Business & Finance


U.K., German and French efforts to stop multinationals from using legal loopholes to shift profits to low-tax countries could get more backing from an OECD report prepared for the G-20.

Japan's premier called for big companies to raise employee wages in a bid to break the cycle of pessimism that has hampered growth, in a new twist to his campaign to end deflation.

OPEC warned that expectations of growth in non-OPEC oil supply this year, seen as essential to meeting global oil demand in the long term, face significant stumbling blocks.

Italian police arrested Finmeccanica's CEO as part of a bribery investigation related to the 2010 sale of helicopters to India by a unit of the defense contractor.

Top UBS executive Carsten Kengeter, who oversaw a period of instability and big losses at the firm's investment bank, is set to resign.

The U.S. has been bolstering purveyors of luxury goods, even as attention has been focused on growth in China.

T. Rowe Price said it wouldn't support Michael Dell's proposal to take Dell Inc. private at the current offer price.

A merger of AMR and US Airways could close the latest chapter of consolidation that has stabilized the U.S. airline industry.

Investigators are examining whether the formation of microscopic structures inside the Boeing Dreamliner's lithium-ion batteries played a role in twin incidents that prompted the fleet to be grounded.

Apple CEO Tim Cook defended the company's distribution of cash to its shareholders and called the proxy fight with an investor a "silly sideshow."

A brewery on the death strip that once bordered the Berlin Wall is being converted to a hub for startup companies, highlighting Berlin's efforts to stoke its burgeoning technology industry.

The U.S. approved Cnooc's $15.1 billion purchase of Canadian oil-sands operator Nexen, clearing the last big hurdle to China's largest overseas acquisition.




France's president laid the groundwork for lowering growth forecasts as the state auditor warned Paris will likely miss this year's deficit targets.

Pope Benedict XVI's plans to resign this month leaves his longtime goal of replenishing Europe's deserted pews in a state of uncertainty.

Obama is expected to prod U.S. lawmakers to take steps to spur the economy in a State of the Union address that is also set to include immigration, gun control, climate change and education.

The number of Chinese tourists traveling to Japan over the Lunar New Year holiday is set to plummet more than 50% from a year earlier amid heightened tension between the two countries.

Indonesia passed a bill that gives the government new powers to cut off lines of terrorist financing, including by freezing bank accounts and seizing assets.

A swimming complex in Kabul offers the slim slice of Afghanistan's population who can afford it the brief opportunity to imagine they aren't living in a war zone.

Turkey said an explosion on its border with Syria that killed 14 people on Monday was a terrorist attack.