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It looks like the yet-unannounced 7.85-inch iPad Mini is finally getting some renewed attention, now that we’re in the month that the device was expected to launch (October) and now that we have a new video showing a mock-up of the tablet’s alleged design.

Weaker commercial and government construction spending offset gains in residential construction spending in August.

Transocean Ltd, Deutsche Bank AG, Barclays Plc, Smith & Nephew Plc, Facebook Inc, Telefonica S.A., Fifth Third Bancorp and Quality Systems Inc. are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Monday.

The U.S. stock index futures point to a higher open Monday ahead of the Institute of Supply Management’s (ISM) Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index data.

Asian stock markets were mixed Monday as the weak economic reports from China and Japan increased the concerns over the global growth slowdown.

European markets rose Monday as investor sentiment turned positive with expectations that Spain would soon seek help to reduce its increasing debt burden.

Crude oil prices declined in Asia Monday as weak economic reports from China and Japan dampened sentiment.

China's manufacturing activity in September continued to remain in the phase of contraction, increasing the concerns over the slowdown in the economic growth of the world's second largest economy.

Japan's Nikkei Stock Average fell Monday as investor confidence was weighed down by the rising concerns about the worsening global economic conditions following the disappointing data which showed the weakening Japanese business conditions and Chinese manufacturing activity.

In dueling Sunday talk-show turns, Chris Christie and Paul Ryan both loyally supported Mitt Romney, but had little else in common.

The Department of Finance Canada accidentally began running advertisements this week on The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing site with a long history of legal trouble because of its hosting of copyright-infringing BitTorrents.

Poland was the only European Union nation to make it through the recession without seeing its economy shrink. Can it keep this pace up?

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Asian stock markets ended mixed last week as concerns over the euro zone crisis and Chinese economic growth weighed on the sentiment. The ambitious Spanish budget and hopes of stimulus measures from China lifted market sentiment during the second half and limited losses for the week.

The top after-market NYSE gainers Friday were Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund, Health Net Inc, New Oriental Education & Tech Group, Office Depot and Louisiana-Pacific Corp. The top after-market NYSE losers were American Reprographics Co, MEMC Electronic Materials, Rogers Communication, Edwards Lifesciences Corp and Anworth Mortgage Asset Corp.

The top after-market Nasdaq gainers Friday were Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc, Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Mattress Firm Holding Corp, MCG Capital Corporation and Layne Christensen Company. The top after-market Nasdaq losers were Allied Healthcare Products, JAKKS Pacific Inc, Kandi Technologies Corp, Kayak Software Corporation and Savient Pharmaceuticals.

Asian markets were mixed in the week as investors maintained a cautious mode waiting to find if the debt crisis in the euro zone, which is weakening the global economic growth, will undermine the stimulus measures announced by policy makers around the world.

Women constitute the majority sex in Egypt and played key roles in its revolution. But their government appears to have cast them aside.

The world's third-largest brewery won a bid to acquire Asia Pacific Breweries Ltd.

Results from a "stress test" of the beleaguered Spanish banking system gave markets a breather Friday. Still, risks abound.

The great apes of Africa face a dire future as human activities have sharply reduced their available habitat.

Indian stocks soar to a 14-month high after the government stunned markets in mid-September with a slew of aggressive steps to revive the economy.

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Facebook's (Nasdaq: FB) botched IPO hurt tech stocks, but Palo Alto Networks (Nasdaq: PANW) shined with Trulia (Nasdaq: TRLA).

The euro zone's largest and strongest economy, Germany, is showing signs of weakness as exports fall.

A three-year-old lawsuit over Bank of America's purchase of Merrill Lynch will be settled by Bank of America paying $2.43 billion.

Conservatives call Spain's new budget one for "crisis," while opposition Socialists deride it as one for a "depression."

The proposed 75% top tax rate, up from 48%, will affect approximately 30,000 French citizens, or just 0.46% of the population.