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On Tuesday, it was reported that Mohamed El-Ehrian, the chief executive officer of Pacific Investment Management Co., or PIMCO, was being considered for the role of Egypt's Prime Minister. He doesn't want the job, but he does have the qualities that Egypt lacks.

Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) booked a 11 percent drop in its second-quarter earnings as revenue from investment banking and lending businesses declined, the New York investment bank said Tuesday.

Here's a primer on the place of gold in an investment portfolio.

High nominal and real interest rates can be found in the Latin American short-term fixed income markets

Moody's Investors Service is downgrading the credit ratings for 13 Italian banks three days after cutting the Italian government's bond rating.

JPMorgan receives another blow even as it flounders in the midst of a FERC power market manipulation probe and talks with U.S. regulators for its alleged involvement in rigging key benchmark interest rates.

Taking inspiration from global regulatory investigations into the interest rate manipulation, the U.S. is now building strong evidence of criminal wrongdoings against big banks and individuals ensnared in the heart of the scam.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has yet to invite former Alaskan governor and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to the 2012 Republican National Convention, which has some Tea Party activists, who aren't too enthusiastic about him anyway, concerned

Up until now, Obama has generally enjoyed broad popularity in India – a country he has long been linked to, both personally and professionally.

The annual Comic Con festival is usually full of surprises for fans of graphic novels, superheroes, video games and any other nerdy niche. Players of the Metal Gear Solid franchise thought they were in for a surprise when a supposed leaked image revealed the alleged logo and taglines for the game's fifth installment. However, Konami has denied that Metal Gear Solid 5 was revealed at Comic Con this weekend, Kotaku reports.

Not much is clear about Tony Blair's new role in South Sudan: Is it humanitarian or an investment? Can he change negative policies or will be grow Juba's stalled economy?

The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is expected to report stronger second-quarter profit as the world's largest soft-drink maker tries to offset higher commodity prices and currency headwinds by expanding aggressively into key international markets.

President Obama's weekend statement on India , raising concerns over the invest climate in the country, has evoked sharp criticisms making it further hard for the Indian Prime Minister to go ahead with reforms.

Introducing Myanmar, the world's next big thing that's struggling to figure out what exactly that means.

China's aging and diminishing population is not a surprise, but experts lament that little is being done to prepare society for its effects.

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who recently took over the charge of the Finance Ministry, has set up an expert committee to review and finalize the controversial General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR), which the foreign investors say are not investor-friendly.

China's report Friday that its economic activity grew in the second quarter much as expected reinforced expectations that the growth rate in the world's second-biggest economy will increase later this year.

Infosys Ltd, BT Group, AFLAC, Freeport-McMoRan, Kinder Morgan, Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Logitech International and Two Harbors Investment Corp. are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Friday.

India's industrial output picked up more than expected in May, bolstering the case for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to keep interest rates high at its next policy meeting as a slow start to the monsoon puts pressure on inflation, especially food prices.

China's gross domestic product growth slowed down in the second quarter to the lowest rate in three years, due to soft global demand official data released Friday show.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), the world's biggest software company, is in seeking to divest its remaining investment in MSNBC.com, the No. 4 U.S. news website.