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BP said it has spent around $8 billion in response to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and expects to resume its relief-well drilling shortly.

One of the world's most prospective gold companies, Andean Resources of Australia, has become the subject of a bidding war between two Canadian companies.

TPG sold its remaining stake in Ping An Insurance for $1.16 billion in the latest example of how the U.S. company is reaping profits from its investments in Asia.

Toshiba said that it will release by year-end a tablet computer that runs on Google's Android operating system as the company aims to compete with Apple's iPad.

Roche said it has launched a cost-cutting and efficiency plan in the wake of increased price pressures and a series of drug-development setbacks.

Fed chief Ben Bernanke told a panel that he had no options to prevent Lehman Brothers' failure in September 2008 even though he knew its downfall would be "catastrophic."