Private-equity firm Bain Capital will acquire Japanese call-center operator Bellsystem24 from Citigroup in a deal that values the business around 100 billion yen.

Florida attorney Scott Rothstein's fast rise came to a crashing halt last month after investors alleged that he had sold them stakes in phony employment-dispute settlements.

Potential buyers have emerged to vie for control of BHP Billiton's failed Ravensthorpe nickel operation in Western Australia state.

Andy Warhol's "Brillo Box" sold for $842,500 at a contemporary art sale at New York auction house Phillips de Pury. The overall sale brought in $7.1 million and rounded out two weeks of major art auctions in the city.

U.K.Chancellor of the Exchequer, Darling lambasted the former shareholders of Britain's failed and government-rescued banks for what he called their failure to exercise their responsibilities as owners.