Major U.S. retailers missed fewer Christmas deliveries this year, according to two small, early surveys released on Friday, partly reflecting a year's worth of investments made to avoid 2013's last-minute shipping debacle.
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Japan Post: IPO to include separate listings of bank, insurance units
Government-owned Japan Post Holdings Co Ltd [IPO-JAPP.T] said it plans to list in the second half of the next business year and its bank and insurance units will go public at the same time, in what could be the biggest IPO of Japanese state enterprises in two decades.
Amazon draws 10 million new Prime members over holidays
Amazon.com Inc said on Friday it drew more than 10 million new members to its Prime shipping and digital content service over the holidays and intends to offer one-hour shipping to more cities in 2015.
Wall Street Week Ahead: Big questions for markets for 2015
Wall Street was generally calmer in 2014 than in previous years, but that doesn't mean the stock market was devoid of drama. Big selloffs in biotechnology and social media stocks had strategists predicting doom in the spring, and the plunge in oil prices has clouded the outlook for the coming year.
Visa, MasterCard stop supporting bank cards in Crimea
The world's two largest credit and debit card companies, Visa Inc and MasterCard Inc, said on Friday they could no longer support bank cards being used in Crimea, following U.S. sanctions imposed earlier this month.
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Oil prices fell Friday, tumbling as the dollar strengthened and as a supply glut in top consumer, the United States, trumped worries about falling production from Libya.
According to state prison officials, Oscar Pistorius along with other high-profile prisoners do not get special treatment, even for Christmas. Meanwhile, the court under judge Thokozile Masipa allowed the state to appeal for Pistorius acquittal from the murder charge he was slapped with.
U.S. stocks ended higher on Friday, with both the Dow and S&P 500 closing at records in a broad rally, though trading was light with many market participants still out for the Christmas holiday.
"Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice is said to be considering leaving her kids to her friends instead of her husband Joe as her sentence awaits at Danbury prison.
Coach Freddie Roach sounds off reports about Floyd Mayweather Jr. fighting Manny Pacquaio soon. Will the highly-anticipated boxing match of the season happen next year? According to Manny Pacquaio's coach, it should be so, if Floyd Mayweather Jr.
The Lizard Squad owned up to the recent outage of Sony Corp's PlayStation Network and Microsoft Corp's Xbox Live, which started on Christmas Day. The outage happened just after Sony issued a statement that it will release "The Interview" online.
An advertisement from Glasgow is looking for two new Power Rangers months after Lionsgate and Saban announced their plans for a live-action reboot of the TV series.
Mark Wahlberg shared to MTV News about the latest updates on "Transformers 5." Just when fans of the "Transformers" film franchise has stopped holding out hope for another sequel, actor Mark Wahlberg managed to revive that zest to make that installment happen once again.
The Party Down South 2 cast has something to smile about on Christmas-partying under the mistletoe! Read more about Raven and Bradley's relationship here.
