Bankrupt shopping mall owner General Growth Properties Inc , which is seeking to surface from bankruptcy protection next year, posted a narrower net loss in November from the month before, according to a monthly regulatory filing.
The U.S. commercial paper market expanded for the second week in a row in the latest week, Federal Reserve data showed on Thursday.
U.S. mortgage rates rose in the latest week for a fourth straight week and hit the highest level since August, a closely watched mortgage survey showed on Thursday.
German carmakers will gain market share by producing more smaller vehicles, even as competition in the global auto industry intensifies, the head of Germany's VDA automotive industry association said in an interview.
Guinea will make no economic or social progress until uncertainty over the health of its wounded junta chief is resolved, potential investors and Conakry residents said on Thursday
South Africa's trade union Solidarity said on Thursday four workers died at the Newcastle plant of the local unit of the world's top steel maker ArcelorMittal (ACLJ.J).
PTT Chemical PCL (PTTC.BK) will defer maintenance at its 461,000 tonnes per year (tpy) ethane cracker by about two months to February, while it holds trial runs at its new 1 million-tpy cracker, its CEO said on Thursday.
U.S. copper was up half percent to 16-month highs on Thursday as fund buying and a looming mine strike in Chile put the red metal on course for a 140 percent gain this year, its best in at least 20 years.
Digital Realty Trust Inc (DLR.N) said it, along with its operating partnership Digital Realty Trust L.P., plans to raise up to $400 million through sale of its common shares.
Anika Therapeutics Inc (ANIK.O) said it acquired a unit of privately held Italian company Fidia Farmaceutici Spa in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $34 million.
Prudential Financial Inc(PRU.N) said on Thursday it completed the planned sale of itsminority stake in a retail brokerage to Wells Fargo & Co(WFC.N) for $4.5 billion in cash.
Venture capital investors spent 36 percent less this year on clean technology for a total of nearly $5 billion, an industry group reported on Wednesday.
U.S. trucking giant YRC Worldwide said on Thursday it averted bankruptcy by successfully negotiating a critical debt-for-equity exchange that wipes out $470 million in debt and gives the struggling company access to needed credit as it restructures.
Pfizer Inc shares fell 1 percent on Thursday after it said a U.S. decision on whether to approve the company's new version of its big-selling Prevnar vaccine that fights pneumonia and meningitis would push past the deadline.
Geely, China's No.1 private carmaker, said on Thursday that its parent company has strong support from the Chinese government to acquire Ford Motor's Volvo unit, and expects robust growth for China's auto industry in 2010, also with help from Beijing.
UC RUSAL plans to raise up to $2.6 billion in a landmark Hong Kong IPO next month and is betting on aluminum price growth to repay nearly $15 billion in debt and restore profits after a miserable first half of 2009.
Several cabinet members of the Japanese government want Japan Airlines Corp to withdraw completely from its international flights business and consolidate it with that of All Nippon Airways Co, the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper reported on Thursday.
A top executive at American International Group Inc has resigned because of pay curbs imposed by the Obama Administration's pay czar, the insurer said on Wednesday.
AT&T Inc told U.S. telecoms regulators that it should set plans for phasing out older telephone networks if the government wants to make high-speed Internet access available across the country.
Canadian home resale prices rose for a sixth straight month in October on gains in all six major metropolitan markets surveyed, according to a report on Wednesday.
Holiday season sales improved this year after an abysmal 2008, but early data appears unlikely to spell out a rebound in U.S. consumer spending.
GMAC Financial Services is expected to get about $3.5 billion of additional U.S. government aid to help the troubled lender absorb mortgage losses, a financial industry source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
A project director who helped broker the 2005 sale of Riverside South Properties, one of New York City's largest real estate transactions, has pleaded guilty to a tax evasion charge but is not expected to face prison time.
Saudi Arabia has quit a long-held lease for 5 million barrels of Caribbean oil storage near the key U.S. market and state giant PetroChina is poised to move in, industry sources say, a potentially major shift in global oil trade dynamics.
Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk (NOVOb.CO) said on Wednesday that formal feedback from U.S. regulators on its Victoza diabetes drug has been delayed beyond year-end but is expected within weeks.
Fannie Mae (FNM.N) (FNM.P), the largest U.S. home funding source, on Wednesday said it sold $2 billion of benchmark bills at mixed interest rates compared with the same maturities auctioned a week ago.
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Joint hosts Poland's Euro 2012 preparations suffered a blow on Wednesday when one of the venue cities scrapped a deal with a company building a tournament stadium.
Egyptian mobile telephone operator Mobinil (EMOB.CA) will issue 1.5 billion Egyptian pounds ($273.3 million) in 5-year bonds starting mid-January, the bond's underwriter EFG-Hermes (HRHO.CA) said.
