Markets surged as soon as the calendar turned to 2013 and kept rising for much of the month, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average to near-record levels. February started off equally strong. But some watchers worry that the market may have gotten ahead of itself.
Barclays CEO Bob Diamond resigned Tuesday in the face of massive public pressure after the bank was fined $453 million for fraudulently manipulating a key international interest rate for its own profit.
The world's largest retailer, Walmart Stores, wants to get even larger: It has joined the bidding war for Indonesian retailer Matahari's hypermarket business, Hypermart, a deal that could be worth up to $1 billion, unnamed sources told Reuters on Thursday.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday about whether former Enron executive, Jeffrey Skilling, should get a new trial in a venue other than Houston, where his first trial took place.