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U.S. home price gains continued to slow in October, but San Francisco, Denver and Tampa saw prices rise faster compared with a year ago.

Overnight rates have grown to 18 percent, indicating that financial institutions are anxious about even lending to each other.

Asian shares got off to a lacklustre start on Tuesday, as a sharp selloff in commodities and political uncertainty inGreece made investors less willing to take risks in the final trading days of 2014.

Despite two disasters this year that slammed Malaysia Airlines shares, they rebounded. Could AirAsia shares do likewise?

The S&P 500 and Russell 2000 closed at record highs Monday, despite political uncertainties in Greece weighing on the global stock market.

The Dow fluctuated Monday as economists weighed the impact of political turmoil in Greece and declining global energy prices.

Japanese stocks turned negative on Monday after the health ministry announced a suspected case of the deadly Ebola virus, spooking investors.

AirAsia's stock fell nearly 8 percent on Monday, making it the biggest one-day drop in more than three years for the company.

Chinese industrial profits dropped 4.2 percent in November to 676.12 billion yuan ($108.85 billion), official data showed on Saturday.

Doctors in Houston have decided to keep former U.S. President George H.W. Bush in the hospital for a fourth night since his bout with shortness of breath, though his condition has improved and he "remains in high spirits," his spokesman said Friday.

The Dow recorded a new all-time high for the 38th time this year Friday as Wall Street capped off a record-breaking week.

American, Chinese and domestic phone makers target the subcontinent as carriers upgrade to high-speed networks.

Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said his ministry had recalculated its budget forecasts to take into account oil prices at $60 a barrel.

Russia's ruble rose on Friday to its strongest levels in more than three weeks in a sharp rebound from its recent all-time lows.

Japanese annual core consumer inflation slowed for a fourth straight month in November largely due to sliding oil prices.

The ruble plunged to all-time lows last week on heavy falls in the price of oil and Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis.

The deal with Sumitomo Mitsui will include the transfer of accounts worth about $21 billion.

Super Saturday - the last pre-Christmas Saturday, which fell on Dec. 20 this year - failed to make up for spotty performance this season.

The Dow closed at a new all-time record Wednesday for the 37th time this year as Santa Claus came to town.

The former New Jersey governor's bankrupt firm has been slapped with $1.2 billion in restitution and a $100 million penalty.

Narendra Modi is pushing ahead on key reforms with an executive order after opposition parties stalled parliament over an issue about religion.

Russia will take on credit risk for firms, whose foreign debt obligations have shot up in ruble terms because of the currency's sharp slide.

RBS launched an internal review into its FX activities after it was one of six banks fined a combined $4.3 billion last month.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet resigned on Wednesday, setting the stage for him to launch a new government with a defense minister whose support for Japan having a stronger pre-emptive strike capability could rile China.

Two-factor authentication is easy to set up, but one of the largest banking institutions in the world simply never did it.

Fresh economic data on the strengthening U.S. economy sent the blue-chip index into the stratosphere on Tuesday.

The final revision surpassed economists expectations for the economy to grow at a 4.3 percent annual pace.

China's private sector suitors are set to drive another strong year of Asian mergers and acquisitions in 2015.

Oil prices could begin finding a new equilibrium by the end of 2015, even in the absence of any production cuts by OPEC.