Being put on hold is no fun. But Vodafone Group has little choice when it comes to plans for the company's Indian operations. The Anglo-Dutch telecommunications giant is expected to list its Indian business at some point but said this week ...
MADRID—Bankia SA is planning to ask for €19 billion in financial support from the Spanish government, people familiar with the situation said Friday, in what would represent the largest bank bailout in the country's history.
NEW YORK—A Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director told jurors at the insider-trading trial of ex-Goldman board member Rajat Gupta that he believed discussions by the investment bank's board in June 2008 about possibly acquiring an insurance ...
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Chairman and Chief Executive James Dimon has been invited to appear before a key Senate panel on June 7 to explain what led to his company's $2 billion-plus trading loss.
General Motors Co. said Friday that it failed to disclose in its proxy a $600,000 contract with an ad agency partly owned by the wife of the auto maker's chief financial officer.
Shares in brokerage and clearing firm Penson Worldwide have dropped almost 30% to 21 cents, earlier falling as low as 16 cents. The firm earlier this week disclosed plans to tap $5.5 million in regulatory capital in order to pay down ...
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. made history Friday by attaching the first private spacecraft to the international space station, a move that ultimately could change the economics and politics of U.S. space exploration.
Winners & Losers for the week that was in business and deals, Deal Journal's weekly look back and grading system of some of the biggest stories: The Facebook Edition.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The controversy over Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering touches on language used in regulatory filings called “risk factors.”
"Moonrise Kingdom," the latest feature from offbeat indie director Wes Anderson, tracks the adventures of two precocious tweens—he smokes a pipe; she wears eye shadow. When it opens May 25, it will go head-to-head with "Men in Black 3," a ...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — As IndyCar readies for its biggest weekend of the season at the Indianapolis 500, the sport is seeing a relative boom in business.
New signs of a global slowdown are darkening the economic outlook. On Thursday, the U.S. reported that businesses were slowing their orders of computers, aircraft, machinery and other long-lasting goods. Measures of business sentiment in ...
MUMBAI—Citigroup Inc. is planning to expand its Indian consumer-banking operations by ramping up its credit-card business and adding one million new customers from the urban middle class over the next two to three years.
Talbots Inc.'s shares slumped Friday as the women's retailer was left looking for a new suitor after Sycamore Partners opted not to pursue a takeover.
SINGAPORE—A European Union ban on Iran's oil could have major consequences for European oil companies in Asia, as little-understood provisions in the sanction law could see them facing investigation despite their best efforts to stay legal.
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