"The Wolverine" could still be "the best debut this summer." "The Wolverine" opened with estimates for earnings over the weekend dropped to US$63 million, which was US$2 million short of Fox's estimates of US$65 million.

Fiscal plans for the United States and Japan escaped mention during the recent 2-day meeting of G20 central bank governors and finance ministers.

The latest X-Men spinoff, "The Wolverine", was right on track with just US$2 million below estimates.

Joshua Partners's precision machining platform company,Precision Engineered Technologies,LLC. acquires Imperial Machine and Tool Company.

Regions Financial Corp's earnings for the second quarter showed a 9% fall as its costs increase.

California-based startup company Zenefits has secured US $2.1 million seed capital from a round led by Maverick Capital and Venrock.

Unipex subsidiary Lucas Meyer Cosmetics recently purchased cosmetic ingredients and IP rights from Avrio-backed Biopharmacopae.

Chicago Cubs' outfielder Alfonso Soriano completed his trade to Yankees after waiving the no-trade clause.

HomeStreet Bank announced that they have acquired Fortune Bank for US$27.0 million and Yakima National Bank for US$10.3 million.

The European Union weighs options regarding the military wing of Hezbollah as Britain persuaded its peers to blacklist the Shi'ite Muslim group's military wing.

America's Motor City files for bankruptcy due to the decline in population and financial mismanagement.

Shanghai Greenland Group Co. announced its acquisition of a stake in a project by L.A.-based pension fund California State Teachers’ Retirement System.

The Kolkata-based company is set to invest US $4.4 billion for a business venture on hotels. ITC Ltd is planning to invest US $4. 4 billion (INR 260 billion) to expand its business interests into the hotel industry.

Private equity firm Graphite Capital and Hawskmoor chain of steakhouse enter into an agreement regarding a buyout valued at US $62 million.

New York City Pension pledges US$ 500 million each to Apollo Global Management and CVC Capital New York City Public Pension Funds acquired their largest commitments to date to private equity via marquee funds From CVC Capital Partners and Apollo Global Management.

Ohio Transmission partners with private investor Frontenac Company. Private equity firm Frontenac Company invested an undisclosed amount on Ohio Transmission Corporation, said the latter on Friday.

Shares for Jet Airways increased dramatically after speculation of FIPB approval of Jet-Etihad deal surfaced.

JP Morgan explores options to sell trading and physical commodities businesses. JP Morgan Chase & Co announced that they plan to step out of the business of trading and owning physical commodities which range from oil to metals.

Publicis Groupe SA and Omnicom Group are paving the way for the advertising industry's biggest joint venture.

Russian tycoon Alexander Nesis has sold around US$1 billion worth of shares in Uralkali to fund new projects.

The French conglomerate’s efforts to revamp its diversified portfolio begins with the sale of its stake in Activision Blizzard worth US $8.2 billion.

China Investment Corp, which has US $49 billion investment from the government, posed a 10.6% return of investment from its overseas ventures.

Indian IT services provider Wipro predicts profit increase for the next quarter. Indian IT company Wipro announced its prediction for an upsurge of demand for its consulting and outsourcing services, following the 11% increase in quarterly profit due largely to a series of high-earning contracts.

LearnVest gets US $16 million in its latest financing round led by Accel Partners. Online financial management firm, LearnVest. com, revealed on Friday that it closed US $16.

Handy Hardware gets help from Littlejohn & Co. as the private equity firm takes the reins of the company's acquisition and refinancing.

New Anglo American boss, Mark Cutifani, outlines an aggressive cost-cutting plan to reverse the mining company's poor performance.

Private equity firm Cinven seeks the help of banks to refinance buyout of Host Europe Group. Cinven has started approaching banks for debt proposals to help in refinancing the firm's GBP 438 million (US$671 million) buyout of Host Europe Goup, an internet domain and hosting company.

Social games provider Zynga Inc loses investors and revenue after announcing abandonment of real-money gambling plans.

Oracle signed a nine-year deal with Salesforce to boost its efforts on cloud computing and hardware enterprise.

Intelligent Mechatronic Systems received CAD 4 million investment from BEST Funds. BEST Funds, a venture capital firm based in Toronto, invested CAD 4 million in Intelligent Mechatronic Systems Inc.