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HSBC took too long to file for judicial intervention in foreclosure cases in four New York counties, the N.Y. state attorney general said.

An incoming legislative report turns up the political pressure on UK Chancellor George Osborne, who believes RBS should be fully privatized.

The Indonesian government shut down production at a U.S.-owned ore mine following the deaths of 28 workers in a May 14 tunnel collapse.

Official statistics show the U.S.’ trade gap with other countries up slightly from last month’s figures.

Turkey's stock market has plunged amid the ongoing political/social unrest.

"Give me your ailing investors, your huddled money managers yearning for success ..."

Nomura, Sodastream, General Motors, BioMarin and SAP AG prevailed in the pre-market trading on Tuesday.

Ahead of the release of the U.S. trade deficit report, U.S. stock futures point to slightly lower open on Tuesday.

Shinzo Abe is preparing to ask Japan's public pension funds -- worth $2 trillion -- to raise their investment in riskier assets, Reuters reports.

Regulators voted to term AIG, Prudential Financial and GE Capital as "systemically important" and place them under increased scrutiny.

Zynga relied too much on Facebook.

As online payment systems proliferate, the U.S. Federal Reserve has cast a wary eye.

A 19-year-old Chinese model bought 60 million yuan of stock in a company whose shares then jumped 47 percent. Was she a straw buyer?

Rhode Island’s Japonica Partners seeks to buy 2.9 billion euros worth of Greek bonds from major bondholders.

Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) said Tuesday it sold 246,585 vehicles in April, a 14 percent increase from a year ago.

Two more Chinese companies drop plans to go public as regulator turns on the screws.

Infosys, ASML, MannKind, Best Buy and Whole Foods prevailed in the pre-market trading on Monday.

U.S. stock futures point to mixed open on Monday as markets await manufacturing data.

HSBC's Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index for China, released Monday, showed it fell to 49.2 in May from 50.4 in April, showing a contraction. Official data, released Saturday, say otherwise.

The prospect that the U.S. central bank will turn off its monetary spigot hangs like a specter over this week’s economic reports.

Indians excel at spelling bees -- they won 11 of the past 15 national competitions run by Scripps.

Unemployment remains high across the United States, but President Barack Obama and Congress seem to have forgotten all about it.

The Federal Reserve's advisory council has expressed fears of a "breakout of inflation" and an "unsustainable bubble" in stock and bond markets.

Hoarding of copper by warehouses has distorted prices to new highs, despite a global glut.

Another year, another critical shellacking for M. Night Shyamalan. Following Shyamalan’s dismal reviews for the Will Smith/Jaden Smith actioner “After Earth,” will producers finally stop taking chances on the once-promising auteur?

Centerra Gold of Canada says its gold yields won't be damaged by this temporary shutdown.

One plane was on fire and the other was intact when investigators arrived on the scene in north Phoenix.

The president called on Congress to stop federal student loan interest rates from doubling, setting the stage for a showdown with the GOP.

A British nongovernmental organization documented more than a dozen cases of migrant workers enslaved on Thai fishing boats.