Altria to buy UST for $10.3 bln: WSJ

Cigarette maker Altria Group Inc has agreed to buy Skoal and Copenhagen smokeless tobacco maker UST Inc for about $10.3 bln in cash, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with

Nationwide to merge with Derbyshire, Cheshire

Nationwide, the UK's biggest customer-owned lender, said on Monday it was to merge with smaller rivals the Derbyshire and Cheshire Building Societies. Nationwide, the country's second-biggest provider of mortgages, said the tie-ups

US August jobless at 6.1%, 84k jobs lost

The U.S. unemployment rate unexpectedly shot up to 6.1 percent in August, its highest in more than 4-1/2 years, as employers cut payrolls for an eighth straight month and labour markets showed