If regulators matter to Apple, it is as a threat to its growth. Except, that is, when it comes to what Steve Jobs likes to call a hobby: Apple TV.
UBS and other investors go to court to try to force U.K. fund manager Reade Griffith to speed up the return of their money.
Google said the Texas attorney general's office is conducting an antitrust review of the Web giant's core search-engine business, another sign of growing government scrutiny of the company.
Washington's response to the country's stubbornly high unemployment rate will depend in part on who wins an increasingly intense debate over its causes.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he envisions two or three more years of combat operations in Afghanistan before the U.S. transitions to an advisory role, a mission likely to last years more.
Goldman Sachs has decided to close its principal-strategies unit, which does its proprietary trading, in the wake of financial-overhaul regulation passed by Congress.
T-Mobile USA is in talks to distribute Huawei Technologies's new Google-powered smartphone this holiday season. The Ideos phone could be priced under $100 in the U.S.
A United Parcel Service Inc.-operated cargo plane, with two crew members aboard, crashed Friday evening on takeoff in Dubai, according to an initial statement from the company. UPS didn't confirm any casualties.
Another unheralded American 18-year-old, Ryan Harrison, is turning heads at the U.S. Open.
Richard Pechter, a director of Finra and NYSE's regulatory arm, said this week that he made an offer for Value Line's troubled mutual-fund business.
The federal government started an investigation into Thursday's fire at Mariner Energy's offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
Campbell Soup quarterly profit rose 64% as the company cut costs, but its U.S. soup sales continued to decline despite efforts to attract consumers with more promotions.
BP disclosed various lessons and capabilities built from trouble-shooting the big oil spill in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
The Motley Fool - Satellite-radio star Howard Stern is negotiating in public again.
Brazil's state-run energy company Petrobras launched the world's largest-ever sale of shares to finance a $224 million, five-year investment program.
Stocks and other growth-sensitive markets, including the euro, got the best news they've had for some time with Friday's better-than-expected U.S. payrolls report for August.
An attack on a Shiite rally killed at least 43 people in southwestern Pakistan, while a suicide bomber targeted a minority Sunni mosque in Peshawar.
U.S. stock futures jumped after job losses slowed more than expected last month, though the unemployment rate edged up.
U.S. payrolls fell by 54,000 in August, less than economists had expected. Private-sector companies added 67,000 jobs. The unemployment rate rose to 9.6%.
Singapore intervened in the foreign-exchange market and Korea resumed its intervention after a two-week break, while Japan has signaled it is weighing entering the market for the first time in six years.
The global dependency on the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries for oil will rise as production by non-OPEC nations falls.
Investors are counting on the August unemployment rate to send a clear signal about the prospect for more Fed policy easing. But they may only hear static.
One of the world's most prospective gold companies, Andean Resources of Australia, has become the subject of a bidding war between two Canadian companies.
Vacationers hustled out of coastal North Carolina ahead of Hurricane Earl, while forecasters predicted the gradually weakening storm would travel next to southern New England.
BP said it has spent around $8 billion in response to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and expects to resume its relief-well drilling shortly.
Toshiba said that it will release by year-end a tablet computer that runs on Google's Android operating system as the company aims to compete with Apple's iPad.
Roche said it has launched a cost-cutting and efficiency plan in the wake of increased price pressures and a series of drug-development setbacks.
Private-equity firm TPG Inc. has sold its remaining stake in Ping An Insurance for $1.16 billion in the latest example of how the U.S. company is reaping profits from its investments in Asia.
Asian stock markets were modestly higher Friday with technology plays leading markets in Tokyo and Seoul. The Nikkei rose 0.6%.
House Republicans are hunting for an election-season middle ground on which they can make promises to voters without providing enough details to be attacked by Democrats.
U.S. News & World Report - The Latte Factor, a term coined (and trademarked) by personal finance guru David Bach, is one of the most talked about concepts in the world of personal finance. But it might be based on faulty math.
The Motley Fool - Shares of Salary.com (Nasdaq: SLRY - News) -- a small provider of human resources applications on the cloud -- soared 43% yesterday, after agreeing to be acquired by larger rival Kenexa (Nasdaq: KNXA - News).
Reuters - U.S. mortgage rates fell in the past week to the latest in a series of record lows as yields on government debt dropped, according to a survey released on Thursday by Freddie Mac, the second-largest U.S. mortgage finance company.
U.S. News & World Report - If you're combining your life with a new spouse, moving from one house to another, or just frustrated with the amount of documentation you have filed (or unfiled) in your basement, it's a good time to simplify your finances. Simplification is not only practical, it is beautiful. This is the concept of kanso, a Japanese aesthetic usually applied to gardens. Through a stretch of the mind, we can apply this beauty to our lives and our finances.
The Motley Fool - When Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A - News) was buying railroad company Burlington Northern last December, Warren Buffett told Matt Rose: "I've seen what's been done here [in the U.S.]. I think I know how the country is going to develop. I think the West is going to do well. I'd rather be in the West than the East. So I really don't have much of a worry about that."
The Motley Fool - In coming up with ways to protect their portfolios, many investors draw on lessons learned from their most recent mistakes. Unfortunately, most people right now are taking the lessons they learned from the 2008 bear market and buying bonds, which could easily prove to be far riskier than they thought.
The Motley Fool - "The American people will never again be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street's mistakes. There will be no more taxpayer-funded bailouts. Period."
AP - NO WAY: Taiwanese regulators have rejected Primus Financial Holdings' planned purchase of AIG's Taiwan life insurance unit.
AP - Taiwanese regulators on Tuesday rejected Primus Financial Holdings' planned purchase of AIG's Taiwan life insurance unit amid concerns that the Cayman Island-based firm may be backed by funds from rival China.
AP - The parents of six deceased U.S. soldiers are suing Prudential Financial, saying it paid paltry interest on military life insurance benefits while keeping more generous interest earnings for itself.
The Motley Fool - The recent pullback in the stock market has many investors running for cover. Meanwhile, fear of an imminent double-dip recession and concerns about renewed pressure in the housing market has pushed bond prices to historic highs, reducing bond yields and creating an income crunch for savers. Throughout 2010, billions of dollars have gone into bond mutual funds, and the trend shows no sign of reversing anytime soon.
AP - WASHINGTON — Commerce Department releases personal income and spending for July, 8:30 a.m.
AP - WASHINGTON — Commerce Department releases personal income and spending for July, 8:30 a.m.
The Motley Fool - For years, Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRK-A - News; NYSE: BRK-B - News) octogenarian co-chairman, has said that Berkshire would one day buy the remaining 20% of Wesco Financial (NYSE: WSC - News) it didn't already own.
Reuters - American International Group Inc has scrapped plans to sell a strategic stake in its Asian life insurance business, AIA, ahead of its initial public offering, a source familiar with the process said on Friday.
Reuters - Bundle.com, an online personal finance site that counts Citigroup Inc among its backers, is unveiling new features to compete in a growing market for Internet banking and budgeting advice, its chief executive said on Thursday.
AP - SLIGHT DECLINE: Real estate data provider CoreLogic says the number of U.S. homes with mortgages that exceed what the properties are worth fell slightly between the second quarter and the first three months of this year. It's the second consecutive quarterly decline.
AP - MORTGAGE DEFAULTS HIGH: One in 10 American households with a mortgage was at risk of foreclosure this summer, and the crisis could worsen if jobs remain scarce.
AP - RATES DIP: The average rate for a 30-year fixed loan fell this week to 4.36 percent, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said. That's the lowest level since the mortgage buyer began tracking rates in 1971.
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