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Wynn Macau, run by gambling mogul Steve Wynn, has raised .6 billion in its Hong Kong initial public offering, after shares priced at the top end of their expected range, according to press reports. More
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Morgan Stanley Chief Executive John J. Mack, who will be stepping down at the end of the year, is calling for a single regulator to oversee financial institutions worldwide. More
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British Airways’ chief is holding out hope that the British carrier will be able to sew up a deal to buy Iberia before the end of the year, as well as make an offer for BMI, The Financial Times reported. More
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Benchmark Capital, the venture firm whose investments include Twitter, has hired Marten Mickos, the former chief executive of MySQL, as an entrepreneur-in-residence. More
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CIT Group, the troubled lender that is reportedly in talks with its creditors over a restructuring plan, is considering an offer of financing from Citigroup and Barclays, Bloomberg News said. More
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Pfizer has received regulatory approval from both Chinese and Australian antitrust authorities for its billion buyout of rival Wyeth. More
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Man Group, the world’s largest listed hedge fund firm, said slowing outflows helped lift assets to an estimated .8 billion at end-September, at the top end of forecasts, boosting its shares. More
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Doubt has been cast on a report that hedge fund Paulson & Co. wants to combine cash-strapped lender CIT Group with a Paulson-affiliated bank once known as IndyMac. More
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A four-bedroom house on a golf course in Palm Springs, Calif., and homes in Lumberville, Pa., and Tarpley, Tex.
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The housing market in Quebec has seen steady growth over the past decade.
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Some office buildings in New York are landscaping the roof, and offering access to all the employees in the building.
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Bob and Donna Lieb decided to build a home in the forested hills above them in Begur, Spain.
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When a developer proposed transforming the Kingsbridge Armory into a shopping mall with a new supermarket, an existing, smaller supermarket chain felt threatened.
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A tsunami generated by an undersea earthquake has killed at least 89 people and wiped out several villages on the islands of American Samoa and Samoa.
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The group behind the assault in November 2008 has the capability and intent to strike India again, intelligence files show.
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The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday rejected two proposals to add a government-run health insurance plan to the health care proposal.
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The number of people being tested for H.I.V. more than doubled in dozens of countries last year, leading to a major increase in those being treated.
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The economy sank at a pace of 0.7 percent in the spring, a better-than-expected performance that provided more evidence that the recession was ending.
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A new study is the league’s first public affirmation of any connection regarding cognitive decline among players.
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While the similarities between 2002, when faulty intelligence estimates on Iraq were produced, and 2009 are unmistakable, the differences are profound.
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A powerful earthquake struck off the city of Padang on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, killing at least 21 people and trapping thousands under rubble, an official said.
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Israel said it would release 20 Palestinian women from its jails in exchange for a videotape of a captured Israeli soldier that would prove that he is alive.
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Typhoon Ketsana headed west toward Laos after battering Vietnam with powerful winds and heavy rain, leaving behind blue skies but dangerously rising flood waters.
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Banks still have to write off .5 trillion in bad loans or worthless securities, the International Monetary Fund estimated in a new report.
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The suspect in a fatal stabbing outside Manhattan’s main post office committed suicide in Philadelphia.
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Americans’ worries about job security flared up in September, causing a widely watched barometer of consumer confidence to dip unexpectedly and raising more concern about the upcoming… More
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(Kyodo) _ New York stocks moved moderately lower Tuesday morning amid renewed pessimism over the economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which gained 124.17 points Monday, fell… More
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A federal appeals court has ruled that members of the military can be required to be vaccinated against anthrax. The U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a lower court’s decision… More
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