World energy consumption will rise rapidly over the next 20 years, pushing up costs and increasing greenhouse gases, unless a deal is reached to curb carbon dioxide emissions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday.

EA posted earnings on Monday that declined compared with last year, but profit topped analysts' forecasts. The company also announced layoffs of 1,500 positions in another round of restructuring and shares rose in extended trading.

For many women, a $1,000 dress is something they admire in the pages of a magazine. But a nascent Web site called Rent the Runway is hoping to make high-end fashions much more accessible and almost as easy as renting a movie from Netflix, says the New York Times.

China will lift gasoline and diesel prices by around 7 percent from 1600 GMT on Monday to reflect the rising cost of crude oil, taking pump prices to their highest ever, a government official told Reuters on Monday.

The U.S. economy could face a double-dip recession next year, in the absence of stimulus measures and extended incentive programs, Kirby Daley, senior strategist at Newedge Group, said Monday.

Nokia will replace 14 million cell phone chargers made by China's BYD Co Ltd as chargers could fall apart and expose consumers to risk of electrical shock.

The Federal Reserve could remove some of the extraordinary support it has extended to the U.S. economy once the recovery looks solid and monthly job growth has returned, a top U.S. central bank official told the Financial Times.

Consumers borrowed less for a record eighth straight month in September amid rising unemployment and tight credit conditions.

A new report, released by employment Web site CareerBuilder.com, ranked the top metro areas with the most job postings on the site between January and October 2009.

Wal-Mart Stores is upping the ante heading into the holiday season, trimming the online preorder prices of some upcoming DVDs following last month's price cut on books.

U.S. employers cut a deeper-than-expected 190,000 jobs in October, driving the unemployment rate to 10.2 percent, the highest in 26-1/2 years.

The U.S. unemployment rate blasted past the psychologically important 10-percent mark Friday as nonfarm payrolls fell by 190,000 last month. It's the first time the unemployment rate -- now at 10.2 percent -- was in double digits since June 1983.

Leisure destinations are recovering but traditional business destinations remain weak, said Barney Harford, Orbitz Worldwide CEO on Thursday.   "The green shoots of the recovery are coming from the leisure sector,” he told CNBC’s Becky Quick on “Squawk Box.”

Non-farm productivity in the third quarter rose at its fastest pace in six years as companies squeezed more output from a smaller pool of labor and cut costs to deal with a slump in demand.

Despite signs of improved foot traffic at retail stores, the majority of retailers posted same-store sales Thursday that fell short of estimates.