Richest dead celebrity: Bob Marley

Is reggae superstar Bob Marley bigger than Jesus? That’s debatable, but the music legend who died 28 years ago is about to challenge Elvis […]

China Loans Growth to Spur Inflation Next Year, BNP’s Sanft Says

China’s lending growth has been “too high” in the past year and may spur inflation in 2010, said Erwin Sanft, head of China and […]

Goldman Sachs makes 272 managing directors: source

Goldman Sachs Group Inc, in the spotlight over its controversial plans to pay billions of dollars in year-end bonuses to executives, has invited 272 […]

BOE Policy Makers Split Three Ways on Bond Program

Bank of England policy makers split three ways in a vote to extend the bond-purchase program to 200 billion pounds ($336 billion), and discussed […]

Calpers chief backs lobbyist rules for placement agents

The president of Calpers urged fellow board members at the biggest U.S. public pension fund on Wednesday to back his plan to require placement […]

Home prices fell in most U.S. cities in third quarter

Home prices fell in the third quarter from year-ago levels in about 80 percent of U.S. metropolitan areas, the National Association of Realtors said […]

Coke, Pepsi bottlers see sales fall

Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc and PepsiAmericas Inc sold fewer soft drinks in the United States than analysts anticipated, signaling that consumers remain cautious about spending […]

Calpers probes fees paid in pay-to-play deal

Calpers said it was probing the fees outside money managers had been paying to win business with the largest U.S. pension fund, adding a […]

Battle-tested IMF emerges with bigger global role

The International Monetary Fund is evolving into a “central clearing house” that will help manage the global economy, the head of the IMF’s policy-steering […]

IMF warns on rising bank losses

The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday lowered its estimate for global write-downs for banks and other financial institutions to roughly $3.4 trillion but warned […]