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Wall Street may find it hard to rally this week as Greece's new and untested coalition begins the process of ratifying a 130 billion-euro lifeline and the fate of Italy's government hangs by a thread.

A 5.6-magnitude earthquake rocked Oklahoma on Saturday continuing into the weekend, bringing countless aftershocks in what was the strongest quake ever according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

After another week of confusion and turmoil in Europe, investors are ditching whatever hopes they once had for a conclusive solution to the debt crisis.

Countries in the Eurozone will find it increasingly unattractive to stay in the single currency, if there is a German-led fiscal integration, the chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management said in a Sunday Telegraph interview.

Swiss private bank Julius Baer has raised its bid for unlisted Rabobank's stake in Swiss bank Sarasin and is now making an all cash offer, a newspaper reported on Sunday, citing sources close to the matter.

A magnitude-5.6 earthquake struck in Oklahoma late Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, toppling a chimney, damaging buildings, and sending a boulder the size of a sport-utility vehicle onto a rural road.

English Premier League heavyweights, Arsenal, are being linked to Italian Serie A club AC Milan's Brazilian targetman, Alexandre Pato. Pato, who could make the move to London in January, is believed to be looking to move on from the San Siro.

According to authorities, the fourth in a series of earthquakes hit central Oklahoma, late on Saturday night.

In a rundown patch of Detroit, enclosed by a cyclone fence and barbed wire, stands an unremarkable warehouse that investment bank Goldman Sachs has transformed into a money-making machine.

t the closing of the deal, Anglo-American will have an 85 percent in stake in De Beers, the largest diamond distributor in the world.

U.S. stock investors have had to take their own self-help course on living with uncertainty due to Europe's crisis, and they may need to draw on that next week because it is completely unclear when the next upheaval will come.

McDonald's limited-time reintroduction of the McRib has already led to examination of some of the item's questionable ingredients. Now, one of the prime companies from which McDonald's gets its main ingredient for the sandwich -- pork -- is the target of an SEC complaint.

Keith Clinkscales, a former senior vice president at ESPN, is denying allegations that he masturbated next to ESPN correspondent Erin Andrews on a plane. Clinkscales' lawyer, Judd Burstein, filed a lawsuit against Joan Lynch, the former colleague of Clinkscales' who supposedly leaked the story to Deadspin, according to the Huffington Post.

If you’d told me 5 months ago that I would spend a lot of 2011 studying accounting, talking to businesses and saying bad things about a company that everyone once loved, I never would have believed you.

Groupon Inc raised $700 million after increasing the size of its initial public offering, becoming the largest IPO by a U.S. Internet company since Google Inc raised $1.7 billion in 2004.

Chinese luxury home buyers are leading a legion of cash-rich non-UK investors in search of upmarket London homes, with demand driven by currency exchange rates that produce discounts of up to a quarter on purchase prices, research shows.

Wedbush Securities downgraded its rating on shares of Echelon Corp. (NASDAQ: ELON) to neutral from outperform and lowered its price target to $7 from $16, as Duke contract loss lowering visibility.

Agency releases its final drafted study plan. Final report will be published three years from now.

Hewlett-Packard announced today that it was getting back into the tablet business with the launch of the Slate 2, a Windows 7-based device geared specifically towards enterprise users, with its expanded touch capabilities enhanced multitasking performance and embedded security. Pricing for the Slate 2 starts at $699, with the tablet expected to be available worldwide later this month.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Openwave Systems, EV Energy Partners, AMAG Pharmaceuticals, ARM Holdings, and VIVUS. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Central European Distribution, Seattle Genetics, A123 Systems, Skyworks Solutions, and Fushi Copperweld.

Herman Cain is right that once he got to the top, somebody let all the dogs out, and the media is working itself into a frenzy over the sexual harassment allegations, dogging the Republican presidential candidate who has never before held elected office about the story, trying to pin down what did or did not happen.