Interest rates on new credit card offers stayed put for the second straight week.

The trustee unwinding MF Global Holdings Ltd.'s (MFGLQ) brokerage wants to recover $20 million for customers from a commodities firm that extended a line of credit to MF Global in 2002.

A new federal office meant to help prevent future financial calamities said Friday it would focus its upcoming research on what is known as the shadow banking system and short-term funding markets as it looks to head off potential crises.

Oil field services companies Schlumberger Ltd. (SLB) and Baker Hughes Inc. (BHI) on Friday surprised Wall Street with better-than-forecast second-quarter results at a time when their businesses face rising costs in North America and global economic uncertainty.

Large oil producer Occidental Petroleum (OXY) has hired former Goldman Sachs (GS) banker Cynthia Walker as Chief Financial Officer and executive vice president.

Gold futures shook off early weakness to end modestly higher on Friday, as the rally in agriculture commodities continued and some traders saw in it the threat of inflation.

U.S. crude oil prices slid more than 1% on Friday as worries about the eurozone debt crisis weighed on traders' sentiment.

Google Inc. (GOOG) has acquired email technology developer Sparrow, as the Internet search giant seeks to bolster its Gmail service.