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A Shanghai court rejected a Chinese company's effort to get a preliminary injunction against the sale of Apple's iPad there over a trademark dispute and postponed the hearings pending the results of another case in a Chinese court.

A Shanghai court has rejected a request by a Chinese technology firm to stop Apple Inc selling its iPad tablet computers in the city, a source said, part of a wider battle for Apple over the trademark in China.

Contractions seen in Italy and Spain led the European Commission to lower its growth forecast for the entire currency bloc.

There’s a lot of information and opinions out there, along with such myriad details as mortgage options, escrow accounts, HOA fees and others.

Currently, 31 states have nuclear plants. 24/7 Wall St.’s analysis covers the 10 states in which nuclear energy is the most significant source, or even the only source of emission-free power.

They don't test for this stuff in schools. Do you have what it takes?

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SK Innovation Co. (096770.SE) said Thursday that its chemical unit, SK Global Chemical, has signed an initial agreement with China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. (SNP), or Sinopec, to build and operate a CNY3.7 billion butanediol plant in Chongqing.

You already have an "insurance score." You have an "Employment Credit Score." Now that a "Facebook score" has been invented, I expect a "Grocery Habits score" and a "Music Taste" score to arrive any time now.

Siam Commercial Bank PCL (SCB.TH), Thailand's third-largest commercial bank by assets, said Thursday its board approved a dividend of THB2.50 per share for the company's performance in the second half of 2011.

Rules on what counts as core bank capital should be harmonized and binding across the European Union, a senior Bank of Italy official said Thursday.

U.K. utility Centrica said it had cut around 2,300 jobs as part of its plan to deliver £500 million in cost savings as weaker economic conditions and higher wholesale gas prices pressured profits.

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS) said Thursday that it slumped to a 2011 full-year net loss of nearly GBP2 billion as the euro-zone crisis continued to weigh on its investment banking division and restructuring costs squeezed the U.K. bank's bottom line.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch, a unit of Bank of America Corp. (BAC), said it has appointed Philippe Chryssicopoulos to a new role of head of EMEA infrastructure banking, a move reflecting the growing importance of infrastructure to the bank in Europe.

The Royal Bank of Scotland posted a bigger-than-expected loss for 2011 after it took write-downs on the value of its Greek bond holdings and had to compensate some customers who were wrongly sold insurance.

Huadian Fuxin Energy Corp Ltd. plans to raise between US$400 million and US$600 million in an initial public offering in Hong Kong in the second quarter of the year, a person familiar with the situation said Thursday.

United Overseas Bank Ltd. (U11.SG) Thursday reported a 21% drop in its fourth quarter net profit mainly due to the absence of one-time gains, but stressed that its core business remains strong given a positive outlook in Asia.

Citigroup Inc. (C) is looking to raise up to $2.07 billion by selling its entire stake in Indian mortgage lender Housing Development Finance Corp. (500010.BY).

Sucden Financial said Thursday that Kevin Watkins has joined its soft commodities desk from Swiss bank UBS AG (UBS) in order for the brokerage firm to establish a greater presence in the coffee market.

The U.K. banking system needs to be overhauled to spur greater lending to small and midsize firms, Bank of England policy maker Andrew Haldane said Thursday.