By Richard Hubbard. LONDON | Wed Jun 19, 2013 4:41am EDT. LONDON (Reuters) - European shares edged higher and major currencies and commodities were little changed on Wednesday as investors awaited clarity on the U.S.

Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:42pm EDT. * SEC will use no admit, no deny settlements in most cases. * White says SEC will only seek admission in selective cases.

South African inflation slowed for the first time in five months to 5.6 percent in May after gasoline prices fell the most since July.

PARIS | Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:05am EDT. PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus (EAD.PA) won an order for 25 A350-900 aircraft from Franco-Dutch carrier Air France-KLM worth $7.5 billion at list prices, the planemaker said at the Paris Airshow on Wednesday.

�I know it's over and it never really began, but in my heart it was so real.� You don't need to be a fan of The Smiths to wonder if the recent vertiginous slump in Japan's stock market marks the end of another in the long series of Japanese false dawns.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, in a speech to the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress on May 22, 2013, hinted that the Fed would someday taper its monthly buying program of $85 billion in longer-term Treasury bonds and Mortgage Backed ...

Houston's Astrodome stadium, New York's old Pan Am Worldport Terminal at Kennedy Airport and Montana's one-room schoolhouses are joining a list of the nation's most endangered historic places.

Starbucks Corp. (SBUX) is making it easier for customers to count calories. Beginning June 25, Starbucks stores will post calorie counts on menu boards and pastry cases in all of its 11,100 U.S.

The company said it still saw "strategic value" in a merger with Sprint but that it would not submit a revised offer owing to Sprint's decision to terminate due diligence and accept a SoftBank offer.

The New-York based Deloitte Financial Advisory Services was fined and also banned for one year from work in New York state after the authorities said it did not carry out its duties independently in advising the bank on how to avoid money laundering.