Wix.com Ltd, the Israeli online provider of website management tools, chose to list in the tech oriented Nasdaq.

Managers of hedge funds said to Reuters the worry over the US government defaulting on its debt payments was not as dire as they had experienced during the days leading to the collapse of financial services firm Lehman Brothers.

A group of private equity investors, SoftBank and eBay had pumped in around USD150 to USD200 million worth of new funding to online marketplace Snapdeal.

Lehman Brothers' Australian creditors had approved a proposed insurance payment plan that allowed the company to receive around USD48 million.

Orient Corp, a Japanese consumer credit company, had been probed by authorities for lending to crime groups with Mizuho Financial Group Inc.

BlackRock Inc. had reduced its Hong Kong investment after slow growth in the economy, said a Bloomberg report.

BlackRock CEO Laurence D. Fink said the tapering by the US Federal Reserve would be extended until the March.

A payment of USD260.7 million was paid to Berkshire Hathaway for the exercise of its warrants from General Electric Co.

Wrigley issued a number of debt instruments with specific term lengths, yields and interest rates. An amount worth USD3 billion through a five bond offer was done by Mars Inc's Wm Wrigley Jr Co.

The European expansion plans of billionaire Carlos Slim was put on hold after failing to persuade the management of KPN to accept his takeover proposal.