By Stanley White TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan risks missing, yet again, an opportunity to use foreign investment to help fuel sustained economic growth that has eluded it for the last two decades. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to make Japan "the ... [Full Article]
By Greg Roumeliotis NEW YORK (Reuters) - Alternative asset managers such as Blackstone Group LP and KKR & Co LP have for decades scoured the stock market for undervalued companies. Now they are trying to convince investors that shares in their ow... [Full Article]
By Martin Santa BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Cyprus and Malta have a lot in common: Mediterranean islands enjoying 10 months of sunshine a year, they joined the European Union in 2004, use the euro and have banking sectors that dwarf their economies. There a... [Full Article]
By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) - Last month, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman withdrew claims for up to $6 billion in damages against former AIG chief Hank Greenberg. Now, another big case - against Bank of America over its acquisiti... [Full Article]
BEIRUT (AP) - The Syrian regime on Tuesday dispatched an obscure proxy, a Damascus-based Palestinian militant group, to threaten retaliation for two Israeli airstrikes over the weekend. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
By Jonny Hogg RUMANGABO, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - In forested hills in eastern Congo, rebels are honing their ambush skills to prepare to face a new United Nations force which has a mandate to go on the offensive. "Destroy the en... [Full Article]
By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) - When New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman gave up a claim for damages against former AIG chief Hank Greenberg, he also likely neutralized a long-awaited challenge to his office's power. New York'... [Full Article]
By Anna Driver and Michael Erman (Reuters) - Hedge fund TPG-Axon Capital has won nearly half the seats on SandRidge Energy Corp's board but faces an uphill battle to reverse the oil and gas company's slumping stock price. SandRidge shares h... [Full Article]
By Cameron French TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce's remake from swashbuckling Wall Street player to low-risk Canada-focused lender has stabilized its earnings, but some shareholders now worry that the bank faces outsized e... [Full Article]
By Simon Johnson and Leila Abboud STOCKHOLM/PARIS (Reuters) - Chinese telecom operators will start awarding contracts for super-fast mobile networks this year, kicking off the third wave of a global investment cycle that is reshaping the competitive ... [Full Article]