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Oil fell more than $1 to below $71 per barrel on Tuesday, paring three days of gains, as expectations of a rise in U.S. crude inventories offset optimism from positive U.S. and

Britain's bluechip shares edged lower in early trade on Tuesday, a day after hitting a high for 2009, as oil majors retreated on falling crude prices while Standard Chartered dropped after announcing

Global stocks and commodity prices pulled back on Tuesday as investors paused to assess the state of the economy after pushing them higher in the past two weeks, while the U.S. dollar

Leading global automakers reported forecast-beating quarterly results on Tuesday, but continued to give cautious outlooks for the industry, which remains hard hit by weak demand and a lack of consumer credit. Toyota

EBay Inc's online payments service, PayPal, shut down worldwide for about an hour on Monday after the Internet retailer encountered "internal" problems with the fast-growing division. The outage began at 10:30 a.m.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said it will continue to investigate the relationship between the boards of Apple Inc and Google Inc, after Google's chief quit Apple's board on Monday. Richard Feinstein,

Swiss bank UBS (UBSN.VX) posted another big loss in the second quarter as wealthy clients continued to take their cash elsewhere, but there were signs of improvement in its best underlying performance

Asian stocks hit an 11-month high on Tuesday before profit taking pulled them back, while the Australian dollar also pared gains after the country's central bank left interest rates unchanged but offered

Asian stocks climbed to an 11-month high on Tuesday on hopes a V-shaped recovery may be forming in the United States, while the Australian dollar hit its highest since late September after