The trade deficit unexpectedly narrowed in September as exports rose sharply, suggesting global demand for U.S. goods was holding up despite a debt crisis in Europe.

Private equity firm Carlyle Group LP on Thursday said the United States remained the world's best place to invest, citing low interest rates and the recovering housing market, as it reported a return to profitability in the third quarter.

Apollo Global Management Chief Executive Leon Black said on Wednesday that a U.S. tax break that benefits private equity and venture capital executives could fall victim to deficit reduction efforts after President Barack Obama's re-election.

U.S. consumer credit expanded at a solid pace in September in a hopeful sign for household spending, although Americans appeared to use their credit cards more sparingly, Federal Reserve data showed on Wednesday.

A lawyer for Goldman Sachs urged a U.S. appeals court Wednesday to send a former employee's gender discrimination dispute to arbitration rather than allow her to proceed with a proposed class action.

Penn West Petroleum Ltd shares were down as much as 4.7 percent on Tuesday after the company fired four senior executives, including its chief operating officer.

Stocks climbed on Tuesday, the last day of trading before the election results came to a close, as investors looked forward to a resolution to the drawn-out race for the White House.

British retailer Marks & Spencer Plc believes its costly expansion plan is paying off and winning support from investors even after suffering its second straight drop in first-half earnings.

Stronger-than-expected hiring by U.S. employers in October and a small increase in the jobless rate will have a neutral or insignificant impact on U.S. presidential elections next week, according to most economists surveyed in a Reuters poll on Friday.

U.S. stocks held steady and the dollar edged up on Monday as investors played it safe on the day before Americans choose their president and as Greece headed into two key votes to secure further rescue funds.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc named insurance executive Mark Edward Tucker as an independent director on Monday, expanding its board to a dozen directors, most of whom are independent.

Greek banks will have to issue shares to meet more than half of a 9 percent capital adequacy requirement to be set as part of their recapitalization, sources said, in a move that could help them avoid nationalization.

As the Northeast United States locks down in the path of Hurricane Sandy, the freakishly large tropical storm careening in from the Atlantic, the main impact is likely to be on fuel demand rather than supply.

World shares and commodities fell on Monday as a recent run of downbeat corporate reports cast a shadow over the economic growth outlook and markets awaited the impact of a huge U.S. hurricane.

A $500-million "green jobs" program to train U.S. workers for new jobs and help spark recovery from the great recession has fallen far short of its goals, according to a report from the Labor Department's internal watchdog released on Friday.

Shares on major markets ended little changed on Friday as weak corporate earnings offset better U.S. economic data, though investors remained concerned about slowing global growth.

CBS put Blue Bloods' Jennifer Esposito's character on a leave of absence, after the actress informed management that would only be able to work on "a very limited part-time schedule" due to Celiac disease.

On Sunday, Austrian sky diver Felix Baumgartner broke records for altitude and speed when he jumped from a capsule 128,000 miles from the earth, to land in Roswell, New Mexico. Yes, that Roswell.

In a Maine courtroom today, a state judge said he would not stop the release of more than 100 names of men who frequented Alexis Wright's Zumba Fitness studio in Kennebunk, Maine, where the hot fitness craze got a little too hot: the studio allegedly served as a brothel.

Apple's answer to the Kindle Fire and Nook, the iPad Mini, could be in stores as early as Oct. 23, according to the technology website AllThingsD, as reported by ABC News.

The infamous Casey Anthony who was tried for the murder of her two-year-old daughter Caylee and acquitted in July of 2011 is the subject of a recent lawsuit brought by a Pennsylvania woman who claims Anthony caused her emotional and mental distress and threatened to murder her.

A 29-year-old Zumba Fitness® instructor in Kennebunk, Maine has been arrested for allegedly running a brothel from her dance studio, according to the Associated Press.

According to a recent interview with Twitter's CEO, the microblogging site's focus is on growing its advertising and user base but speculations about an IPO are still irresistible to the media.

Reuters reported today that big private equity firms will bid for Ingham Enterprises, Australasia's largest poultry producer, according to confidential sources.

Simple solutions for common myths about FB's Timeline. A question that is ever-popular in the social media users' minds these days is this: Is there any way to get rid of Facebook's Timeline? The social media site began rolling it out early this year, whether you wanted it or not.

Reuters reported today that following Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's re-election on Sunday, the investment bank J.P. Morgan predicted the country's oil supply will fall to 2.58 million barrels per day (bpd) next year, down from this year's prediction of 2.62 bpd.

The U.S.-based Carlyle Group sold all of its remaining shares in India's HDFC for $831 million on Thursday night, making it the country's fourth larges equity deal for the year, Reuters repored.

Keeping up with the demand for Apple's iPhone 5 continues to create problems for the workers in China's Foxconn factories who make them.

Mitsubishi UFJ Lease is Buying U.S.-based Jackson Square Aviation from Oaktree Capital Group for approximately $130 billion.

China's 7 Days Group Holdings, owner of the country's second largest hotel chain, received a buyout offer to go private last week from a consortium that includes the Carlyle Group, Sequoia Capital China and the company's co-chairmen Boquan He and Nanyan Zheng.