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One of the biggest payoffs from Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. going public will belong to Japan's Masayoshi Son. The Japanese businessman, founder and CEO of SoftBank, invested $20 million in Alibaba 14 years ago. With the ...

FedEx is changing the way it charges to ship bulky packages, jolting e-commerce companies with price increases for delivering items as diverse as diapers, shoes and paper towels.

Time Warner will spin off its magazine department into a separate company, Time Inc., on June 6, the company announced Thursday. Time Inc. will be wholly owned by its shareholders and trade on the New York Stock Exchange...

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Two weeks ago French cable company, Numericable Group (NUM.PA), raised $11 billion dollars in the high yield or “junk bond” market.  Investor hunger for this offering was so strong that the company raised $2.8 billi...

If the Indian stock market is doing worse than its peers, where is the Modi wave in the markets?

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EFG Asset Management's head of research on the tasks ahead for India's next prime minister and the dangers of a slowdown in the pace of reforms

Cardinal Health approved a 13 percent increase in the company's quarterly dividend to $0.3425 per share, or $1.37 per share on an annualized basis. The quarterly dividend is payable on July 15, 2014 to shareholders of re...

Barclays, abandoning its ambitions to be an elite global bank, pledged to slash its investment bank nearly in half and to exit retail-banking businesses in western Europe.

The U.S. economy is speeding ahead this quarter--perhaps growing faster than 4%--as the recovery gets back on track after a winter when growth slowed to a crawl, according to The Wall Street Journal's latest survey of ec...

Investors' hopes for a stronger Mexican peso haven't been fulfilled, as sluggish economic conditions on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border weigh on the currency.

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The decision against Daniel Loeb's Third Point in its fight versus Sotheby's is a big win for companies lately getting creative in disputes with activist investors.

The company's results were driven by weather conditions, recent rate increases and better wholesale net margins. While quarterly revenues grew by around 12% year-over-year to around $6.62 billion, adjusted net income gre...

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Higher steel prices complemented by the company's asset optimization and cost savings programs will boost quarterly results year-over-year. Lower iron ore prices on one hand will lower input costs for the company's steel...

Pratt & Whitney (P&W) which makes airplane engines and UTC Aerospace Systems, which is a leading global supplier of airplane components are benefiting from rising global demand for new airplanes from airlines.

The proceeds will likely be used for the firm's power projects in India and coal projects in Australia

The company's results were driven by higher production volumes, better natural gas price realizations and lower production expenses. While quarterly production revenues were up by around 21% year-over-year to $1.76 billi...