Aircraft manufacturer Boeing wins a lucrative $35bn (£21.6bn) contract to provide the US with 179 aerial refuelling tankers.

Troubled insurer AIG has seen its profits increase in the fourth quarter mainly through sales of assets.

High food and fuel costs slow Japanese deflation in January, but analysts warn the problem has not dissipated.

Huawei asks US authorities to investigate its operations after a takeover bid was halted on security concerns.

Deutsche Bank gets 1bn won ($887,000) fine after South Korea's regulators say its staff manipulated the stock market.

Oil prices have retreated, after hitting multi-year highs, on optimism that crude producers can offset a drop in supply.

Lloyds Banking Group returns to profit for the first time since it was bailed out by the government during the financial crisis.

International Consolidated Airlines Group - the parent of British Airways and Iberia - reports a pre-tax profit of 21m euros for the last three months of 2010.