By Natsuko Waki LONDON (Reuters) - The world's biggest investors may be rethinking 20 years of boosting overseas holdings and are instead seeking more stable cash income at home, as aging societies and ...

Head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) France's Christine Lagarde speaks to the press as she leaves the French Republic Justice Court on May 24, 2013 in Paris. Lagarde avoided immediate charges ...

By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. stock market's break in its recent rally this week left investors wondering if they're seeing a turning point or just a blip in the upward path. Next ...

By Jennifer Saba REUTERS - News Corp (NWSA.O) said on Friday it will write down the value of its Australian and U.S. publishing assets by up to $1.4 billion, as the company prepares to split its business ...

News Corp said on Friday it will write down the value of its Australian and U.S. publishing assets by up to $1.4 billion, as the company prepares to split its business between its newspaper and entertainment ...

Traders work on the floor of the stock exchange on March 14, 2013 in New York City. Traders remained cautious Friday, with stocks virtually unchanged, leaving the markets lower for the five-day period ...

REUTERS - Billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones, who riled both Wall Street and Main Street when he said that women will never quite rival men in investing or trading, apologized on Friday, noting that ...

By Jessica Dye NEW YORK (Reuters) - Visa Inc (V.N) and MasterCard Inc (MA.N), opening another front in an eight-year battle over credit card fees paid by retailers, on Friday asked a federal judge to declare ...

An eye examination is performed on September 27, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. Canadian pharmaceutical company Valeant is close to a deal to acquire US eye health company Bausch & Lomb for about $9 ...

Traders work on the floor of the stock exchange on March 14, 2013 in New York City. US stocks closed flat Friday, reeling in early losses but showing caution following Japan's Thursday plunge and ahead ...

By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global equity markets slipped on Friday over worries the U.S. Federal Reserve may curb a stimulus program that has lifted stocks, while the dollar recovered against ...

The dollar posted its worst week against the yen in a year on Friday as volatility in stocks and uncertainty about the outlook for U.S. monetary policy spurred investors to pare back bets against the Japanese ...

By Angela Moon NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 declined for a third day on Friday, with the three major U.S. stock indexes posting their first negative week since mid-April on lingering concern that the ...

The S&P 500 declined for a third day on Friday, with the three major U.S. stock indexes posting their first negative week since mid-April on lingering concern that the U.S. central bank may scale back ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global equity markets edged lower on Friday on worries the U.S. Federal Reserve may curb its stimulus program, while the dollar recovered against the euro to trade flat after better-than-expected ...

Global equity markets slipped on Friday over worries the U.S. Federal Reserve may curb a stimulus program that has lifted stocks, while the dollar recovered against the euro after better-than-expected ...

The S&P 500 declined for a third day on Friday with the three major U.S. stock indexes posting their first negative week since mid-April on lingering concern that the U.S. central bank may scale back its ...

Currency speculators increased bets in favor of the U.S. dollar in the latest week to the highest since at least June 2008, according to data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission released on Friday. ...

* St. John's gasoline unit outage supports prices * U.S. equities lend some support * High U.S. supplies, Fed bond buying concerns weigh (Updates prices, adds details.) By Jeanine Prezioso NEW YORK, May ...

The dollar was headed on Friday for its worst week against the yen in nearly two years, extending the prior session's selloff, as volatility in Japan's stock market spurred investors to book profits on ...

* Gold boosted this week by drop in stock markets, falling dollar * Fed official dampens talk Fed policy may soon tighten * Largest physical gold fund sees fresh outflow (Recasts, updates prices, adds ...

U.S. stocks mostly declined for a third day on Friday, putting indexes on track for their first negative week since mid-April, on lingering concern that the U.S. central bank may scale back its stimulus ...

Next week will get off to a slow start, due to the Spring Bank holiday in the UK and the Memorial Day holiday Stateside, although the macroeconomic data flow will accelerate towards the end of the same, ...

U.S. stock indexes pared most of their earlier declines on Friday and the Dow pushed into positive territory, helped by a strong gain in shares of Procter & Gamble. The Dow Jones industrial average edged ...

By Sarah McBride and Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc is in talks to buy Waze, an Israeli mapping start-up that has held discussions with several large technology companies, two sources ...

The dollar extended its declines against the yen in afternoon trade on Friday and was on track for its biggest weekly loss in three years against the Japanese currency. The dollar fell to 100.68 yen, a ...

U.S. Treasuries prices edged up on Friday as traders evaluated the likelihood of the U.S. Federal Reserve pulling back on bond purchases this year and whether a recent selloff was overdone. Benchmark 10-year ...

* Coming up: Commitment of traders data at 4:30 p.m. EDT * St. John's gasoline unit outage supports prices (Updates prices) NEW YORK, May 24 (Reuters) - Oil prices rose in late afternoon trading in New ...

A broker monitors market movements at BGC Partners in London on August 5, 2011. European stock markets slid modestly on Friday, following sharp losses suffered the previous day, failing to score gains ...

U.S. Treasuries prices edged up on Friday as traders evaluated the likelihood of the U.S. Federal Reserve pulling back on bond purchases this year and whether the recent selloff was overdone. Benchmark ...

BLANQUEFORT, France (Reuters) - U.S. car maker Ford will retain 1,000 jobs at a plant in southwest France after striking a deal on Friday with local authorities to share the burden of new investments needed ...

By Jan Harvey LONDON (Reuters) - Gold prices are looking even more vulnerable after April's price crash, as rampant inflation expected from successive rounds of monetary easing fails to materialise. The ...

U.S.-listed shares of foreign companies declined on Friday, on track for their fourth straight decline, on concerns a tapering program of stimulus measures by the U.S. Federal Reserve may be on the horizon. ...