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Europe's economic prospects next year are so bleak that 2011, for all the euro's agonies, has every chance of being remembered fondly.
Hedge fund billionaire Steven A. Cohen in sworn testimony earlier this year called the rules on insider trading very vague and said sometimes it's a judgment call as to whether a tidbit about a public company is inside information.
Three former executives of Washington Mutual Inc have agreed to a payment of about $75 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp over their role in the biggest bank failure in U.S. history, two sources familiar with the talks said on Tuesday.
Stocks rose on Tuesday as energy shares rallied on higher crude oil prices, but trading was volatile after German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected any suggestion of raising the limit on Europe's bailout fund.
Former MF Global chief Jon Corzine said on Tuesday he felt a need to clarify his prior statements, definitively telling a new panel of lawmakers that he never gave instructions that could have been misinterpreted as permission to misuse customer funds.
F&T Group President Michael Meyer says the future of New York - and of America as a whole - lies in large part in its ability to adapt quickly enough to the changing paradigm being posed by Asia's rising prominence.
Lawmakers investigating the collapse of futures brokerage MF Global showed frustration with the firm's leaders about what happened to hundreds of millions of dollars in missing customer funds.
DuPont expects to beat Wall Street's earnings expectation next year, with executives stressing that strong agricultural and chemical sales will offset weak shipments to electronic and housing customers.
Best Buy Co's quarterly profit missed Wall Street estimates as bigger discounts during the key holiday selling season ate into profits at the world's largest electronics chain.
U.S. lawmakers investigating the collapse of futures brokerage MF Global showed frustration with the firm's leaders about what happened to hundreds of millions of dollars in missing customer funds.
U.S.-Israeli start-up CloudShare, whose technology enables Web-based development and testing of software applications, expects to as much as triple sales in 2012 as its benefits from the rapidly growing cloud computing market.
Exchange operators NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Boerse AG offered more divestments in a bid to assuage European authorities' antitrust concerns over their proposed $9 billion merger.
Private bondholders told Greece that they were willing to consider the country's proposal on a debt swap scheme as long as new bonds they receive have the same credit status as official loans, a banker involved in the talks said.
The Federal Reserve is likely to hold off offering the economy fresh stimulus at a meeting on Tuesday as it weighs encouraging signs on the recovery against risks coming from Europe.
Retail sales rose less than expected in November as a drop in receipts for food and beverages weighed against stronger sales of motor vehicles, tempering some of the expectations of a strong holiday shopping season.
Stock index futures rose on Tuesday following an equities selloff the day before, but anxiety over Europe's debt crisis was seen keeping markets jittery ahead of the Federal Reserve's assessment of the U.S. economy.
Futures pointed to a slight rebound on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.46 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.41 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.34 percent at 5:28 a.m. ET.
European stocks and the euro steadied on Tuesday after sharp sell-offs on disappointment about last week's EU summit but any gains could be short lived due to lingering concerns over credit rating downgrades and the health of the banking sector.
The sell-off in European stocks and the euro eased on Tuesday but concerns the region remains a long way from solving its sovereign debt crisis was seen likely to keep the pressure on.
Former Washington Mutual Inc executives agreed to settle a lawsuit for less than 10 percent of the $900 million originally sought by the FDIC for their role in the biggest bank failure in U.S. history, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the situation.
Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi on Tuesday urged Europe to make further efforts to convince markets of its resolve to overcome the region's debt crisis and expressed caution about any potential Japan contribution to a rescue fund through the IMF.
Chinese shopping search engine Etao, a unit of Alibaba Group, aims to garner a 15-20 percent share of Chinese market traffic over the next three years, its parent said.
HTC Corp, the world's No.4 smartphone maker, has filed a criminal complaint against Citigroup Inc's Taiwan unit, alleging the bank published false information that led to a fall in HTC's share price, a Taiwan prosecutor said on Tuesday.
Dec 12 - Social networking. Cloud computing. Software as a service.
Apparel retailer Urban Outfitters Inc said in regulatory filing that retail segment same-store sales were up in the mid-single digits so far in the fourth quarter, sending its shares up 10 percent after the bell.
Lee Enterprises Inc , which publishes 48 daily newspapers including St. Louis Post-Dispatch, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to refinance nearly $1 billion in debt, as newspapers struggle with falling advertisement dollars and dwindling readership.
Martin Marietta Materials Inc launched a hostile $4.8 billion all-stock offer to buy larger rival Vulcan Materials Co in a bid to build the world's largest producer of sand, gravel and other construction materials.
AT&T Inc has another month to decide whether it wants to continue to pursue its $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA after a U.S. Judge agreed to delay the court battle over the deal until January 18.
Epam Systems Inc, an IT services provider with operations in Russia, is aiming to move ahead with its planned U.S. initial public offering in the first quarter of next year, two sources familiar with the situation said on Monday.
