UNITED STATES

Bank of America Corp is in talks with New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo's office to settle a probe on bonuses paid to Merrill Lynch executives, the New York Times reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter.

U.S. retailers are in for a much better year as the economy improves, but stubborn unemployment and high consumer debt levels will limit the extent of the recovery, industry experts said on Monday.

A Manhattan federal judge on Monday rejected the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's effort to expand its lawsuit accusing Bank of America Corp of misleading shareholders over bonuses paid by Merrill Lynch & Co.

A Manhattan federal judge on Monday rejected the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's effort to expand its lawsuit accusing Bank of America Corp of misleading shareholders over bonuses paid by Merrill Lynch & Co.

U.S. companies doing substantial business in Venezuela, such as Avon Products Inc and Colgate-Palmolive Co , are bracing for the impact from the country's currency devaluation.

Microsoft Corp. has pulled almost every version of Office from its own online store in compliance with a court order after a patent dispute with Canadian firm i4i.

WHAT: U.S. December retail sales reportWHEN: Thursday, January 14 at 8:30 a.m. (1330 GMT)

U.S. industrial shares lifted the Dow and the S&P 500 on Monday to new 15-month highs after China bolstered expectations the world economy would strengthen, but Nasdaq fell on profit-taking in tech stocks.

Toyota Motor Corp expects industrywide sales of 11.5 million light vehicles in the United States this year, said Jim Lentz, president and chief operating officer of Toyota Motor Sales, at the North American International Auto Show on Monday.

The U.S. government has provided more than $1 trillion of support to financial companies in a bid to keep credit flowing to the U.S. economy.

A video of the CIA bomber in Afghanistan sitting beside the Pakistani Taliban leader created the impression that the group may have played a key role in the second biggest attack in agency history.

Republican Sarah Palin is coming to your television -- as long as it's tuned to the Fox News Channel.

U.S. auto executives and elected officials at the Detroit auto show on Monday sought to draw a curtain on a year of appalling sales and massively unpopular government aid.

The Australian Dollar opens marginally higher on Tuesday against its U.S. counterpart at 0.9311.

The White House and New York's top prosecutor attacked excessive Wall Street bonuses, as the nation's biggest banks prepare to hand out awards critics say were made possible by taxpayer bailouts.

U.S. industrial shares lifted the Dow and the S&P 500 on Monday to new 15-month highs after China bolstered expectations the world economy would strengthen, but Nasdaq fell on profit-taking in tech stocks.

Heineken NV will buy the beer business of Mexico's FEMSA in a $5.7 billion deal that boosts the Dutch brewer's emerging-markets presence and cements an alliance with one of Latin America's biggest drinks firms.

U.S. technology stocks fell on Monday as investors took profits after the Nasdaq hit a 16-month high on Friday, while shares of industrials buoyed the broad market after strong Chinese economic data.

Microsoft Corp. has pulled almost every version of Office from its own online store in compliance with a court order after a patent dispute with Canadian firm i4i. As of mid-day today, the only edition available from the Microsoft Store was Office Ultimate 2007, a $670 full-version suite.

Top automotive industry executives gathered at the media preview for the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, starting on Sunday.

Ford Motor Co. shares climbed on Monday as the company won the North American Car and Truck of the year awards for the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid and the 2010 Ford Transit Connect, respectively, at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show.