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Equities across Latin America rallied Monday, with a surge in resource-related stocks and an improved outlook for economic growth paving the way for Brazil's benchmark to finish nearly 3% higher.

Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to Sell Specialty Pharmaceuticals Business to the Sigma-Tau Group for $300 Million Plus up to $27 Million 11/9/2009 MarketWatch -- Enzon Pharmaceuticals Inc.

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Crude oil futures gained 1.5% to end above $78 a barrel on Monday, as upbeat manufacturing reports from the U.S, China and Europe lifted expectations for energy demand.

At first glance, the October jobs report was disappointing news for the average American and the U.S. stock market, which opened lower Friday.

The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday night to approve legislation extending unemployment benefits and maintaining an $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers.

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Government-backed American International Group Inc. on Friday reported a second consecutive quarterly profit after the credit markets' rally boosted the value of its massive derivatives exposures.

The number of people filing initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell by 20,000 to a seasonally adjusted 512,000 in the week that ended Oct.

Orbitz Worldwide Inc. said Thursday that its third-quarter pretax earnings improved slightly from a year ago on the back of greater sales volumes and despite elimination or reduction of many flight and hotel-booking fees.

Much of the attention on a new bonus report from Johnson Associates is focused on Wall Street's biggest gainers, but not everyone will be popping a bottle of 1995 Krug Clos Ambonnay when incentive checks hit the bank.

Shares of Cisco Systems Inc. rose Thursday, a day after the tech giant reported better-than-expected results that the company attributed to a recovering economy.

Treasury prices pared gains on Thursday, pushing yields lower, after the Labor Department said claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected in the latest week and productivity jumped.

Better-than-expected quarterly results and upbeat comments drew investors to push shares of Cisco Systems Inc.

Allstate Corp. said late Wednesday that it swung to a quarterly profit as the auto insurer benefited from a lack of major catastrophes and avoided big investment losses that it suffered last year.

The pace of job creation will lag even as the U.S. economy recovers, White House budget director Peter Orszag warned Tuesday, adding that the coming months "will continue to be difficult ones for American workers." Who's Got Voter Intensity in NJ, NY and VA? Capital Journal columnist Gerald Seib discusses the coming special elections held in New ...

Japan's Nissan Motor Co. /quotes/comstock/11i!nsan.y /quotes/comstock/!7201 said Wednesday that its group net profit in the first fiscal half-year through September fell 92.9% from the year-earlier period to 9 billion yen .

While the auto industry raced off last month to prove it can still sell cars without government intervention, one longtime runner was left in the dust: Chrysler.

Warren Buffett's $44 billion bet on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. railroad is the kind of big, bold move any 19th-century American capitalist would have loved -- and understood.

Tenet Healthcare Corp. /quotes/comstock/13*!thc /quotes/nls/thc said Tuesday that it lost $3 million, or 1 cent a share in the third quarter.