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The top American bank was among several institutions targeted by a hacking and stock-manipulation scheme, according to U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

Wall Street has hammered the Canadian company for its recently terminated ties to a specialty drug maker with controversial pricing practices.

The two companies have held preliminary merger talks, but there is no certainty that negotiations will advance, a source said.

Markets affected may include Las Vegas; Seattle; Portland, Oregon; and Bentonville and Fort Smith, Arkansas, one source said.

A drop in oil to around $50 a barrel this year has triggered steep cutbacks in production of U.S. shale oil, a major contributors to a gloabl oversupply.

The Department of Justice wants to stop the Swedish maker of Frigidaire, Kenmore and Tappan products from buying GE's appliance business for $3.3 billion.

Jaoan's Takata must pay a $70 million cash penalty and could be fined up to $130 million if it fails to keep to the recall schedule.

Over the weekend, financial markets were served a grim reminder of soft patches in the global economy in the form of disappointing Chinese trade figures.

Edward Breen's appointment after less than a year with DuPont was announced Monday and follows the October resignation of his predecessor, Ellen Kullman.

Punitive damages are designed to punish defendants for egregious or negligent conduct, and to deter future misbehavior.

One proposal would tax all of a U.S. company's profits, foreign and domestic, at the same time and rate. Another would discourage "earnings stripping."

Investors are betting the U.S. Fed will soon begin a rate liftoff, pushing stocks down.

Corporate spending on share buybacks and dividends will rise next year faster than research investments, Goldman's top equity analyst said in a note Monday.

The Markit China Business Outlook survey shows business sentiment is waning as the country copes with an economic slowdown.

The corporate earnings pace has slowed in the June-September quarter compared to last year. This week we’ll begin to see how large U.S. retailers have fared.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development says global growth is expected to gain speed in 2016 and 2017, despite China's slowing GDP.

As Asian stocks slipped Monday morning, the robust U.S. jobs report bolstered expectations of a Fed interest rate hike.

Low crude prices will likely continue, as Saudi officials said they have no plans to reduce oil drilling.

Ahead of a crucial European Central Bank meeting in December, Bank of France chief François Villeroy de Galhau praised monetary stimulus.

The rising power of activist shareholders has added a new responsibility to the role of a board director at a publicly traded company: investor relations.

The data released Sunday show the country's foreign trade dropped 9 percent in October, marking its eighth consecutive monthly decline.

Regulators in Beijing are postponing plans to loosen controls on China's economy as the country struggles to maintain an acceptable growth rate.

The biggest foreign-exchange stockpile in the world had dwindled previously in 2015 with China's central bank selling dollar assets in an attempt to stabilize the financial system.

The Sydney-based company, valued at $3.3 billion, has earned a reputation for funding its growth with its profitability -- a novel approach in the fast-growing tech industry.

The 1921 Martin Act, used to prosecute large-scale fraud and other offenses, is now being evoked against the oil giant.

Several signs point to solid performance by the business sector as it heads into its strongest sales season.

Traders began buying U.S. bonds and selling stocks as a bigger-than-anticipated increase in U.S. employment raised the possibility of higher borrowing costs.

How New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is hoping to use a state securities law to prove the oil giant misled investors on climate change.

The health of the U.S. jobs market is one of the key factors in the Fed's thinking over a December rate hike that has aided the dollar's strength.