From the first trading day after the strike was announced, Aug. 8, through the close of business on Aug. 17, Verizon shares rose 7.52 percent.
Barclays fired one of its star commodities traders yesterday, marking what could be the end of an era.
HPQ shares are down about 6.1 percent as of 3:15 p.m. (New York time).
A band of showers has offered some relief to parched areas from Kansas to Mississippi Thursday, but the historic drought causing billions of dollars in losses in the South is showing no signs of abating soon.
The company is set to expand beyond North America in the new year.
The Dow Theory confirms what the market is demonstrating today: It’s time to sell stocks as the economy barrels towards another recession
Google Inc.'s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings will have positive implications for Nokia Corp. and Apple Inc., but Research In Motion and HTC will have a neutral impact, Barclays Capital said in a note.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average took a nose dive during Thursday trading, dropping more than four percent at times during trading. As the stock markets dropped across the board it raises the question -- at what level do circuit breakers cut in to stop a stock market from crashing?
Oil prices saw a major sell-off in early August, an event that foretold the North American stock market crash today.
T-Mobile's 4G-enabled BlackBerry Bold 9900, which is powered by Research In Motion's BlackBerry OS 7, is set to hit shelves on Aug. 31 with pre-orders already started for business customers.
Stocks tumbled in New York after the opening bell this morning, prompting fears that America is heading into another deep economic recession.
Stocks tumbled in New York after the opening bell this morning, prompting fears that America is heading into another deep economic recession.
A top official of Standard & Poor's said, France will retain its AAA rating, allaying fears of possible downgrade of the country?s rating due to ongoing eurozone debt crisis.
The Arabic network?s Kabul bureau chief has been held in prison since August 10 after being detained in occupied West Bank.
The glitzy Gulf emirate of Dubai launches a gas strategy aimed at meeting rising energy demand.
Google Inc.'s Android is dominating smartphone sales in Australia, overtaking Apple Inc.'s iOS for the first time, according to a new research.
Standard & Poor's, the ratings agency that deprived the United States of its AAA rating, is being probed by the Department of Justice over credit ratings of several mortgage securities that led to the financial crisis in 2008.
Stock index futures pointed to a sharply lower open on Wall Street on Thursday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 2 percent, Dow Jones futures down 1.5 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 2.2 percent at 5:17 a.m. EDT.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Wednesday are: Qihoo 360 Technology, CONSOL Energy, Eastman Kodak, CACI International and Brookdale Senior Living. The top after-market NYSE losers are: International Rectifier, MGM Resorts International, Invesco Mortgage Capital, EMC Corp and Guess?, Inc.
European equities followed Asian stocks lower Thursday as investors fretting about the global growth outlook cut exposure to riskier assets, while the Swiss franc fell on talk the central bank was intervening in the forwards market.
Google's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings probably will not lead Microsoft to respond by buying Nokia, an industry analyst says.
Asian stocks fell Thursday on profit-taking by nervous investors, while the Swiss franc stayed firm after plans to curb the currency disappointed those looking for more drastic action.
Toronto's main stock index jumped more than 1 percent on Wednesday morning as rising commodity prices and healthy U.S. earnings pushed euro zone fears to the background and boosted risk appetite.
Canadian policymakers could provide important clues about spending plans and interest rates on Friday when a rare midsummer parliamentary committee meeting examines market instability and foreign debt crises.
Canadian manufacturing sales slid more than expected in June, while sales of existing homes were flat in July, data on Tuesday showed, offering new signals that the Canadian economy is slowing.
An Iraqi man is suing the country's leaders to demand his fair share of the Arab state's oil wealth.
Clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch saw its stock price drop nearly 10 percent Wednesday after it asked Michael Sorrentino, "The Situation," of "The Jersey Shore" not to wear its clothes. This was the first trading session after the company publicly offended the young man by offering him and his co-stars "substantial payment" to stop wearing Abercrombie & Fitch clothes.
New research from Global Web Index shows sharp declines among Facebook users in some of the world's biggest markets including the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Funds of Funds in Africa are beating the market and also are posting less correlated and volatile returns.
Two industries ? retail and consumer packaged goods ? will account for the largest shares of new ad spending this year.
