Gilberto Reza

Argentina's Pan American Energy said Wednesday it has restored most of the oil and gas production at its Cerro Dragon field almost four weeks after contract workers took over the area and trashed many of its facilities.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) Chairman and Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein said the bank isn't aiming to compete with large commercial and consumer lenders, even as it pursues more-traditional banking activities after its switch to a bank-holding company during the throes of the financial crisis.

U.S. Bancorp's (USB) second-quarter profit rose 18% as the lender posted strengthening revenue from business and mortgage lending.

Chile's need to bulk up its power supplies to meet rising demand is facing another setback as one of its important electricity-generation projects might be delayed due to environment-based legal challenges.

Was Bove arguing that submitting inaccurate interest rates was justified if the economy benefited? I’m still not sure what his answer is to that.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) Chairman and Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein said the bank isn't aiming to compete with large commercial and consumer lenders, even as it pursues more-traditional banking activities after its switch to a bank-holding company during the throes of the financial crisis.

One of the two reactors at Exelon Corp.'s (EXC) Limerick nuclear plant in Montgomery County, Pa., was shut down after an electrical fault in a transformer, according to reports from Reuters and the Express-Times.

U.S. Bancorp. (USB) plans to sell $1.3 billion of subordinate bonds Wednesday, just hours after reporting that second-quarter profits rose from a year earlier. The 10-year subordinate bonds are expected to offer investors a yield of 1.50 percentage points more than the Treasury rate. They are

New Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) Chief Executive Marissa Mayer wasn't the only top executive to skip the company's earnings call with Wall Street analysts Tuesday: Interim CEO Ross Levinsohn, who had been running the company prior to Ms. Mayer's hiring, was also absent.

HALFAYA, Iraq--PetroChina Co. Ltd. (PTR, 0857.HK, 601857.SH, K3OD.SG) and its partners Total SA (TOT, FP.FR) and Petronas Calgari, said Wednesday oil production has commenced at the Halfaya oil field in southern Iraq.