Blow to Goldman’s efforts to put the high-profile fraud case behind it following the bank’s settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission probe in July for $550m Read More →

The Dow rose 46.32 points as an easing of anxiety about Europe offset mixed signals on the domestic economy from the White House and the Fed. Read More →

Oracle said it will pay Mark Hurd, its new co-president, an annual base salary of $950,000 and be eligible for up to a $10 million bonus in the current fiscal year.  Read More →

Ireland's government moved to reassure anxious investors by announcing it will split nationalized lender Anglo Irish Bank in a bid to contain the impact of the bank's bailout on the country's economy. Read More →

Lockheed Martin said more than 600 executives, or one-fourth of the eligible total, applied to accept financial incentives to leave the company.  Read More →

Canada's Anatolia Minerals Development Ltd. and Australia's Avoca Resources Ltd. have agreed to merger in a deal that will create a gold company with a market value of some $2 billion. Read More →

[at MarketWatch] - Chilean equities rise Wednesday, outperforming their regional rivals after the country s central bank raised its outlook for gross domestic product growth this year. Also, one analyst sees more pressure ahead for shares of Brazilian oil giant Petrobras. Read More →

The Irish government has sought to bring to a close the costly bail-out of Anglo Irish Bank with the decision to formally separate the bank’s troubled property loans from itscustomer deposits Read More →

[DailyFX] - Intensely choppy forex market price action has made short-term US Dollar forecasts especially difficult, but evidence of sentiment extremes in the Japanese Yen suggests that the USDJPY may soon reverse. Read More →

[AP] - THE TREND: The U.S. dollar is trading near a 15-year low against the yen as investors continue to see the Japanese currency as a safe haven for their money amid worries about the U.S. economy. Read More →