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China's annual consumer inflation slowed more sharply than expected to a seven-month low of 2.5 percent in December, easing market fears of monetary policy tightening although the central bank is tapping the brakes on bank liquidity. Rising money market rates...

Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics have agreed to attend a mediation session to be held on or before February 19, as they prepare to clash in court in March over smartphone patents. Apple CEO Tim Cook and Samsung CEO Oh-Hyun...

INGRID BOAK POSES IN FRONT OF HER NOW-RENTED HOME IN LEXINGTON For six years, Ingrid Boak, who travels a lot for work as a racehorse trainer, ignored mail from her homeowner association. Boak, of Lexington, Kentucky, says the letters were requests...

The Panama Canal and a Spanish-led building consortium expanding the major world cargo route are haggling over financing to keep work going amid a cost dispute, raising hopes of a deal. Building consortium Grupo Unidos por el Canal (GUPC), led...

Federal regulators are probing whether several big banks deliberately mispriced mortgage bonds in the years following the financial crisis, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people close to the inquiry. The new investigation is a potential blow to the banks...

FORD MOTOR CO. CEO ALAN MULALLY Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is closer to naming a new chief executive, according to a source familiar with the board's thinking, but it lost a front-runner candidate on Tuesday when Ford Motor Co's (F.N) chief,...

Apple Inc is seeking the removal of a lawyer appointed by a court to monitor its antitrust compliance following a ruling last year that the company had conspired to fix e-book prices. An attorney for the consumer technology giant on...

SAN FRANCISCO, January 07, 2014, (THEWILL) –  Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest person and the President of Dangote Group, one of the continent’s largest conglomerates is estimated to have added a whopping $9.2 billion during 2013 outgone year. He remains...

In the year 2013, Zenith Bank plc was the banking stock with the highest market capitalisation at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). Market capitalisation is the product of total number of paid-up shares and current market price. An analysis of...

Asian shares fell to a near four-month low on Tuesday, though the dollar rebounded after overnight weakness on disappointing U.S. services sector data that raised concerns about stuttering growth in the world's largest economy. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares...