Greece to announce bond buyback results Wednesday
Greece will reveal the results of a key debt buyback deal Wednesday, after an extended deadline for private investors to decide whether they will sell ...
Delta buys 49 percent stake in Virgin Atlantic
Delta Air Lines said it will buy almost half of Virgin Atlantic for $360 million as it tries to catch up to rivals in the lucrative New York-to-London ...
HSBC to pay $1.9B to settle money-laundering case
British bank HSBC has agreed to pay $1.9 billion to settle a New York based-probe in connection with the laundering of money from narcotics ...
Court fines 3 companies for Olympics ticket scam
A British court has fined three companies a total of 70,000 pounds ($113,000) for selling tickets for the London Olympics at "hugely inflated prices.
US, EU considering world's biggest free trade pact
After years of battling each other on trade issues, U.S. and European officials are contemplating a dramatic change in direction: joining together in ...
Ingersoll-Rand to spin off security business
Industrial conglomerate Ingersoll-Rand says it will spin off its security technology business and buy back $2 billion of shares. The Ireland-based ...
Amgen buying deCODE Genetics for $415 million
Biotech pioneer Amgen Inc., in a bid for a big edge in using people's genetic information to find better ways to attack diseases, is buying human ...
GM's Opel to end car production at German plant
General Motors Co.'s Opel unit said Monday that it plans to end car production at one plant in Germany in 2016, but a slimmed-down factory may ...
Fitch downgrades HSBC
Fitch Ratings has cut its debt rating on HSBC Holdings PLC, saying the risks attached to its expansion into higher-risk markets such as China is no ...
APNewsBreak: Dhaka factory lost fire certification
The factory where 112 garment workers died in a fire should have been shut down months ago. The fire department refused to renew the certification it ...
German central bank cuts 2013 growth forecast
Germany's central bank sharply cut its 2013 economic growth forecast to 0.4 percent on Friday, while poor industrial production figures underlined ...
Tsunami warning lifted for strong Japan earthquake
A strong earthquake Friday struck the same Japanese coast devastated by last year's massive quake and tsunami, generating small waves but no immediate ...
Starbucks promises to pay more UK tax
Starbucks bowed to mounting pressure over its tax affairs in Britain and revealed Thursday that it would pay about 10 million pounds ($16 million) in ...
Mongolia finds China can be too close for comfort
After years of testy debate, Mongolia broke ground this spring for a railroad that will haul coal across the pebbled Gobi desert to China, but with ...
UK Treasury chief juggles budget as outlook dims
Britain's Treasury chief George Osborne said Wednesday that the recovery of the U.K. economy is taking longer than he had hoped and warned more ...
Baxter to buy Swedish firm Gambro in $2.76 B deal
Drug and medical device maker Baxter International plans to buy the privately held Swedish company Gambro AB for about $2.76 billion to broaden its ...
Struggling Nokia sells headquarters building
Nokia Corp. plans to sell its head office near the Finnish capital to real estate investors for €170 million ($220 million) as the struggling ...
Europe takes on tech giants and their tax havens
A storm is brewing in Europe as nations try to force Internet powerhouses like Google and Amazon to pay more in taxes. Governments, hungry for money ...
Clinton pushes US bid for Czech nuclear project
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton lobbied the Czech government Monday to approve an American bid for a $10 billion expansion of a nuclear ...
Britain to clamp down on corporate tax avoidance
The British government said Monday it would spend more money catching tax avoiders, after a lawmakers' committee accused major multinational companies ...
AP IMPACT: China overtaking US as global trader
Shin Cheol-soo no longer sees his future in the United States. The South Korean businessman supplied components to American automakers for a decade.
News Corp Int'l news chief to step down
Tom Mockridge, the chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers who was parachuted in to steady an organization swamped in scandal, is ...
Iran says nuclear fuel removed because of debris
Iran's nuclear chief says fuel was removed from the country's sole nuclear reactor in October because debris had been left behind during its ...
Suu Kyi wants gov't apology for violent crackdown
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday said authorities must apologize for a violent crackdown on monks and other foes of a mine in northwest ...
Italian government moves to keep steel plant open
The Italian government on Friday approved emergency measures to prevent the closure of Europe's largest steel mill, which has been engulfed in a ...
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