CBOE Holdings Inc, which operates the biggest U.S. options exchange, said on Thursday it is planning to raise as much as $300 million in an initial public offering...

Investors and analysts have greeted the deal with skepticism, however. Since the deal was first reported in early March, China Mobile's Hong Kong-listed shares have fallen 3 percent…

More than 100 nations have now endorsed the Copenhagen Accord, a non-binding agreement reached after two weeks of tortuous wrangling at a 194-nation summit in December.….

HSBC Holdings said the theft of data by a former employee affected about 15,000 Swiss client accounts, after previously saying it affected "less than 10 clients"...

London-based oil major BP has agreed to buy Brazilian, Azeri and Gulf of Mexico assets from Devon Energy for $7 billion, as the U.S. producer refocuses on onshore U.S. fields...

Global regulators have set up an extra body to assess how new bank capital requirements will affect the economy after industry criticism that introducing tougher rules too soon could stall recovery...

Around one in two sovereign wealth funds invest in private equity, real estate and infrastructure assets to seek a diversified source of returns, a report showed...

Citigroup's launch of preferred securities on Wednesday is a potentially major test of market sentiment, one year after prices of bank bonds and stocks plunged to multi-year lows, analysts said...

Canadian corporate mergers and acquisitions continued to rebound in the fourth quarter, with the number of deals rising 18 percent year over year and the value of the transactions…

The recent uptick in merger activity has included an increase in strong-armed takeover tactics that has made unfriendly deals even more hostile...

Comerica Inc, a large U.S. regional bank, said it priced an offering of more than 22.8 million of its shares at $35 a share…

The European Commission will consider banning the naked selling of contracts that investors use to hedge against countries defaulting on their debt, its chief said...

Arrow said on Monday that the non-binding, conditional bid from a company jointly owned by Shell and PetroChina would give shareholders A$4.45 in cash per share…

Fertilizer maker CF Industries formally launched an exchange offer for all of the outstanding shares of Terra Industries and said its offer is superior to Yara's current offer for the company...

A small Midwestern bank has negotiated with the U.S. Treasury for taxpayers to essentially buy the bank's shares at an above-market-value price, in an unusual transaction reflecting how…

Indebted Spanish media company Prisa reached a deal with Liberty Acquisition Group on Friday worth around $900 million for the publisher of El Pais and…

Auto parts maker Tower International Inc filed for an initial public offering worth up to $100 million…

A federal appeals court affirmed a contempt finding against Dish Network Corp and EchoStar Corp in their long-running patent case against digital video recorder maker TiVo Inc...

Canon Inc declared its $1 billion offer for Oce NV unconditional, sending a clear message to shareholders holding out for a better deal it is set to tie up the acquisition...

Investment fund Elliott Associates offered to buy business software maker Novell Inc for $2 billion, sending its shares up 28 percent as investors hoped for a better bid….

U.S. banks would be banned from proprietary trading and other large financial firms would face quantitative limits on such activity, according to draft language on the so-called "Volcker rule" from the Obama administration...

U.S. southeast regional bank Synovus Financial Corp said it is facing an informal inquiry from the U.S. securities regulator, filings show...

The U.S. National Broadband Plan set for release this month will not call for additional spending beyond the existing programs, a move likely to garner support from lawmakers…

Athabasca Oil Sands Corp, which recently sold a stake in its projects to a Chinese company for C$2 billion ($1.92 billion), plans to raise C$750 million in an IPO that is seen as a test of the strength of...

Fertilizer maker CF Industries Holdings Inc relaunched a hostile bid worth $4.75 billion to buy rival Terra Industries in a move to break up Terra's planned takeover by Norway's Yara International...

Japan's Astellas Pharma Inc launched a $3.5 billion hostile bid for OSI Pharmaceuticals to gain access to the U.S. company's Tarceva cancer drug and become a bigger player in oncology...

Merck KGaA's agreed $6 billion cash purchase of U.S. biotech tool maker Millipore buoyed the German drugmaker's share on Monday as it diversified away from its embattled pharmaceuticals business...

Britain's Prudential said it would buy AIG's Asian life insurance arm for $35.5 billion, in a deal set to make the insurer the undisputed leader in one of the world's fastest-growing financial services markets...