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British shares climb, helped by earnings-related gains from Smiths Group and British Land as well as an advance for mining firms.

Merger Monday has returned. But don't break out the cigars and Champagne just yet, writes David Weidner.

Higher prices for commodities help European stocks to gains on Tuesday.

The dollar slips versus the euro, falling from a 4-year high against the shared currency, as investors tiptoe back towards assets deemed riskier and higher yielding.

U.S. stocks open higher Tuesday as the euro stabilized. Energy stocks rebounded as crude-oil prices bounced back.

U.S. housing starts increased for the second straight month in April to an 18-month high, the government estimates, but building permits fell sharply, casting doubts on the momentum of the housing recovery.

Consumer price inflation in Britain accelerates to an annual rate of 3.7% in April, rising from 3.4% in March and forcing Bank of England Governor Mervyn King to write a letter to the government explaining why inflation missed the 2% annual target.

Oil futures rise above $72 a barrel on Tuesday after five straight sessions of losses, as traders bet that crude’s recent decline may have been overdone.

Gold futures drop more than 1%, as European equities trade higher and the euro gains on the dollar, dimming the appeal of the metal as a safe haven.

Short-term Treasury prices edge down on Tuesday as traders focus on the euro’s tentative rebound from a 4-year low.

The activist investor who muscled his way onto Yahoo’s board of directors in 2008 has reduced sharply his once-significant stake in the Internet company, according to a regulatory filing.

Australian iron-ore miners and their global peers could soon find China’s property market to be an unexpectedly large factor in their short-term fortunes, due to a new spot-based pricing system.

The race is on for Chinese banks to raise money from the market before conditions worsen, with Agricultural Bank of China's massive IPO among the fundraising plans jockeying for position, Caixin Online reports.

The recent sell-off for European shares has been a normal bull market correction, Morgan Stanley strategists said Monday, which means shares could gain strongly from this point.

In January, Estonia will likely become the 17th nation to adopt the euro, but that will hardly cure all the challenges facing the tiny Baltic economy, whose dramatic decline has pushed unemployment to a record high.

Skidding currencies, plunging stock markets, soaring government bond yields -- if the type of sovereign debt crisis that just hit Greece heads to U.S. or other shores, investors may think the safest place for their savings is the mattress. Here are some alternatives.

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Tuesday's session are Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Home Depot Inc.

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will be the subject of a presidential commission similar to panels created to probe the space shuttle Challenger disaster and the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, according to a report.

Equities across most of Latin America fall, hurt by persistent fears about debt troubles in the euro zone.

Mining, materials and energy stocks gang up to slam Canadian markets as gold and oil prices decline.