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Lockheed Martin said more than 600 executives, or one-fourth of the eligible total, applied to accept financial incentives to leave the company.

For jittery or bearish investors, the timing may be right to substitute bullish "call" options for stocks.

New GM Chief Executive Dan Akerson told employees Wednesday that the auto maker will take an "attacker's stance" against the competition now that it has the resources to do so.

The U.S. government is scrambling to preserve the benefits of a civil nuclear agreement with India after India passed a law that threatens to effectively exclude U.S. companies from its market for nuclear power.

The Obama administration gave a thumbs down to plans by Virgin Blue and Delta Air Lines to coordinate operations on flights between Australia and the U.S.

GlaxoSmithKline chose Simon Dingemans, a Goldman Sachs M&A specialist, to be its next chief financial officer.

Oracle said it will pay Mark Hurd, its new co-president, an annual base salary of $950,000 and be eligible for up to a $10 million bonus in the current fiscal year.

Southwest Airlines Co. said traffic rose in August as a key measure of revenue again jumped by a double-digit percentage as fares remain well above year-earlier levels.

Canada's Anatolia Minerals Development Ltd. and Australia's Avoca Resources Ltd. have agreed to merger in a deal that will create a gold company with a market value of some $2 billion.

Vodafone's $6.65 billion sale of its stake in China Mobile highlights the challenges faced by foreign carriers looking to link up with Chinese telecoms.

Dana Petroleum said that a hostile $2.87 billion bid by Korea National Oil Corp. significantly undervalues the company.

Airgas rejected the latest takeover offer from Air Products & Chemicals, saying the $5.48 billion bid continues to undervalue the company.

House GOP Leader John Boehner offered a concession on tax cuts, suggesting Republicans would accept a two-year extension of all the Bush-era tax breaks rather than the permanent extension they have been seeking.

Smithfield Foods returned to the black in the latest quarter from a year-earlier loss and said it will likely sell its 49% stake in Butterball.

As food and consumer-goods companies face problems obtaining the key ingredient palm oil without damaging the environment, Unilever is betting on a promising low-life alternative: algae.

Global banking regulators appear poised to demand larger reserves, which they believe will prevent a future financial crisis, and reserves of higher quality, under so-called Basel 3.

Netflix reached a deal to stream movies online from Nu Image/Millennium at the same time they hit pay-TV channels.

GIC, Singapore's sovereign-wealth fund, is in advanced talks to buy a roughly 15% stake in Banco BTG Pactual, one of Brazil's top investment banks, for about $2.4 billion.

The U.S. Treasury added Iran-owned, German-based European-Iranian Trade Bank to its key blacklist, saying the bank has provided a financial lifeline to Iranian companies involved in weapons proliferation.

H-P sued to block former CEO Mark Hurd from joining rival Oracle as a senior executive, citing trade-secret and other concerns.