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Four hedge funds appealed on Tuesday a ruling in the Washington Mutual Inc bankruptcy that found viable claims they had engaged in insider trading, an opinion one fund called a gross injustice.

A look at who could provide an offensive spark for the Titans after they lost their most productive offensive weapon this past weekend.

Reaction to the Icahn rumor may reflect the immense amount of investor frustration over a company that has rapidly lost its way.

Health care costs rose sharply this year, further underscoring the problem of uninsured and underinsured Americans, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.

The brunt of job cuts will likely occur in Europe and The United States.

Gold prices are plunging in September partly because struggling Eurozone sovereign states are dumping [it] in the open market, speculated Michael Pento, president of Pento Portfolio Strategies.

Gold surged nearly 4 percent Tuesday on bargain hunting and increased Asian purchases of bullion, both of which were aided by a sharply lower U.S. dollar.

A Libyan commander leading the attack on Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte said on Tuesday he was in talks with elders inside the city about a truce, but the head of another anti-Gaddafi unit rejected negotiations.

The long-beleaguered search engine company Yahoo! Inc. would probably be better off selling off pieces of itself rather than submit to a takeover in whole, given that the separate segments of the firm probably have more value than the sum of the individual parts. However, any such potential transaction won’t happen overnight.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc may cut $1.45 billion in expenses by year's end, $250 million more than it indicated in July, in a move that could lead to more job cuts, according to The New York Times.

It's hard to be upbeat about gold these days, but technical analysts are keeping their faith in the long-term bull run -- just barely.

Despite Chris Christie, and those who sometimes speak for him, reiterating his line of not running for president, that, “no means no, and he means it,” that, “short of suicide” he won’t be doing it, speculation has renewed.

Others have pondered that perhaps Warren Buffett – who's now 81 years old – is simply preparing for his exit and planning to bequeath his legendary company’s management to younger warriors.

European government officials and financial institutions are starting to make dramatic steps needed to manage their way through a debt crisis that threatens to drag the world economy into recession.

One thing is clear. There's nothing like a gold standard when it comes to analyzing the way the precious metal prices have behaved in the past three months. Gold's decade-long bull run peaked in the last three months when the prices went up by around 30 percent.

Spot gold rallied more than 1 percent and U.S. gold futures as much as 4 percent on Tuesday, snapping four consecutive sessions of losses as a weaker dollar helped battered commodities stage a comeback.

India's commodity exchanges are poised for steady growth over the next few years after annual turnover more than quintupled to $2.5 trillion since futures trading started in 2003, but political hurdles hinder more dramatic development.

Gold tumbled nearly 4 percent Monday, hit by momentum selling and heavy liquidation by commodity hedge funds triggered by another sharp margin hike.

As noted earlier, if Sprint (S) snares Apple’s iPhone 5 this autumn, it could give the cell phone service provider a fighting chance versus AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ). And that would bode well for Sprint's stock.

Protesters leading a massive public sector strike that has caused power cuts, delayed trains and shut schools threatened on Monday to shut down business in Hyderabad for a day later this week.

Shares of Apple Inc (AAPL.O) suppliers rebounded on Tuesday after heavy losses in the previous session as investors remain confident of continued demand for the hot-selling devices of the California-based company.