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A record number of shares in Olympus Corp. are being bought and sold through Japanese margin-trading accounts as investors seek to capitalize on volatility amid a scandal over payments to advisers.
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China must continue efforts to control food and housing prices to ease soaring inflation and maintain economic development and social stability, Premier Wen Jiabao said.
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New York developer Harry Macklowe won a jury verdict that his company doesn’t owe Carl Icahn’s Meadow Star LLC $60 million for backing away from a 2006 bid to buy six New York skyscrapers from Reckson Associates Realty Corp.
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Libya is preparing to officially declare its liberation today following the death of Muammar Qaddafi, the autocrat who ruled the North African country for more than four decades.
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Google Inc. is considering providing financing for an acquisition of Yahoo! Inc. by another company or a group of bidders, according to a person who has been briefed on the matter.
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European leaders descended on Brussels in a last-ditch effort to stamp out a two-year-old financial crisis that threatens to tip the world into a recession.
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President Barack Obama signed into law free-trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama that the administration says will support tens of thousands of American jobs.
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Dean Boland, the new lawyer for Facebook claimant Paul Ceglia, was ordered to pay $300,000 in an unrelated lawsuit over his use of explicit “morphed” images that he created to help in his defense of people charged with possessing child pornography.
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Falling electricity prices in Brazil are hindering investments in new sugar-cane mills, an analyst at Banco Bradesco SA said.
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Mobile telephones don’t raise the chance of developing central nervous system cancers, according to a study of Danish mobile-phone subscribers published today in the British Medical Journal.
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As impressive as it was for Apple Inc. to sell four million new iPhones last week, millions more users will be affected by another release: iOS 5, the latest version of the operating system that runs every iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
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This was a week of St. Tropez, man-caves, hot novelists, tough bankers and famous producer granddaughters. Here are some highlights you might have missed or still remember.
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The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Texas Rangers 16-7 in the third game of World Series at Rangers Ballpark.
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Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabia’s deputy prime minister and minister of defense and aviation, has died. He was born in Riyadh in 1928, according to the Saudi embassy in Washington, and was heir apparent to the throne.
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