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Societe Generale, France's second-largest listed banking institution, stated that its quarterly profit declined by a worse-than-anticipated 88.6%, hit by toxic assets at its investment banking institution and further write-downs on its Greek sovereign debt.

Citigroup has decided to pay $158.3 million to settle claims, which its mortgage division fraudulently misled the administration into insuring hazardous mortgage loans for over six years.

As Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney take over more advertisings in Michigan, two novel polls show Santorum building on his newfound lead in the battle for the state's Republican presidential primary on Feb. 28.

When it was launched for the 2007 model year, the GMC Acadia marked the beginning of the end for both minivans and mid-sized body-on-frame sport utility vehicles in General Motors lineup.

Sprint Nextel Corp. registered widening losses for the initial quarterly period it offered the Apple iPhone, signalizing the popular device may not be aiding CEO Dan Hesse turn around the carrier’s biz.

Apple sold 267,000 Macs in the United Kingdom during the last quarterly period of 2011, enhancing its share of the PC market in this nation to about 9.1%.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has called the financial system "frustratingly slow." Today, Congress will discover whether he still thinks so, even after Friday's news that hiring augmented during the month of January and unemployment hit a three-year low.

Lifting up the bets in streamed entertainment, phone giant Verizon Communications Inc. will roll out a novel national streaming service in a JV with DVD-rental company Redbox later on this year.

Fearing a tide of spending by outside conservative groups, President Barack Obama is forwarding his approval to a pro-Democratic Party “super PAC”, which will work to assist his reelection.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer stated that she meant no disrepute when she directed a finger at US President Barack Obama during a strong conversation on an airport tarmac.

Conservationists litigated the United States administration on Thursday over naval training exercises off the West Coast involving sonar that they say damages threatened marine animals in the Pacific Ocean comprising killer whales.

Japan’s administration sought on Friday to reassure the country that it could shun power-rationing this summer, even if all of its nuclear reactors went offline shortly owing to a crisis of confidence in the nuclear power business.

Industrial conglomerate Siemens AG announced that its first-quarter profit declined as the European debt disaster began to hit the broader financial system.

Energy firms carry on expending hundreds of millions of dollars to get hold of an equity stake in budding Oklahoma resource plays.

Xi Jinping, the man widely anticipated to turn China's top head in 2012, will take his biggest step into the global limelight Feb 14 when he meets US President Barack Obama on his initial official visit to the States. as vice president.

After winning swift passage in December of a millionaire's tax addition, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo claimed the procedure of putting together the state financial plan was halfway completed.

A Tesxas woman was sent to jail for 45 years for killing her 6-year-old kid in a New Hampshire motel room.

A federal appeals court cleared the path for the instant enforcement of a novel abortion rule in Texas requiring physicians to carry out a sonogram before the process.

Women's Health has rated Plano at the sixth position in its fourth annual Healthiest Cities for Women rating.

Looking beyond the wars he inherited, President Barack Obama on Thursday initiated a remolding and contracting of the military.

Chrysler stated that it has decided to append 1,100 jobs at its Jefferson North assembly facility in Detroit, where it amasses the Dodge Durango and Jeep Grand Cherokee sport utility vehicles.

Oil dropped for a second consecutive day in New York, cutting down a weekly gain, as growing U.S. crude inventories and signals that Europe’s sovereign debt disaster is deteriorating pointed to uncertain demand for fuel.

Gasoline rates at the pump began the year off with a bang — at the uppermost-ever stage for the start of 2012, and analysts anticipate a particularly volatile 2012.

President Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are the country's most accepted man and woman — once again — in the twelve-monthly USA TODAY/Gallup survey.

Home prices in the United States dropped in the majority of key cities for the second consecutive month, further confirmation that the housing recovery will be rough and weigh on the broader financial system by the coming year.

Texas residents utilize additional energy than anywhere else in the United States.

Asian bourses dropped on Wednesday, with trading diluted by year-end vacations and blended financial news out of the U.S. and Japan.

S&P's stated that there is a greater number of sovereign and banking bonds in jeopardy of ratings downgrades due to its recent warning that it might slash the credit ratings on 15 euro zone countries.

Texas will necessitate oil and natural- gas operators to report the chemical constituents utilized in novel hydraulically fractured wells commencing in 2012.

Hong Kong topped the WEF’s 2011 index of financial market growth, replacing the U.S. and U.K. from the uppermost rankings for the initial time.

Oil dropped from a one-week peak in New York amid conjecture the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Nations will locate an output ceiling near existing fabrication levels at a gathering in Vienna today.

Announcing the U.S. objective is a flourishing Iraq, President Barack Obama assured monetary, political as well as military assistance to Iraqi PM Nuri al-Maliki after the last American military personnel leave the Middle Eastern country by 2011 end.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott asked a federal court to postpone a December 15 applicant filing time limit for state lawmaking and http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/12/12/3589951/texas-redistricting-is-h... ">congressional races whilst the U.S. SC reviews novel election maps.

The federal administration forwarded Texas a waiver, which could mean billions more in Medicaid dollars to hospitals by the coming time, in return for having them work jointly to offer up better care for the poor.