Wheat fell in Chicago, erasing a climb to a three-week high, as rain in India and Australia lifted crop prospects and as dry weather may permit the Canadian harvest to advance.

HSBC Holdings Plc Chairman Stephen Green will step down to become trade minister for the U.K. government.

Corporate bond investors are facing the potential for record losses when policy makers start to raise interest rates as companies take advantage of falling borrowing costs to sell longer-term debt.

German police conducted early morning raids against the country’s biggest neo-Nazi group, escalating efforts to stamp out a growing movement of potentially violent anti-immigrant extremists.

London’s 3.5 million Tube travelers face turmoil next week with as many as 10,000 of the subway’s train drivers, station staff and engineers staging the first of a series of 24-hour strikes over job cuts.

President Nicolas Sarkozy warned France’s two nuclear champions Areva SA and Electricite de France SA to stop fighting and cooperate.

The defense ministers of France and the U.K. said they’ll consider pooling equipment such as Airbus SAS A400M transport planes to cut costs, though they ruled out sharing aircraft carriers.

Co-CEO Bill McDermott says SAP aims to make China a "second home" to tap into "limitless growth" as local companies adopt management software and business intelligence tools

An experimental Novartis AG medicine that killed drug-resistant malaria in laboratory studies may become the first new class of treatment against the disease in 30 years, researchers said.

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