Monika Halan is editor of Mint Money, India's second-largest business newspaper, which has an exclusive partnership with the Wall Street Journal.
India is willing to advance its peace talks with Pakistan and discuss the Kashmir issue, but the main stumbling block is Islamabad's failure to clamp down on militant groups, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai has said.
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Morgan Stanley Smith Barney currently is valued at $20 billion on Citigroup's books, which is $ 5 billion more than it is on Morgan Stanley's, the report said citing Credit Suisse's analyst Howard Chen.
US federal investigators are probing whether investment banking major Morgan Stanley misled investors about mortgage-derivative deals, says a media report.
While the United States is demanding that Pakistan launch an offensive against the Haqqani network, the Inter-Services Intelligence is instead wooing the terrorist group to join nascent Afghan peace talks, according to a newspaper report.
An influential American daily on Thursday claimed that there are signs that slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was being protected by some elements of the Pakistan's notorious spy agency Inter Service Intelligence.
Three senior executive of JP Morgan Chase & Co's are expected to leave over the US-based global banking giant's over USD 2 billion loss on derivative trades, says a media report.
Entrepreneurs face severe challenges while starting a business as the regulatory framework is burdensome in many nations.
Sahara has paid a 10 per cent down payment for the 105-year-old landmark.
The documents obtained from the cyberattack on Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee was released by a hacker known as Guccifer 2.0.
Amazon, in recent years, has emerged as a disruptive force in shopping, attracting millions of customers across the globe - the US and India in particular - to shop online.
Officials of United States financial giant Bank of America Corp have discussed slashing about 40,000 jobs under the first phase of a proposed restructuring exercise, according to a media report on Friday.
'For the first time since I've been following Indian politics, one heard voters talking about India's role on the world stage and the fact that, due to Modi's leadership, India was once again a great power.'
Bank of America Corp will slash 3,500 jobs in the current quarter and is working on broader restructuring that could eliminate thousands of additional positions, a media report says.
A new report on American journalist Daniel Pearl's killing presents fresh evidence that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed executed the reporter in Pakistan nine years ago and four men imprisoned for the crime were convicted on the basis of perjured testimony.
Justice Department staff lawyers have begun preparing legal documents for use in a possible court challenge to the $700 million deal for ITA Software, the report said adding that no decision to proceed has been made.
Research In Motion has denied an Indian media report that said the company has offered to install a network data analysis system at its India office to allow access to emails sent through its BlackBerry smartphones to Indian security agencies.
Heads continued to roll in the News of the World phone hacking scandal as Rupert Murdoch's top executive and Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton became the latest high-profile personality to resign from his post. Hinton was the chief executive of Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal. Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of the media group's UK newspaper arm News International had quit on Friday.
According to the daily, the fine is expected to be the largest penalty ever levied on a single company by the US Federal Trade Commission.
The Wall Street Journal has reported the civil probe, which has the potential to reshape how companies compete on the Internet, is the most serious legal threat yet to the 12-year-old company.
Internet giant Yahoo may shed its substantial holding in China's Alibaba Group and in its Japanese affiliate in transactions totalling about $18 billion, says a media report.
Attributing to people familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal said, 'federal prosecutors, after a two-year investigation, may soon decide not to charge executives for their role surrounding financial contracts that nearly brought down the company.'
Social networking giant Facebook's growth appears to be slowing down, especially in the United States, according to a report.
Internet search giant Google has sued the US Department of the Interior alleging that the federal agency favoured rival Microsoft while considering bids for e-mail and collaboration software for its 88,000 employees.
Cook revealed only a handful of incremental insights on Apple''s products and strategies.
Google Inc is close to settling a US criminal investigation into allegations it made money by accepting ads from online pharmacies that break US laws, says a media report.
US-based banking major Citigroup is likely to slash 900 jobs in its securities and banking division amid financial market turmoil, says a report.
The Justice Department investigation, involves card company policies that prevent merchants from encouraging customers to use cards that have lower processing fees.
Top US officials are unhappy over some Inter-Services Intelligence elements continuing to support the Haqqani network to counter India's presence in the region, amid fears that Pakistani military is "unable or unwilling" to act against Taliban and Al Qaeda in the restive tribal belt.
Julka recalls that after the May conviction of Gupta's billionaire friend hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam, Gupta seemed worried and nervous about his own future.
The proposed agreement is not final, and could fall apart, the report noted.
Whether the beleaguered Tokyo Olympics begin as planned this July could come down to support from the United States and its new president, the Wall Street Journal quoted Tokyo Organising Committee member Haruyuki Takahashi as saying in an interview.
Morgan Stanley plans high-level management changes, which includes finance chief Colm Kelleher and veteran banker Paul Taubman taking charge of the company's institutional securities unit.
Blankfein will at the upcoming trial of Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam.
The US said that there has been no "significant impact" on its military to military relationship with Pakistan after Islamabad refused to release an American diplomat detained on possible murder charges.
Indian-American Deven Sharma, the president of Standard and Poor's, is stepping down by year end, an announcement coming only weeks after the credit rating agency downgraded American credit rating.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that the SEC has contacted many investment banks whose analysts cover generic drug-maker Mylan, asking about a meeting the company hosted last September with those analysts and a group of investors.
In written responses to questions from The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal published on Monday, Chinese President Hu Jintao insisted that his country believes in the principle of peaceful co-existence, as he prepared to meet his counterpart Barack Obama at the White House next week.
SEC rules require companies with 500 or more shareholders of record in a given type of stock to publicly disclose certain financial information.
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