Malaysia, the world's No. 2 palm oil producer has set its duty-free export quota for crude palm oil at 3.6 million metric tons for the year ahead after several weeks of delay, industry executives said late Saturday.

Sales of Apple's iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G and iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G resumed after a permanent injunction had gone into effect early Friday morning. 

Two-thirds of Citigroup's (NYSE:C) $21.9 billion in total net income for the last two years came from an accounting maneuver.  

The domestic investment arm of China's sovereign-wealth fund said Friday it will allow three major Chinese lenders in which it owns stakes to cut their dividend ratios by 5 percentage points to 35% in 2011.

The Senate passed an amendment on Thursday that forces operatives who collect political intelligence in Washington for sale in the banking industry or on Wall Street to register in the same way as lobbyists do.

The U.S. unemployment rate is widely expected to stay put at 8.8% when the April labor numbers are released on Friday.

For the first time in the history of the Federal Reserve, its chairman will meet with reporters next week to answer questions on Fed policy.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) granted Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein restricted stock valued at $7.2 million as of Friday's close as part of his 2011 compensation.

Verizon's new iPhone drew sparse crowds, a far cry from the mania that usually surrounds a nationwide Apple product debut.