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U.S. home-builder sentiment fell unexpectedly in March, hit by lack of credit for new projects and a flood of foreclosed properties, the National Associati 536870913 1869488239

News Corp is looking to sell Jamster, a mobile phone content business which provides ring tones and online dating services.

Philippine food-to-power conglomerate San Miguel Corp said it is willing to sell its 51 percent in flagship firm San Miguel Brewery to Japan's Kirin Holdings.

BYD Co, the Chinese car and battery maker backed by U.S. billionaire Warren Buffett, posted a forecast-beating fourth-quarter result on Sunday.

Toyota Motor Corp has slashed production of the Prius hybrid model by 10 percent from March due to a slowdown in sales from a peak last year.

SolarWorld, Germany's top solar company, will see its margins drop this year as its premium price strategy comes under attack, hurting one of the last intact investment cases in the sector.

Citigroup named Keshav Sanghi as head of India equities, just two months after he joined the firm as head of sales and deputy head of equities for its Indian business.

Australia's Arrow Energy is set to reject as too low a $3 billion joint takeover offer from Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina

Airbus parent EADS has received no word of any changes to a contest to supply aerial refueling tankers to the United States, the head of Airbus Military said on Monday.

Petrohawk Energy Corp said it agreed to sell its interest in Terryville Field, Louisiana, to a private company for $320 million.

Hollywood producer Jon Landau said on Sunday he and director James Cameron were considering a sequel to 3D blockbuster Avatar among several new projects.

Alice in Wonderland raced to a $430 million haul at the worldwide box office on Sunday, while Matt Damon's new Iraq war conspiracy thriller Green Zone was one of the year's first big flops.

JP Morgan (JPM.N) Asset Management has invested almost a quarter of its $860 million Asian infrastructure fund in China and India assets

Safety investigators have found no evidence so far to support or disprove a California motorist's claim his Toyota Motor Corp Prius sped out of control on its own, and cautioned the case may never be explained, U.S. regulators said on Monday.

Fiat boss Sergio Marchionne will look at spinning off its car business from the rest of the industrial group only when he has a firmer grip on U.S. maker Chrysler and can put the two together.

Paying for extras has become routine for airline passengers but it doesn't mean they like it, with a poll showing more than half all travelers hate having to fork out to choose their seat.

As the U.S. economy improves, more of the shoppers who flocked to Wal-Mart to save money during the recession are moving back to the stores they frequented before, a new survey showed on Friday.

Vaccines that contain a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal cannot cause autism on their own, a special U.S. court ruled on Friday, dealing one more blow to parents seeking to blame vaccines for their children's illness.

Opel workers demanded reassurances that its European brand will not be disadvantaged at the expense of sister brand Chevrolet, after Opel lost responsibility for the Russian region to an Asian arm of General Motors.

Jon Daurio, chief executive officer of mortgage investor Kondaur Capital Corp., recently offered a $4,000 check to Barry Culver for the deed to his Bryan, Ohio house.

Southern California prosecutors filed the first U.S. consumer protection lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp on Friday, claiming it had engaged in fraud by hiding evidence of dangerous vehicle defects.

An Obama administration program to help struggling homeowners modify their mortgages has more than one million active borrowers,

Toyota Motor Corp was hit by a planned lawsuit by California prosecutors on Friday over vehicle defects and by renewed political pressure to cooperate with investigators on cases of runaway cars.

MGM Mirage said on Friday it will sell its 50 percent interest in the Borgata Hotel in Atlantic City in a settlement with New Jersey, which objects to the casino owner's partner in a separate venture in Macau.

Bank of America Corp completed 20,666 mortgage modifications in March under a U.S. government-backed program, up 61 percent from February, the bank said on Friday.

Wells Fargo & Co may be moving toward a settlement of Baltimore's lawsuit accusing it of steering minority borrowers to expensive home loans.

U.S. demand for residential heating and cooling systems, which was pounded by the long housing slump, may have hit bottom, the head of United Technologies Corp's Carrier air conditioner arm said.

Unprecedented discounts after a series of damaging recalls boosted Toyota Motor Corp's U.S. sales in early March, as U.S. regulators weighed new auto safety measures.

Nissan Motor launched its much-awaited, low-cost compact car on Friday, aiming to become a major force in the fast-growing segment with a global sales target of one million units a year by 2013.