Mark Brooks

The monitor overseeing the $25 billion settlement says that the lenders provided the relief between March 1 and Sept. 30, to more than 300,000 borrowers.

Most metals are closing lower.

Visa says in a regulatory filing that the FTC asked for information about a voluntary program for merchants that accept debit cards with the Visa logo, on Sept. 21.

Of the major oil- and gas-producing states, Louisiana gained five rigs, Colorado three, and California and West Virginia one each.

The Allied Pilots Association said Friday its board voted 12-4 to accept a tentative agreement with American.

The Federal Trade Commission reached the agreement with Google in August, but court approval is still needed.

An explosion and fire ripped through a Gulf oil platform Friday as workers used a cutting torch, sending four people to a hospital with burns and leaving two missing in waters off Louisiana.

It is the latest case against major financial firms for their conduct in the years preceding the 2008 crisis.

"I believe that we can do this," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said after top lawmakers met with Obama at the White House.

January benchmark crude futures rose by $1.03 to $86.90 per barrel in afternoon trading in New York.

The Treasury Department says total foreign holdings rose to $5.46 trillion in September, up 0.1 percent from August.

Presented to U.S. District Judge Robert Chambers in Huntington for consideration, the agreement stemmed from water pollution lawsuits filed by the Sierra Club, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition and West Virginia Highlands Conservancy.

The Beaverton, Ore.-based company said Thursday both classes of its stock will split on Dec. 24.

The two-hour outage held up morning flights around the globe.

Gold for December delivery dropped $16.30 Thursday to finish at $1,713.80 per ounce.

JetBlue expects a similar impact in November because demand was slow to pick up again after the storm.

Between January and October, 971,533 homes were placed on the path to foreclosure, down 8 percent from the same period last year, foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac said Thursday.

The euro rose to $1.2778 in afternoon trading from $1.2745 late Wednesday.

In afternoon trading benchmark crude dropped 88 cents at $85.44 in New York.

Official figures Thursday showed that the eurozone contracted by 0.1 percent in the July to September period from the quarter before as economies including Germany and the Netherlands suffer from falling demand.