On Friday, as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met European Union officials to discuss a long-pending free-trade agreement, health care activists and HIV-positive people took to the streets in New Delhi.
If the Australian government wants to guarantee a return to surplus, there's roughly 6 billion Australian dollars (US$6.44 billion) in their coffers targeted for mortgage-backed bond deals that have possibly overstayed their use.
President Barack Obama's budget proposal Monday will offer several measures to trim the federal deficit in the next 10 years. But it would leave largely unchanged the biggest drivers of future government spending: the Medicare, Medicaid and ...
By Natasha Brereton-Fukui of Dow Jones Newswires SINGAPORE - Reliance Industries Ltd.'s new US$1 billion 10-year dollar bond strengthened in initial trading Friday, in a positive sign for the many hopeful Indian debt issuers waiting in the ...
Customers have a habit of slipping through your fingers when, instead of offering innovative products, you seek to keep them locked into old ones. That is a pricey lesson Oracle is learning.
European leaders' laser-like focus on muddling through has brought the euro zone this far into 2012 without disaster. Assuming the new bailout and debt-restructuring agreement for Greece are finally agreed on, the biggest near-term risk to ...
Barclays PLC has capped the cash component of bonuses at £65,000 (US$103,000) people familiar with the matter said. Barclays is responding to a difficult environment for investment banks and intense political scrutiny of pay in Britain.
Deutsche Bank analysts reckon BHP Billiton's harvest of several non-core assets could bank the world's biggest miner up to US$10 billion. Though the broker notes BHP will be in no hurry to sell, the miner has emphasized its focus on large, ...
Shelling out a $25 billion penalty is certainly painful. But it is something bank-stock investors may be able to grin and bear. The reason: The foreclosure-abuse settlement agreed on Thursday among banks, state attorneys general and the ...
In the Delaware Court of Chancery, Chancellor Leo Strine has made quite the name for himself. A judge in the middle of some of the biggest corporate cases, Strine's opinions have been widely parsed and cited. And the judge has been known to ...
The latest project of Hyatt hotel heir Anthony Pritzker is a 49,300-square-foot building designed by an architecture firm in Paris. It involves a small army of specialized consultants and boasts amenities like a bowling alley, hairdressing ...
Rivals in the world of online videogames, Hasbro Inc. and Zynga Inc. are becoming partners in the physical realm of toys and board games. Under a pact announced Thursday, Hasbro, the maker of Scrabble and Monopoly, will create games and toys ...
Kader Arif was the European Parliament's rapporteur for the controversial ACTA agreement until he resigned on the day the agreement was signed. The Wall Street Journal Europe emailed Mr. Arif for his views. Unfortunately his reply came too ...
ISTANBUL -- It's something of an open secret in Turkey that the government has been seriously considering moving the central bank from Ankara to Istanbul, but the small print of a government document this week suggests the move could come ...
The gritty streets of Berlin are a far cry from the glamour and glitz of Cannes or Venice. And that's just the way the directors of the Berlin Film Festival like it.
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