Amgen Inc. might announced the agreement to acquire Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. for USD 125 per share piece as soon as Monday.

Infosys Vice President and Financial Services Head for the Americas Sudhir Chaturvedi announced resignation following a previous exit of the company's head of global sales, Basab Pradhan.

The Reserve Bank of India would scrutinize pending foreign deals after the steep fall in rupee's value.

The number of Americans who filed for jobless benefit claims fell to a nearly six year low while US manufacturing activity increased this month.

All trading on Nasdaq were halted last Thursday after the stock exchange encountered a technical issue during midday.

Chinese regulators sought confessions from foreign companies regarding any committed antitrust violations and warned them about hiring external lawyers to fight the said accusations.

Bloomberg LP said that it would appoint an ombudsman that would create a task force how news was derived from sources by each company journalist.

A lot of Barrick Gold Corp investors had been in doubt about the direction the company is headed and the role of CEO Peter Munk who was once seen as a visionary man in the gold sector.

Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer announced leaving the company within 12 months which also left the software maker in woes to find a replacement.

Atlas Elektronik and Rheinmetall Defence Electronics were raided by German authorities in relation to bribery accusations on a submarine equipment order.

Sources revealed that France-based Societe Generale would be issuing a USD 300 million Islamic bond program in Malaysia.

Agustin Carstens, Governor of the Mexican central bank, asked the US Federal Reserve to clarify its plans for the reduction of its monthly bond purchases.

The presence of wild pigs had become a huge problem in the United States. Agriculture authorities in the US said wild pigs had become a tremendous problem in the country.

Banks were prompted to look at their tradition of "client hires" as the SEC deepened its investigation of JPMorgan's hiring of two Chinese nationals.

Public labor unions asked a US court to throw out Detroit's bankruptcy filing on various grounds.

A recovery in the US housing market lifted the sales and earnings of Home Depot. Home Depot Inc gained from the rebound experienced in the US housing market.

Bethany McLean of Reuters wrote that it would be a challenge to remove government sponsored enterprises from the US mortgage market.

Eurozone indicators and US trends point to a recovery in the global economy. Positive results from business surveys conducted in the Euro Zone as well as encouraging trends in the US all point to better prospects for the global economy.

A federal judge allowed the lawsuit filed by the Justice Department against a unit of Bank of America to proceed by endorsing a broad interpretation of the FIRREA.

The European Union said it would study the possibility of using economic pressure to end the bloodshed in Egypt.

President Obama met with regulators of the US financial markets to discuss their progress on the implementation of the 2010 Wall Street Reform Law.

Rexnord Aerospace announced acquisition for Micro-Precision Technology assets that would allow the two companies to expand their portfolio..

Wells Fargo said it had intended to expand its fund services clients in the Asian region by as much as 20% a year.

Al Jazeera America filed a lawsuit against AT&T for terminating their contract unfairly. Al Jazeera America filed a case against AT&T for unfairly terminating their Affiliation Agreement.

A federal judge upheld a jury decision against Marvell Technology on the patent infringement case filed Carnegie Mellon University.

The sales of US homes unexpectedly fell in July that had caused the US dollar to plunge against the Euro.

Argentina lost an appeal in a 2nd district circuit court in New York and deemed to wait until the US Supreme Court had finished reviewing their case.

Time Warner Cable offered free antennas for its cable subscribers after CBS had shut down cable programs

Mt. Gox's financial worries further increased after the US Department of Homeland Security took USD2.9 million from its Dwolla account and another USD2.1 million worth of frozen assets from the company's Wells Fargo accounts.

HopeFed Bancorp Inc. announced today that it had signed a Mutual Termination Agreement to end a previous merger contract with Sumner Bank & Trust of Gallatin Tennessee.