coming to the market in the second quarter of 2011, according to an exit poll by Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association .
Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger on Friday stuck by Chinese auto maker BYD <1211.HK>, which has become one of Berkshire's most controversial investments amid poor performance and revelations about its business practices.
Zynga Inc filed paperwork on Friday for an initial public offering, the latest in a series of hot social media companies to seek capital in the U.S. public markets.
International banks and insurers attempted to paper over major cracks in a proposed Greek debt rollover on Friday, saying there was broad support to reinvest in the country.
Stocks started July with a bang on Friday with Wall Street scoring its best week in two years on strong manufacturing data that eased concerns about slowing growth.
On a recent morning at Master Lock's 90-year-old factory in Milwaukee, a cluster of machinery was whirring, every 2 seconds spitting out one of the combination locks used by American high schoolers as the company readied for the back-to-school rush.
