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Asian stock markets mostly ended lower last week as sentiment was weighed down by the report that China’s inflation rate accelerated to a seven-month high in December, denting hopes of further stimulus measures to boost the ongoing recovery in the world’s second largest economy.

Goldman Sachs' move may have changed the money market fund industry's practice of only reporting prices every 60 days.

Alcatel Lucent SA, JPMorgan Chase, Marathon Oil Corp, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Alcoa, Carnival Corp, Rio Tinto plc and Deutsche Bank AG are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Thursday.

A judge set Jan. 23 for a pretrial conference on the class-action lawsuit against Facebook.

Among the top fines this year: sanctions-busting, deceiving the world on a benchmark interest rate, and even banking for drug lords.

Carnival Corp, JPMorgan Chase, Peabody Energy, EMC Corp, American International Group, Tesoro Corp, Bank of America Corp, Apple Inc, NYSE Euronext and Facebook Inc. are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Friday.

Illumina, JP Morgan Chase, Gazit-globe, HomeAway, Diageo, BHP Billiton, Herbalife, Nokia Corporation, and Ericsson are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Wednesday.

Nokia Corp, American International Group, BHP Billiton Ltd, Bank of America Corp, JPMorgan Chase, Apple Inc, AspenBio Pharma, ING Groep and Woodward Inc. are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Tuesday.

Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), lead underwriter of the $109 billion initial public offering of Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) was fined $5 million by Massachusetts regulators.

Next year should be a good one for big banks such as Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and UBS.

Research in Motion is advising selected customers that the long-delayed BlackBerry 10 will be ready by January, earlier than expected.

Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) has agreed to sell its consumer credit card portfolio to TD Bank Group.

The financial press fawned over the quarterly results of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) Friday. But why?

Barclays Plc, ING Groep N.V, JPMorgan Chase & Co, France Telecom SA, Advanced Micro Devices, Infosys Ltd, Kinder Morgan Inc and Arch Coal Inc. are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Friday.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) could get a big boost from capital markets activity this quarter. But dangers lurk.

Deutsche Bank AG, Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, ON Semiconductor Corp, Rio Tinto, Alcatel Lucent SA, Groupon Inc, Silver Standard Resources and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Tuesday.

Three key U.S. housing reports Wednesday are expected to show small improvements in the market.

The world's second-largest platinum producer said striking South African miners are demanding another 8 to 10 percent pay hike like the one they received in April that ended a six-week strike.

R. Kelly's tax woes are continuing, with the Chicago crooner now owing Uncle Sam more than $6 million.

Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST) stock price touched an all-time high on Thursday, a day after co-founder and former CEO James Sinegal addressed the Democratic National Convention.

Late Monday, word leaked out that Draghi is now saying the ECB should pursue a policy of monetizing sovereign debt of periphery countries -- that is, printing reams of new euro to buy bonds issued by those governments -- even though such a policy path exceeds the central bank's mandate and has been adamantly opposed by the German political establishment.

The Dodd-Frank Act was passed in 2010 to rein in the Wall Street excesses that led to the financial crisis, but the massive law is only around half complete, according to the Financial Services Committee's Dodd-Frank Burden Tracker.

This month has been the busiest August on record for global corporate bond issuance as low-risk free yields on government bonds pushed investors to find better returns in corporate credit.

Banks involved in London interbank offered rate benchmark, or Libor, manipulations could be liable for billions of dollars in lawsuits from a slew of financial firms and investors who were affected by the distortions, according to reports.

The good news for investors in Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, is that the shares didn’t set a new, post-initial public offering low on Wednesday. But they have come close, trading as low as $18.96 before recovering to $19.40, up 24 cents in late trading.

Bank of America Corp. (BAC) discontinued credit protection services to customers as it came under scanner for allegations of customer enrollments through improper practices and charging customers without consent. A class action suit is reportedly pending against BAC on the issue.

Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, fell to a new record low of $19.01 in midday Friday trading, a day after insiders were allowed to sell as many as 241 million shares they had been required to hold since the May 17 initial public offering.

European investors looking to bet on risky derivatives will be able to use gold to back their trades, one of the Continent's major exchanges said Friday, a development that could both make the yellow precious metal a more valuable asset and foster the growth of derivative trading volume.

Deutsche Bank, Barclays, JPMorgan Chase, RBS, HSBC, UBS and Citigroup have all received subpoenas, related to the joint New York-Connecticut investigation of possible manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor)