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The holiday outlook for the luxury world turned grimmer Tuesday, after Saks Inc. reported a wider-than-expected loss in the fiscal third quarter, and both it and...

The Norwegian shipping group Odfjell SE has ordered its more than 90 tankers to sail all the way around Africa to avoid the risk of attack by Somali pirates, instead of...

The financial crisis is forcing European Union nations to reverse two decades of declining state subsidies for companies, the European Commission said Tuesday.

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi and German Chancellor Angela are taking a wait-and-see posture on aid to the auto industries that power both economies, while closely...

British Treasury chief Alistair Darling warned on Tuesday that any attempts to renegotiate the government’s 37 billion pound ($55 billion) bailout of several...

The National Association of Home Builders says its housing market index plunged to another record low this month as the U.S. financial crisis, rising unemployment and...

A wireless affiliate of Sprint Nextel Corp. has pulled its request that an Illinois judge block the planned spinoff of Sprint’s new broadband network.

Anheuser-Busch InBev is now the world’s largest beer company, officially formed Tuesday when InBev closed its $52 billion buyout of St. Louis-based...

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson expressed fresh reservations Tuesday about tapping a $700 billion bailout pool to provide mortgage guarantees to help stem soaring home...

A dispute on the board of budget airline easyJet PLC escalated Tuesday when founder and non-executive director Stelios Haji-Iannou refused to approve the...

Oil prices fluctuated Tuesday even as the government reported that gasoline prices recorded their largest drop ever in October and prices for home heating oil, natural...

Chinese President Hu Jintao was on a triumphant tour through Havana on Tuesday as his country expanded its already extensive economic relationship with the...

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange closed higher Tuesday.

Massachusetts’ top securities regulator on Tuesday accused Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. of fraud over the investment bank’s sales of auction-rate securities...

Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Tuesday after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel that both leaders hope Lufthansa can work out a collaboration deal with...

Oil prices fluctuated Tuesday even as the government reported that gasoline prices recorded their largest drop ever in October and prices for home heating oil, natural...

InBev SA formed the world’s largest brewer Tuesday when it finalized its $52 billion (euro41 billion) takeover of Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc.

France, the current holder of the European Union presidency, called Tuesday on EU regulators to show flexibility in applying state subsidy rules so governments could...

The Kroger Co. has opened its biggest “Fresh Fare” store yet and plans more of the stores aimed at luring eat-at-home and natural foods shoppers.