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Data will include manufacturing and construction reports and the monthly unemployment figures, and automakers and retailers will release sales numbers for September.

HONG KONG/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - At the Happy Community housing development in Beijing, China's largest property developer is setting aside 24,000 square meters (258,000 sq ft) for active seniors to test whether this rapi...

QINGHAI, LEDU COUNTY, China (Reuters) - Eighty-year-old Chinese farmer Guo Shuhe receives a state pension equivalent to just $9 a month, not enough to buy a month worth of groceries, but enough it seems, to risk punching...

BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - The euro zone will not survive in its current form and one or possibly two countries will be forced to leave the currency bloc because they will be unable to meet their commitments, Slovak Prime Mi...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Shell's Nigerian unit shut its Bonny oil pipeline and deferred 150,000 barrels per day of production on Sunday after oil thieves caused a fire, the company said.

(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc shares could rise at least 25 percent in the next year as capital markets improve, Barron's said on Sunday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Saks Inc opened its first Saks Fifth Avenue store in Kazakhstan on Sunday, as the retailer seeks to tap a growing appetite for luxury in emerging markets.

Dani Pedrosa is still in the hunt for his first ever MotoGP world title after claiming victory in front of his home fans in Aragon.

Many people used to think of layaway as that relic of the past that your grandmother used during the Great Depression. But the weak economy and  an increasing interest in keeping down credit card debt has pushed the h...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street will open October with a busy week, highlighted by low expectations for global manufacturing data and the U.S. jobs report. Any positive surprises may help lift the market.

Wall Street will open October with a busy week, highlighted by low expectations but that could set the stage for positive surprises that help lift the market.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks have more than doubled since the financial crisis and are closing in on a five-year high, but many Main Street investors have been absent from the party - especially those with the least saved...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - France and Germany have agreed a common strategy for the planned $45 billion merger of Airbus parent EADS and Britain's BAE Systems , a German magazine reported on Sunday.

VARNA, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Bulgaria pledged to make up for delays in connecting its gas network with neighboring Balkan countries and hopes to have links with neighboring Greece and Turkey by the end of next year, the e...

KABUL (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp, the world's biggest non-state oil company, has not yet accepted an offer to look over a new Afghan oil concession in the country's north, possibly indicating a fading appetite to inves...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fund managers are increasingly eyeing riskier exotic assets, some of which haven't been in fashion since the financial crisis, as yields on traditional investments get close to rock bottom.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - When it comes to U.S. deficit reduction, many investors would rather Congress "kick the can down the road" again than let 2013 start with a blast of fiscal austerity not seen since the Vietnam War.

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