Saudi Aramco is poised to pay a combined $64 million to the banks that arranged the world's largest initial public offering, a letdown for the Wall Street firms that pitched aggressively for a spot on the deal, people with knowledge of the matter said.

The chairman of Bangkok Bank's board of executive directors, Deja Tulananda, said on Friday (December 13) that he is confident the bank's decision to take over Indonesian bank PT Bank Permata Tbk (Permata) would be a profitable investment.

Doubts over how much agricultural goods China will buy as part of a preliminary trade pact with the U.S. dampened crop market optimism about the deal.

BEIJING - China confirmed Friday it had agreed to a partial trade deal with the United States, but neither government released a text, leaving investors confused about the agreement's significance.

Each morning, workers at Google get an internal newsletter called the "Daily Insider." Kent Walker, Google's top lawyer, set off a firestorm when he argued in the Nov. 14 edition that the 21-year old company had outgrown its policy of allowing workers to access nearly any internal document.