IBT Staff Reporter

Toyota Motor Corp <7203.T> is expected to report a huge drop in quarterly profits on Tuesday hit by tanking Japanese car sales and a firm yen, highlighting its damaging exposure to the loss-making export business.

Gerson Lehrman Group, the largest so-called expert network firm, has been hit by a series of top-level executive departures in recent weeks, according to three sources familiar with the company.

Regulators began their most forceful attempt yet to clamp down on bank bonuses since the 2007-2009 financial crisis, and warned firms they would seek to counter attempts to circumvent the reforms.

The chief executives of 14 defense companies urged Congress on Monday to pass a defense spending bill for fiscal 2011 instead of extending the current stopgap measure that keeps funding at 2010 levels.

Hyundai Motor Co <005380.KS> plans to hold the line on adding U.S. dealers even as it eyes a roughly 10 percent jump in sales this year, executives said on Monday.

Google Inc executive Wael Ghonim, who went missing in Cairo, has been released and is headed home, a family member told Reuters on Monday.

Consumer credit surged in December as shoppers boosted their credit-card debt for the first time in more than two years, supporting views economic activity was gathering momentum.

Intel Corp resumed shipments of a flawed chipset for use with its new cutting-edge processors, responding to demands from PC makers who will use the chips selectively.

Former Morgan Stanley Smith Barney financial adviser Alan Harter has launched a new firm, Pactolus Private Wealth Management, targeting families and people with at least $25 million to invest.

Regulators began their most forceful attempt yet to clamp down on bank bonuses since the 2007-2009 financial crisis, and warned firms they would seek to counter attempts to circumvent the reforms.

Gold prices inched up on Monday, underpinned by inflation concerns, but a more optimistic economic outlook and worries about interest rate hikes kept bullion from rising further.

Oscar organizers rolled out the digital red carpet on Monday, unveiling their slogan you're invited for the upcoming film honors, detailing a Web-friendly show and inviting the nominees' mothers to tweet on Hollywood's big night.

United Continental Holdings on Monday said it would cut up to 500 jobs at the Houston headquarters of Continental Airlines, which merged last year with United Airlines.

Intel Corp said it expects to begin shipping new chipsets sooner than expected in mid-February for use with its Sandy Bridge processors following a design defect found last month.

Texas Instruments announced plans for a chip on Monday that it said will give users more versatility in how they use their cellphones, helping it to compete better with rivals including Qualcomm Inc and Nvidia.

It's the $1.2 billion question: What is Hewlett-Packard's new Palm unit cooking up for tablet computers?

Ensco Plc plans to buy rival Pride International Inc for about $7.3 billion in a deal that would create the world's second-largest offshore oil and gas driller.

Regulators on Monday are expected to make their most forceful attempt yet to clamp down bank bonuses since the 2007-2009 financial crisis, but the proposals pale in comparison to harsher restrictions already set in Europe.

The United States and Brazil will pressure countries that keep their currencies undervalued, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Monday, reinforcing an emerging alliance between the Western Hemisphere's two biggest economies at the expense of China.

U.S. regulators on Monday made their most forceful attempt yet to clamp down bank bonuses since the 2007-2009 financial crisis, but the proposals pale in comparison to harsher restrictions already set in Europe.

The U.S. government will have to reduce its competitive role in the mortgage market to entice private investors to return, even if it means higher borrowing costs in the transition, the chief executive officer of Redwood Trust said on Monday.

Google Inc executive Wael Ghonim, who went missing in Cairo, has been released and is on his way home, a family member told Reuters on Monday.

Even as results of a landmark vote show the people of Southern Sudan have decided to form a new nation and international leaders congratulate them, recent reported violent incidents in the North and South indicate that peace in the embattled nation is fragile.

Alcatel-Lucent showed off technology on Monday that shrinks mobile phone base stations to barely bigger than a golf ball.

A sense of urgency came across Lady Gaga Monday as she announced she will release her new single Born This Way two days before scheduled.

Gawker Media Company has changed up its look on all of its sites and thus far, the people are not pleased.

Shares in Nokia Oyj, the word's largest cellphone maker, jumped to a four-month high as a delayed top of the range model finally started deliveries and hopes grew for a strategy revamp due later this week.

NASA released the first ever 360 degree image of the sun in a video over the weekend and says it could help with weather forecasts.

It's official: the Kyocera Echo is coming to Sprint.