The halt of its Pascua-Lama project as well as gold price decline had forced Barrick Gold to sell of shares to raise much needed funds.

For an undisclosed amount, Wells Fargo settles with FHFA on issue of faulty mortgages issyes In an agreement to settle claims with the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Wells Fargo agreed to pay less than USD1 billion to resolve the issue on the bank's alleged knowledge of the faulty nature of mortgage bonds sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Pumpmaker ITT is expanding both on the shareholder value side and on the operations side as demand for pumps had increased by half in the third quarter alone.

Without government backing, Citigroup is now offering mortgage backed securities backed by prime jumbo mortgages mortgages from private sources.

The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported on Thursday. The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported on Thursday.

To gain foothold for mobile broadband adoption in Europe, AT&T is seeking to acquire major telecoms firms such as Vodafone in the near future.

Denmark's Waoo!, Sweden's Com Hem and the UK's Virgin Media are the latest additions to the Netflix galaxy of streaming partners.

Novaquest Capital Management lands USD459 million for its Fund III. NovaQuest Capital Management had announced the closure of NovaQuest Pharma Opportunities Fund III LP.

Volkswagen's sales in the US remained a mystery to its manufacturers. Volkswagen AG (VW), the world's third largest automaker in the world, is disappointed with its US sales, according to Bloomberg report.

Art aficionados would have a chance to acquire a piece of SAC Capital Advisors owner and billionaire Steven Cohen to be sold next week at auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's.