The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: SIGA Technologies, Sky-mobi, Northwest Bancshares, Shanda Games, and Cytori Therapeutics. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Life Partners Holdings, Achillion Pharmaceuticals, China Recycling Energy, Zhongpin, and SciClone Pharmaceuticals.
Shares of Motorola were slammed by the market on Monday after analysts expressed poor performance on what should be strong points for the company.
The anticipation for Apple's next generation iPhone 5 -- or in some circles, the iPhone 4s -- has exploded beyond a frenzy and reached more of a mania, with some observers not only predicting one phone, but two.
Premier Wen Jiabao called on Monday for freedom and real democracy in China, despite Beijing clamping down on dissent this year, as calls were made for a “Jasmine” revolution similar to uprisings in the Arab world.
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde is expected to be chosen as early as Tuesday to be the new leader of the International Monetary Fund, The Associated Press reported.
Ratings agency Moody's says Japan's debt level may lead to the country's third consecutive lost decade.
China could order dozens of Airbus jetliners during a visit by Premier Wen Jiabao to Berlin according to sources, but the deals are clouded by a spat between Beijing and Europe over aviation carbon tariffs.
Internet giant Google's tussles with some governments over Internet censorship could get worse, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said on Monday, adding he feared his own colleagues faced mounting danger of occasional arrest and torture.
British Prime Minister David Cameron asserted that he will push Chinese premier Wen Jiabao on the contentious issue of human rights in China, as the two nations have signed a huge trade deal valued at £1.4-billion.
After a diplomatic meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron in London, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said that Beijing supports a political resolution to the conflict in Libya.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao signaled for the first time that China would struggle to meet its 4 percent inflation target this year, underlining expectations that interest rates will rise further even as economic growth slows down.
China is looking into accounting issues involving Chinese companies listed in North America, an official at the country's securities regulator said in the watchdog's first public remarks since a series of accounting scandals.
China faces a housing bubble crisis and $1.6 trillion in debt owed by local governments that threatens global economic powers, including the U.S.
Germany and China will discuss the euro and world currency system reforms during a visit by Premier Wen Jiabao, a German government source said, as Berlin said it would welcome more Chinese firms as long-term investors.
China released a comprehensive review of the massive debt of its local governments on Monday and curtailed their future borrowing, taking its first major step to prevent widespread defaults from destabilizing its vast economy.
With its fully reclining airline-style business class seats, a strict no-smoking policy and designed top speed of 350 km (220 miles) per hour, the new Beijing-Shanghai express embodies China's race to the future.
Nissan Motor outlined plans to boost both its global market share and profit margin to 8 percent within six years, promising a new vehicle every six weeks on average to woo consumers away from rivals.
A Chinese-language commercial Times quoted Dan Heyler, a semiconductor analyst with Merrill Lynch in Taipei hinting the upcoming arrival of iPhone 6 in 2012.
Barclays Capital has addressed the reasons it believes shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) have underperformed the sector since February. Apple stock has fallen 3.82 percent between February 1 and June 24.
General Motors India showcased the electric version of its small car, 'Beat', as part of a global demonstration of the technology.
Premier Wen Jiabao signaled for the first time that China would struggle to meet its 4 percent inflation target this year.
There were 347 million people with diabetes worldwide in 2008, according to international team of researchers working with The World Health Organization (WHO).
