HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc removed a failed blowout preventer from atop its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well on Friday afternoon, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment fell for a third straight month in August, but the drop was far less than expected ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks jumped and commodities rallied on Friday after data showed U.S. job losses were less than expected ...

HONG KONG/MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Chinese officials have ordered state companies to meet investment bankers to explore ways ...

LONDON (Reuters) - With little fanfare, equity markets have started to rally, investors have become sated with government ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Private equity firm Montagu is gearing up to raise its next fund after filling investors' pockets with ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's leading share index hit a near four-month closing high on Friday after a better-than-expected ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Moving swiftly to wind up nationalised Anglo Irish Bank could cost 70 billion euros (58 billion pounds) ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone retail sales increased for a third successive month in July, offering more signs that consumers ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British service sector activity grew last month at its slowest pace since April 2009, with a marked fall ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Banks have acknowledged they need to be more open about the size of their bonus pools and the methodology ...

LONDON (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings , Europe's biggest bank, warned that Britain's big banks could move overseas if a government ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Metro Bank, Britain's first new high street retail bank in more than 100 years, said on Friday it was ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - The head of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision urged emerging market economies on Friday to adopt ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Customers of John Lewis are showing few signs of reining in spending in the face of prospective tax rises ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Friday offered a rare glimpse into its foreign exchange reserves, confirming that they are overwhelmingly ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury is concerned about how many foreign investors it should allow to buy big stakes in General ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment likely fell for a third straight month in August as more temporary census jobs ended ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - Germany has not reached agreement with the Basel committee members on the definition of certain types of ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Barclays Capital has hired Jon Pratt to head its debt capital markets business as lender Barclays Plc ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Oil exploration and production company Kosmos, the operator of Ghana's Jubilee oil field, is considering ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co won the bidding war to buy data storage company 3PAR Inc for $2.4 billion (1.55 billion ...

TORONTO/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese and other investors have approached at least one big Canadian pension manager about ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Up to five JPMorgan proprietary metals traders in London left the company this week, including former ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union finance ministers are unlikely to decide anytime soon to cut the number of European seats ...