MARKETS / FINANCE

The attackers used prepaid credit cards to finance much of the assault.

The pipeline would have funneled natural gas to Europe via Turkey.

A slow recovery in the global economy as well as weak domestic and foreign demand for Chinese goods hurt trade.

The $109 billion conglomerate is turning to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to support its ambition to become one of the world's most valued businesses.

The credit rating agency's move comes amid growing uncertainty over whether the U.S. Federal Reserve will prop them up in a crisis.

OPEC is not expected to agree to production cuts that would boost prices when it meets starting Friday.

The Dow and S&P 500 were under pressure after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen suggested the U.S. central bank may be ready to raise rates.

The Federal Reserve chair said U.S. economic headwinds should ease next year, but the Fed will keep interest rates below historic levels for a while.

KKR & Co., Thoma Bravo and Vista Equity Partners Management are competing for $4 billion worth of Dell Inc.'s assets, people familiar with the matter said.

The power authority PREPA has reached a tentative debt restructuring deal with bond insurers, say sources familiar with the matter.

The mutual fund company quietly reversed its recent markdowns of Dropbox and Snapchat, demonstrating the topsy-turvy nature of the startup market.

Figures from the European Union showed that unemployment fell to 10.7 percent in October -- its lowest since January 2012.

Politicians, labor representatives and other leaders were set to gather in Washington Wednesday to demand Congress take action on Puerto Rico's debt crisis.

An official survey showed a further fall in manufacturing activity, though a private survey showed smaller companies picking up, and services growing.

In a widely expected move, the banks kept their interest rates unchanged ahead of an impending rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve later this month.

Weed killers known as dinitroanilines will be sold to privately held Gowan Company. Dow's farm chemicals and seeds unit has seen sales fall for nearly a year.

China will release its official manufacturing PMI for November, while the private Markit/Caixin version is also due later Tuesday.

The combined company will operate about 3,500 stores in 48 states and expects annual cost savings of about $40 million by the third year.

The investment bank is gearing up to fire as many as one quarter of the employees in its flagging fixed-income division, Bloomberg reports.

The giant San Francisco bank is under investigation for its 'pressure cooker' sales approach, the Wall Street Journal reports.

With world leaders in Paris talking about climate change, a look at whether or not the discussion may meet environmentalists expectation and how investors may profit.

The technology leader announced an initiative by more than 25 private investors to support cutting-edge, zero-carbon energy breakthroughs.

The International Monetary Fund on Monday admitted China's renminbi into its basket of currencies -- but whether China will open its capital markets remains to be seen.

The Federal Reserve adopted rules Monday to limit the central bank's ability to provide emergency lending of the sort that saved AIG in the 2008 crisis.

As investors distance themselves from the turmoil in emerging markets this year, Europe's third-largest publicly traded money manager asked shareholders to wait out the "tough times."

Retail trends have been shifting in the U.S. recently and as Cyber Monday deals heat up, more people are considering experiential gifts, like fine dining.

A diamond ring on the ring finger of a woman, who looked like Seacrest's rumored girlfriend, sparked engagement rumors.

Industrial output rose for the second consecutive month while monthly retail sales in the island nation showed a mild uptick.

Market sentiment remained shaky due to the resumption of IPOs in China, renewed efforts by the securities regulator to clamp down on leveraged buying and concerns about the cooling economy.