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America's romance with royalty is blooming, just four days away from Prince William's marriage to Kate Middleton.

General Motors Co killed its minivan in the U.S. market thanks to its soccer-mom stigma, but the automaker has carved out a high-priced niche for the vehicle as a chauffeur-driven executive ride in China.

Traders and investors in Netflix are bracing for a sizable move in the stock's price after earnings on Monday afternoon -- just not as big as usual.

A group of creditors led by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley proposed a restructuring plan for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc that would boost recoveries for the banks and keep separate the assets of Lehman's bankrupt subsidiaries.

Food, beverage and household products companies have been pressured for months by rising commodity costs and their stocks have paid the price, but Kimberly-Clark Corp showed on Monday things could be even worse.

Netflix Inc , accustomed to delivering stunning growth, failed to wow investors as it issued an earnings outlook that fell short of expectations.

The Ford Motor Co will idle plants in Taiwan, China and South Africa beginning this week due to the shortage of parts from Japan after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the company said on Monday.

Nasdaq OMX Group and IntercontinentalExchange warned NYSE Euronext investors to be highly skeptical of the additional cost savings that the NYSE says will result from its friendly merger with Deutsche Bourse.

The Obama Administration has fired back at comments made over the weekend by Franklin Graham, son of famed evangelist preacher Billy Graham that the President might not have been born in the U.S.

The Turkish government has criticized U.S. President Barack Obama for comments he made while commemorating the deaths of 1.5-million Armenians during World War I at the hands of the Turks of the Ottoman Empire.

Sales of new U.S. homes rose in March and the number of new properties on the market was its lowest since the 1960s, but further gains will be hampered by the broader property glut.

The Italian air force will play a greater role in NATO’s air strike campaign in Libya, according to statement from the office of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Kleenex tissue maker Kimberly-Clark Corp posted a steeper-than-expected drop in quarterly profit on Monday and cut the low end of its full-year forecast as costs of pulp and other goods are rising more than twice as much as it anticipated.

A group of banks including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley has filed a plan to restructure Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc that would let the failed bank's different parts remain separate.

British security experts warn that Irish Republican terrorist groups may engineer attacks on the day of the Royal Wedding this Friday.

American Express Co , which is trying to move beyond its traditional credit card lending business, is hoping MasterCard Inc's head of prepaid debit products can help expand its offerings.

The fate of hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam was in the hands of a jury on Monday in the biggest Wall Street insider trading trial in decades, a case that featured FBI phone taps and former friends who testified against him.

Donald Trump has made yet another high-profile enemy over his accusations that President Barack Obama may not have been born in the U.S.

Oil rose above $124 a barrel on Monday, pushed higher by an escalation of violence in the oil-producing Middle East and post-election unrest in OPEC member Nigeria.

Testimony unveiled on Sunday in documents released by Wikileaks from prisoners of the United States in Guantanamo, Cuba is not reliable because they were subjected to torture or other forms of coercion, or include false statements by other prisoners, an expert on the matter says.

Three men running technology vendor businesses were indicted last week for selling millions of dollars worth of laptops to Iran.