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India's ONGC in Talks With Russia

18 min 26 sec ago
India's state-run Oil & Natural Gas Corp. is in talks with Russian oil majors OAO Gazprom, OAO Rosneft and Sistema to explore oil and gas opportunities in Russia.

Pink Floyd Wins Downloads Suit

1 hour 54 min ago
Britain's High Court has ordered record company EMI to stop selling downloads of Pink Floyd tracks individually rather than as part of the band's original albums.

Google Nears Decision on China Censoring

2 hours 5 min ago
Google could stop censoring its Web-search results in China within weeks, said people familiar with the matter, but the company isn't likely to withdraw from the country entirely.

Examiner: Lehman Torpedoed Lehman

2 hours 42 min ago
A federal judge released a scathing report on Lehman's collapse that raps executives, auditor Ernst & Young and banks for lapses that sparked bankruptcy.

LibertyPointe: 27th Bank Failure of Year

3 hours 20 min ago
The New York bank was shut by regulators, making it the first to go down in the nation's financial capital since the start of the recent crisis.

Buffett's Pay: Steady at $175,000

3 hours 21 min ago
Berkshire Hathway. kept Chairman Warren E. Buffett's total compensation at $175,000 in 2009, in line with his relatively modest pay over the years. His company stake, however, is in the billions.

Data Theft Hits HSBC Clients

3 hours 37 min ago
HSBC said a former employee stole data on about 24,000 accounts in its Swiss private bank that wound up in the hands of French authorities.

Farallon Regroups After Knockdown

3 hours 48 min ago
Farallon Capital is shrinking and reorganizing as the giant hedge-fund firm emerges from the rockiest period in its 24-year history.

AIG Workers to Give Up $45 Million to Uncle Sam

4 hours 13 min ago
The resolution comes after months of discussion with Kenneth Feinberg. And GMAC's chief may not get any 2010 compensation.

Citi Says It Is Poised For Sustained Profits

5 hours 12 min ago
Citi's chief said the bank is poised to return to "sustained profits" after being kept afloat by government support during the market meltdown.

Hearst Tries Hand at Apps

5 hours 40 min ago
Publishing company Hearst is jumping into the business of developing software applications, or "apps," for the iPhone, targeting information for music, sports and food fans.

Gamble on Financial Overhaul

5 hours 57 min ago
The White House's yearlong effort to rewrite financial regulations risked running aground after Sen. Dodd broke off bipartisan negotiations and announced plans to push ahead without GOP support.

U.S. Weighs Stricter Car-Safety Rules

6 hours 18 sec ago
U.S. auto-safety regulators are considering new standards for car brakes, accelerator pedals and "black boxes" that record crash data, the Obama administration's top highway-safety official told Congress.

NYSE Questions Black & Decker

6 hours 3 min ago
Back & Decker has landed in trouble with the NYSE over how its board determined the independence of a director who owns a real estate development with the tool maker's CEO.

Labor Tensions Threaten Airline Recovery

6 hours 15 min ago
Increasingly turbulent labor negotiations are threatening to knock U.S. airlines off their recovery path just as the battered industry starts to emerge from a stiff recession.

BB&T to Pay Tax for Offshore Enterprise

6 hours 16 min ago
BB&T Corp.'s use of an opaque offshore-tax enterprise will cost the U.S. bank nearly $1 billion.

CBOE Parent Files $300 Million IPO

6 hours 17 min ago
CBOE Holdings moved ahead with plans for a long-delayed initial public offering, becoming the last large member-owned U.S. financial exchange to go down the public route.

Exxon Output Gains Pose Risks

6 hours 22 min ago
The U.S. energy giant known for its heady profits is forecasting its energy output will begin to expand, but the new production comes at the risk of lower profit margins.

Air China to Raise $820 Million

6 hours 25 min ago
The carrier plans to use the proceeds from the share sale to supplement its working capital.

Smithfield Returns to Profit

6 hours 30 min ago
Smithfield Foods posted its first quarterly profit in more than a year as losses narrowed sharply at its hog operations.