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China has over-reported its exports for the last five months, and its economy is growing much less than widely believed.

Citigroup is banning its forex traders from using their Bloomberg terminal chat rooms to talk to each other -- but they can still use it for outside clients.

HSBC will declare 14,000 layoffs through 2016 in an effort to save up to $3 billion.

Japan's Economy grew the most in a year last quarter, as GDP rose an annualized 3.5 percent.

Question: How can you tell when the stock market sets a record high? Answer: When your watch says it's 4 pm.

German exports and investments fell in the first quarter as French exports declined, too, for the second quarter in a row.

The EU is investigating whether oil giants colluded in reporting distorted prices to fix market prices for oil.

Talk about buy-and-hold: Chinese "grannies" appear to have the world's longest time horizon when it comes to gold investing.

The CFTC is investigating the legitimacy of more than 1 million energy and metals transactions by the biggest traders.

The era of banks deciding for themselves how much to charge one another for money is probably over.

What does Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson know about Coinbase that other investors might want to know?

Bloomberg cut its reporters' access to confidential client data, but could it be too late to avoid damage to its bottom line?

The U.S. Justice Department has confirmed it's looking into alleged "Black Money" ties between Barclays and Saudi King Abdullah's son.

Some of the world’s leading hedge funds are pouring money into the Greek banking sector in expectation of huge potential returns.

Bloomberg's former policy of allowing its reporters to access certain account info of its financial-analysis service clients is being reviewed.

The path to payback involves banks, processors, insurers, creditors and courts, plus contracts that don't yet cover such crimes.

Indian card processor ElectraCard was identified as one of two companies affected by a $45 million online heist.

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan has come under fire as advisory firms recommend his role gets split into two. While some are coming for his job, others are throwing support behind Dimon.

Chinese companies’ European love affair continued through 2012 as investments in the continent rose by as much as 21 percent.

In one of the biggest bank heists ever, credit-card processing firms were hacked and ATMs in 27 countries were hit.

The United States' too-big-to-fail banks are apparently also too big to compete.

The bank also maintained its purchase of 375 billion pounds ($584 billion) of debt after the UK narrowly avoided a triple-dip recession.

Overall lending more than doubled in 2012 and loans to commercial enterprises are up 11 percent this year.

U.S. and German stock market indexes set records on an array of encouraging reports and central bank actions.

The state-controlled Bank of China has ended dealings with a key North Korean bank in response to the North's nuclear and missile tests.

Debt-burdened country finds investors willing to loan it 3 billion euros, despite the country's diminished credit ratings.

New York state will sue the pair for violating the National Mortgage Settlement agreement.

Analysts expect a revival for Caterpillar's products on sentiment that government stimulus will likely aid global economies in 2013.

German and France finance chiefs will meet Tuesday, on the heels of France hailing the EC's decision to extend budget-cutting deadline.