TOKYO Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Japan's third-biggest bank by assets, outshone it larger rivals and posted its biggest profit in seven quarters on Monday, helped by an improvement in its stock portfolio and a decline in bad loans. Hot Stock
ATHENS Greece will lower the current 75,000 € income threshold that is subject to a 40 percent tax rate as part of reforms to urgently boost government revenues, the country's finance minister said on Monday.Greece's planned tax reforms are part of
TOKYO Japanese bank lending logged its biggest annual fall in more than four years in January as companies faced with overcapacity and a murky economic outlook steered clear of borrowing for capital investment purposes. JapanThe softness in domest
TOKYO Shares in Toyota Motor Corp edged higher after the head of the world's largest automaker made a public apology for safety problems and said it would bring in outside experts to review quality controls. Hot StocksBut gains in Toyota's stock i
NEW YORK IBM is beginning a long-awaited upgrade to a range of servers and other hardware to make them more energy-efficient and competitive than rival products by Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems Inc. TechnologyInternational Business Machines
NEW YORK Sidestepping the usual slapstick comedy and animal tricks, a number of advertisers tried to score during Sunday's Super Bowl with commercials that tapped into men's ambivalence with their everyday lives.In the battle among advertisers, Uni
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