FRANKFURT (Reuters) - ThyssenKrupp has attracted interest from Brazil's Vale and South Korea's Posco for its struggling steel plants in Brazil and the United States, German weekly WirtschaftsWoche reported.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Shareholders of Egyptian investment bank EFG-Hermes voted on Saturday against a group of investors seeking to buy the bank, but the investors will appeal to Egypt's regulator to suspend the decision, the group targeting the bank said.
(Reuters) - AOL Inc, waging a proxy fight with activist hedge fund Starboard Value, said on Saturday its shareholders should approve all eight nominees for its board of directors after an advisory service recommended the approval of only six.
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain, the latest combat zone in Europe's long-running debt wars, urged the euro zone to set up a new fiscal authority to manage the bloc's finances and send a clear signal to markets that the single currency project is irreversible.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - It had been another brutal day for the rupee on the foreign exchanges as India's economic crisis escalated and, travelling home from a visit to Myanmar last week, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh summoned journalists on his plane for a briefing.
DUBAI (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings has received formal regulatory approval to merge its business in Oman with local lender Oman International Bank , it said in a statement to the Muscat stock exchange on Sunday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Expectations for U.S. corporate earnings are deflating fast as the euro zone crisis deepens and economic data around the world disappoints.
BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) - When Jean-Claude Trichet called last June for the creation of a European finance ministry with power over national budgets, the idea seemed fanciful, a distant dream that would take years or even decades to realize, if it ever came to be.
(Reuters) - The bond markets are treating Morgan Stanley like a junk-rated company, and the investment bank's higher borrowing costs could already be putting it at a disadvantage even before an expected ratings downgrade this month.
FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc executives told shareholders they would not stand for unethical behavior at the world's largest retailer, whose shares have soared to 12-year highs as strong results more than offset concerns about bribery allegations.