BUSAN, South Korea (Reuters) - G20 finance ministers and central bankers will endorse efforts to douse the euro zone's debt crisis but are far apart on the contentious issue of a global bank levy, a senior South Korean official said on Friday.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil's steep drop of more than $20 a barrel over three weeks last month, sparked by European debt woes, underscored market volatility from stocks to commodities and the fragile state of global economic recovery.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Investors will scour a preliminary prospectus for Agricultural Bank of China's around $30 billion IPO, the world's largest, for updates on its book value and bad loans.
WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. consumers are venting frustration over the BP oil spill, demonstrating at gas stations and corporate offices, drumming up support on Facebook and waging a mock public relations campaign on Twitter.
WASHINGTON, Jun (Reuters) - U.S. nonfarm payrolls likely rose at their fastest pace in nearly 27 years in May as the government ramped up hiring for the census and businesses grew more optimistic about the economy, a Reuters survey showed.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar and Asian stocks held on to recent gains on Friday ahead of a report expected to show the highest U.S. jobs growth since 1983, supporting a cautious shift back into riskier assets this week.
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Three top Federal Reserve officials said on Thursday it may soon be time to begin raising interest rates as the economic recovery in the United States gathers momentum, despite persistently high unemployment.
DETROIT (Reuters) - The European bailout of Greece may have prevented "catastrophic" results but Europe needs to take further action to resolve the region's debt crisis, Chrysler Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne said on Thursday.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc's next-generation iPhone, which CEO Steve Jobs is widely expected to unveil on Monday, will have to really set new standards in multimedia content and function to wow Wall Street and consumers.
LONDON (Reuters) - Prudential's management team is under no pressure to step down over the British insurer's failed $35.5 billion bid to buy AIG's Asian life unit, Chairman Harvey McGrath said in an interview published on Friday.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc's chief executive said on Thursday he has considered taking the company he founded private, and said the transformation of the computer maker is still incomplete.
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Business in Las Vegas is picking up, particularly on weekends, as the economy recovers, Las Vegas Sands Corp Chief Executive Sheldon Adelson said on Thursday in an interview on the CNBC network.
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Two top Federal Reserve officials said on Thursday it may soon be time to begin raising interest rates as the U.S. economic recovery gathers momentum, despite persistent unemployment.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The global economy had enough momentum before Europe's debt crisis struck to weather it without a sharp downturn, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Thursday.
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - Washington Mutual Inc's effort to exit bankruptcy encountered a setback on Thursday when the judge in the case ordered the company to talk further with shareholders about their requests for documents.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Companies and inventors who pay extra would be able to get a quicker review of their patent applications under a proposal by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced on Thursday.
(Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a higher opening on Wall Street on Thursday and extending the previous sharp rally, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.51 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.38 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.4 percent at 0742 GMT.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The jarring "flash crash" on May 6 yielded a record trading day at TD Ameritrade Holding Corp , though some of its customers were upset with the market breakdown that day, the U.S. online brokerage's chief said on Thursday.
BARTLESVILLE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - A top Federal Reserve Official said on Thursday the U.S. central bank should raise rates to 1 percent by the end of the summer to avoid having to raise borrowing costs abruptly as the economic recovery gains momentum.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private employers added 55,000 jobs in May, compared with an upwardly revised gain of 65,000 in April, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Thursday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Policymakers have largely succeeded in stabilizing the U.S. financial system and economy over the past two years but the scarcity of jobs is troubling, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Thursday.
DETROIT (Reuters) - May brought mixed sales results for retailers, with early reports on Thursday suggesting an erratic recovery in consumer spending during a seasonally weaker period of shopping.
LONDON (Reuters) - Luxury groups are finally warming to the Internet, lured by surging sales and a wider audience for their brands, though lingering suspicions could limit the level of online penetration compared with the wider retail sector.
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Growth in the euro zone services sector quickened in May, helped by a the recovery in France, but activity slowed in the big emerging economies and was stable in the United States, surveys showed on Thursday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Fitch Ratings downgraded BP , becoming the first agency to cut the oil major's credit rating and reversing its initial view that the financial impact of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on BP would be limited.
NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson sees its medical device sales growing faster than the industry through 2014 and plans about 80 "significant" regulatory submissions for its largest unit in the next two years.
ROGERS, Arkansas (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc is still learning about the Russian market, a country it sees as underserved by retailers, a top Walmart International officer said on Thursday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The jarring "flash crash" on May 6 yielded a record trading day at TD Ameritrade Holding Corp , although some customers were upset with the market breakdown that day, the U.S. online brokerage's chief said on Thursday.
ATLANTA (Reuters) - The U.S. economy is almost strong enough to allow the Federal Reserve to begin raising interest rates, Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart said on Thursday.
(Reuters) - Costco Wholesale Corp said it saw May sales in stores open at least a year rise 9 percent, slightly less than Wall Street forecasts for the period, which included an extra day compared with a year ago due to the shift in the Memorial day holiday.
ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss parliament's upper house on Thursday backed a Swiss-U.S. tax deal that averted the risk of crippling legal action against UBS but punched a hole in the country's treasured bank secrecy.
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. investment bank JP Morgan Securities Ltd has been fined a record 33.32 million pounds ($49.12 million) by Britain's regulator for failing to protect billions of dollars of client money over almost seven years.
VIENTIANE (Reuters) - Isolated for decades behind Asia's bamboo curtain, communist Laos will soon take a great leap into the global capitalist marketplace with the launch of a stock exchange to fuel a quiet mining and hydro-power boom.
BUSAN, South Korea (Reuters) - Disagreements over how quickly to reduce billowing budget deficits and restore balance to the global economy risk straining high-level Group of 20 talks that started on Thursday.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Global miner Xstrata threatened to scrap $5.4 billion in Australian coal and copper projects, blaming a new mining tax and taking the value of new developments put on hold to above $20 billion in just a month.
LONDON (Reuters) - British oil giant BP will speak with analysts on Friday, a spokeswoman for the company said after analysts pointed to a planned conference call as one possible reason for a spike in its battered shares.
BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) - French-inspired plans to create an "economic government" for the euro zone took a step forward on Wednesday when European Council President Herman Van Rompuy threw his weight behind the idea.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian stocks jumped on Thursday, posting their biggest single-day gain in four weeks, as U.S. housing data fueled optimism about the world's largest economy.
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