MF Global Ltd , a futures and options broker that has just launched a Japan equity research-led team, said on Tuesday it will expand its operations in Japan to as many as 55 staff or a 28 percent rise by March.

NEW YORK—-A briefing published today by Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC looks ahead to the possible effects of inflation on long-tail reinsurance, as well as the impact of the credit crunch on reinsurers in the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis.

TAIPEI, Taiwan—-Chen Hsiung-wen, chief executive officer of the 2010 Taipei International Gardening and Horticulture Exposition, sincerely hopes to create for the Taipei Expo a beautiful and colorful new horizon.

Oil prices held steady on Tuesday with investors perched on the fence ahead of an OPEC meeting on Wednesday, which analysts believe may see more rhetoric on compliance but no change in output targets.

Until this summer, salesman Jorge Ocampo had always been what he calls a W-2 man. Proof was the Mercedes he bought with cash. But he had always longed to be his own boss.

U.S. gold futures hit a six-month high of $1,000 and spot gold also rose to six-month high on Tuesday as the dollar’s weakness, concerns about the sustainability of global economic recovery and worries about future inflation underpinned sentiment.

International Paper Co. and two brothers who were severely burned when a boiler exploded at a Mississippi plant have until Friday to submit proposals to settle a federal lawsuit.