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"Skyfall" director Sam Mendes revealed he will not return to direct the next James Bond movie, in an interview with Empire.

Saudi-owned RGA is launching a dozen European brands in the U.S. by opening 175 to 200 mall stores in the next 12 months.

Approval opens the way for the Malaysian budget carrier to acquire a license and begin operations before the end of the year.

Payroll provider ADP said businesses added a better-than-expected 198,000 jobs in February, despite the payroll tax hike.

Harvest Natural Resources, Deutsche Bank AG, Telefonica S.A, and Facebook Inc prevailed in the pre-market trading Wednesday.

Economists polled by Reuters expect the economy to have created 160,000 jobs in February -- basically at the same pace as 2012.

The U.S. stock index futures point to a higher open Mar.6, ahead of the publication of ADP's National Employment Report and Fed's Beige Book.

Asian stock markets advanced Wednesday as sentiment was buoyed after the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted a new record high.

The top after-market NYSE gainers were Homeowners Choice, Emulex Corp, Harvest Natural Resources, Verifone Systems and BPZ Resources.

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal has "retained counsel" against Forbes, saying the magazine's billionaires list undervalued him by almost $1 billion.

Chavez left behind a wealth of bizarre and often humorous quotes.

Dow Jones Industrial Average has shattered its old record, burying the legacy of the Great Recession.

Increasing residential construction is expected to propel growth for green building materials by 11 percent annually.

North American purchase plans for civilian helicopters is up, while global deliveries could be as high as 5,600 units through 2017.

The theatrical trailer for "Iron Man 3" was released on Tuesday.

The huge increase in natural gas and oil production has helped make Houston the top U.S. city for corporate expansions.

INRIX Gridlock Index says traffic congestion increases as companies ship more, hire more and as consumers spend more.

The benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average stock index set a record high Tuesday, pushing through the 14,164 level reached in Oct. 2007.

Three years after it nearly sold its ailing German auto company, GM says it's committed to turning it around.

The March ISM reports shows that the services sector grew 0.8 percent in February to 56 percent.

Germany and France are now farther apart than at any other time in the 15-year history of the Markit PMI survey.

The studio behind the "50 Shades of Grey" porn parody, Smash Picutres, filed a counterclaim arguing that the erotic novel is public domain.

The LaFerrari has a 800-horsepower gasoline engine and a 163-horsepower electric motor.

In a 19th-century lower Manhattan skyscraper, a "mathematically minded" couple has created a modernistic fun house based on a dissertation.

India's patent office has rejected Bayer AG's challenge to letting an Indian company produce a generic of its cancer drug Nexavar.

Executives at the 83rd Geneva Car Show offered a grim prognosis for annual auto sales in the European Union.

Nokia Corp, Alcatel Lucent, Rio Tinto, United States Steel, Weyerhaeuser and J.C. Penney Co prevailed in the pre-market trading Tuesday.

While year-over-year monthly sales are still down for the Japanese auto giants, the declines are shrinking.

China's version of the the 2013 Forbes Billionaires list suggests that hundreds of Chinese billionaires are not being accounted for.