INVESTMENT

The FBI has released a series of documents, photos and videos detailing the actions of Anna Chapman and other members of a Russian spy ring apparently secretly exchanging information and money.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Monday that a proposal to bring an applied sciences university to the city continues to move forward. Under Applied Sciences NYC, dubbed one of the most exciting projects the city has undertaken in the past decade by U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer, seven proposals are under consideration for the groundbreaking program. The winner will be awarded free city land and up to $100 million in city capital funding in exchange for constructing a ma...

Allstate Corp posted a sharply smaller profit for the third quarter, as the largest publicly traded home and auto insurer in the United States lost more than $1 billion due to natural disasters.

Virginia-based AvalonBay, the second-largest real estate investment trust, reported a 27 percent increase in funds from operations to $107.6 million, or $1.17 per share, up from $84.5 million, or 98 centers per share, in 2010.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has purchased a property at 327 East 64th Street in Manhattan from the car rental company Hertz Corporation for $19.05 million, according to city records.

The Royal Canadian Mint will begin offering exchange-traded receipts, a way to let investors own and trade gold bullion, late next month in an initiative expected to raise about $250 Canadian.

Nigeria's Central Bank Governor Lamido Sanusi said on Monday the bank would review its target band for the naira in the next few days, and depending on where the exchange rate settles may move its midpoint to 155/156 to the dollar, compared to its current 150.

Colorado-based UDR Inc. reported third quarter funds from operations of nearly $73 million, or 32 cents per diluted share, up from $46.9 million, or 27 cents per diluted share, in the third quarter of 2010. UDR had a loss of 7 cents per share, down from a loss of 16 cents per share in 2010.

The Suck for Luck sweepstakes continued on Sunday as the NFL's most pitiful teams found new ways to lose in order to improve their chances to draft Stanford star Andrew Luck.

The operator of Canada's largest stock market has thrown its support behind a C$3.8 billion ($3.8 billion) takeover offer from a group of banks and pension funds, embracing the deal four months after a failed attempt to merge with the London Stock Exchange.

Markets have over-interpreted comments by incoming European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi on the bank's readiness to go on buying the bonds of troubled euro zone states, outgoing ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet said.

Investors were so concerned that euro zone leaders would not reach agreement on solving the debt crisis in October that they cut equity holdings to the second lowest level in 12 months, Reuters polls showed on Monday.

Black Friday will be starting earlier this year. Both Macy's and Target have announced that their doors will open at midnight after Thanksgiving. When the clock strikes 12:00 a.m. on Friday Nov. 25, the Black Friday midnight madness will begin.

Qantas Airways planes took back to the friendly skies Monday after an Australian court ruled on a bitter labor dispute that grounded the airline's entire fleet over the weekend.

The Nikkei stock average ended lower on Monday, giving up sharp intraday gains made after Japanese authorities intervened to curb persistent yen strength, as investors locked in profits on concerns the yen won't stay down for long.

The New York Fed suspended MF Global from conducting new business with the central bank on Monday and its shares were suspended, as the troubled brokerage nears a deal on its future.

The China unit of investment bank JP Morgan has won approval to become a trading member of the Shanghai Gold Exchange, the eighth foreign financial institute to obtain such membership, said the exchange on its Web stie (www.sge.com.cn).

Fueled by wider Eurozone summit rally, industry-specific news out of Germany and a trader-driven assessment that share prices might have reached technical bottoms, shares in various solar panel manufacturers surged Thursday and Friday. Disappointing industry developments, the possibility of negative surprises coming out of China, and the increasingly unforgiving economics of the business, however, mean the industry could face a very stormy fourth quarter.

Solar panels have, for good or ill, traveled a familiar but slow technological road. But manufacturing advances, booming investment and falling prices could, after nearly six decades, make solar panels the new normal.

Swiss bank Credit Suisse will announce the loss of another 1,000 jobs when it presents third-quarter results on Tuesday, a Swiss newspaper reported without revealing its sources.

France's opposition Socialists have attacked President Nicolas Sarkozy for seeking Chinese help in solving the euro zone debt crisis.