Peter Dunn renounced his U.S. citizenship last year so he no longer would have to deal with the Internal Revenue Service, Al Lewis reports.

U.S. stock index futures shake off European worries to post modest gains as investors await Facebook’s much-publicized initial public offering.

U.S. stock index futures shake off European worries to post modest gains as investors await Facebook’s much-publicized initial public offering.

Europe stocks traded choppy with losses for miners and drinks makers, while banks rebounded from earlier losses related to a downgrade of Spanish banks by Moody’s Investors Service late the prior day, amid talk of a ban on short selling of those institutions.

Oil +/-

Oil prices rose to $80 a barrel in N.Y. on Mon., boosted by supply worries as a major strike gripped the French oil industry and tensions remained high over Iran's nuclear programme.

Lloyds' CEO + Eric Daniels, Lloyds’ CEO, has become the latest banking boss to waive his bonus in an attempt to defuse the political row about remuneration. Mr. Daniels yesterday told the board that he would not take a £2.3M payout, marking the second...

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AFL +/- Fitch Ratings downgraded disability insurance provider Aflac Inc. one notch and took the insurer off its Negative Watch. The ratings service downgraded Fitch's IDR to A from A+. Both are investment-grade ratings. Fitch also downgrad...

MSFT, AMZN +/- Microsoft Corp. said it reached a patent licensing agreement with Amazon.com Inc. that gives the online retailer rights to use open-source software in its Kindle electronic book reader and servers based on the Linux operating system. Und...

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