Southwest Airlines agreed to acquire AirTran for $1.4 billion in cash and stock, the first major merger between U.S. discount carriers.
27/09/2010 02:29 PM
The FTC sued POM Wonderful, maker of a popular pomegranate juice, alleging unsubstantiated health claims.
27/09/2010 01:27 PM
A group of state insurance regulators proposed measures for insurers to guard against sales of retirement products driven by professional investors as market bets.
27/09/2010 02:24 PM
Wal-Mart offered to buy South Africa's Massmart for $4.6 billion, making a foray into the fast-growing African market.
27/09/2010 01:44 PM
The Dow industrials were slightly lower, stepping back after four weeks of gains that have the measure on pace for its best September since 1939.
27/09/2010 02:26 PM
More than half of the oil from BP's blown-out well remains in the Gulf of Mexico and is a "highly durable material" that is now buried along the coast and on the sea floor, a Florida State University professor will tell a spill commission.
27/09/2010 01:13 PM
Unilever said it has reached an agreement to purchase Alberto Culver, maker of Alberto VO5 hair-care products, for $3.7 billion.
27/09/2010 12:54 PM
Jean-Claude Trichet, known as "Mr. Euro" for devoting much of his 40-year career to building the common currency, cobbled an uneasy pact to keep the euro zone from unraveling during the continent's fiscal crisis this spring. Second in a series.
27/09/2010 01:25 PM
Ford's President and CEO Alan Mulally said the auto maker still expects to make a "solid profit" this year and plans to invest $2.37 billion in the U.K. over the next five years.
27/09/2010 02:01 PM
AIG must defend a shareholder lawsuit that alleged the insurer made misstatements about its exposure to the subprime mortgage market, a federal judge ruled.
27/09/2010 02:05 PM
Connecticut's attorney general is probing GMAC Mortgage over what he claims are "defective foreclosure documents" filed in Connecticut.
27/09/2010 01:22 PM
Moody's Investors Service downgraded Anglo Irish Bank's senior debt by three notches due to expectations the troubled bank would require further government support.
27/09/2010 01:13 PM
