Uncertainty over Yahoo may have attracted interest from Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies as well as from China’s Alibaba Group and Silver Lake Partners.
Gold prices fell Tuesday, weighed down by panicking investors preparing for the fallout of a Greek sovereign debt default -- damage to European banks and falling business activity on the continent and perhaps the U.S. -- by dumping stocks and abandoning the euro and buying dollars.
Starbucks announced Monday that it was teaming up with Opportunity Finance Network to launch Create Jobs for USA, which will pool donations for Starbucks customers, partners (employees) and concerned citizens into a nationwide fund for community business lending. This follows a trend that other companies, such as McDonald's, have taken to give back to the community while also boosting sales .
Canada wants its central bank governor, Mark Carney, to become head of the Financial Stability Board, the country's finance minister said on Monday days after a highly publicized clash between Carney and one of the world's most powerful bankers.
The advisory board of IMG held a conference call on Friday to discuss what to do about Michael Ovitz's play to take over company management, according to an individual with knowledge of the call.
By accumulating enough shares, stockholders would have the ammunition to force changes to the company's board.
Erin Burnett is not only anticipating the premiere of her CNN show, OutFront, but also her wedding to fiance David Rubulotta.
Flashed on the side of a building here in Shanghai's historic Bund district, an image shows a giant ship named Hony, setting sail from China, traveling past the Statue of Liberty, past Big Ben, and bringing home crates of golden coins.
The Singapore Stock Exchange Ltd is tying up with London's main bourse to make a joint bid for the London Metal Exchange, a source told Reuters on Friday, as the world's largest metal market seeks a suitor in a deal that could be worth 1 billion pounds ($1.57 billion).
New Zealand suffered its second ratings downgrade within hours on Friday as Standard & Poor's cut the country's rating by one notch because of its growing foreign debt, after rival Fitch Ratings' had taken similar action.
stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Thursday, with futures for the S&P 500, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 100 up 0.9 to 1.2 percent.
Interest in the London Metal Exchange as a takeover target has snowballed and the number of suitors has risen to double digits because business is booming with volumes at record levels, its chief executive Martin Abbott said.
It's a U.S. economy in which you take the good news where you can get it, and Wednesday the nation received some: President Barack Obama's $447 billion jobs plan would help avoid a recession by maintaining GDP growth and lowering unemployment, according to a new survey of economists.
Stock trader Alessio Rastani told the BBC, Governments don't rule the world. Goldman Sachs rules the world.
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Health care costs rose sharply this year, further underscoring the problem of uninsured and underinsured Americans, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
The brunt of job cuts will likely occur in Europe and The United States.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc may cut $1.45 billion in expenses by year's end, $250 million more than it indicated in July, in a move that could lead to more job cuts, according to The New York Times.
Who is this Alessio Rastani? The stock trader who told the BBC that Goldman Sachs rules the world and recession is the current cancer.
Stock market trader Alessio Rastani commented on the current economic crisis to the BBC on Monday, saying, Governments don't rule the world but rather Goldman Sachs does and he dreams of another recession.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s board of directors has won the dismissal of a lawsuit seeking to recover billions of dollars of bonus payouts and other compensation awarded for 2009.
A group of five leading emerging economies that has banded together to increase their global clout is again struggling to find common ground.
