ECONOMY & MARKETS

Shares of Apple Inc reorganized on Monday after Wall Street brushed off the shock of the explosion last week that shut down a Foxconn factory in China producing its popular iPad

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: HiSoft Technology International, GT Solar International, Cninsure, Perfect World, and Novavax. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Identive Group, Silicon Image, DragonWave, Fortinet, and Ariba.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Monday are: Telecom Corp of New Zealand, Varian Medical Systems, Hess Corp, Thomas & Betts and Sequans Communications. The top after-market NYSE losers are: iSoftStone Holdings, Chico's FAS, Jabil Circuit, Frontier Oil Corp and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.

Can Harold Camping make a “Doomsday” prediction for the U.S. dollar?

Wedbush Securities said its channel checks point to continued market share expansion for Harley-Davidson, Inc. (NYSE: HOG). The brokerage maintained its outperform rating on shares of Harley-Davidson with a price target of $48.

A new malware attack in Mac has caused a queue of Apple customers reporting infected machines, renewing a timeless debate on the state of Macintosh security versus Windows.

Infosys Technologies, India’s second largest outsourcer, continued its expansion in China by setting up a new campus at the Zizhu Science and Technology Park in Shanghai and planned investment up to $150 million, reports said

The Gold Price in Euros shot to a new all-time high of €34,746 per kilogram (€1080 per ounce) - 1% above Friday's close. The Euro price to Buy Gold has risen 16% since this time last year.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Identive Group, Santarus, Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Orckit Communications, and Sangamo Biosciences. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Travelzoo, Hanwha SolarOne, JDS Uniphase, Aixtron, Apollo Investment, and LM Ericsson Telephone.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Monday are: Sequans Communications, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts , AK Steel Holding, Valero Energy Corp, Sony Corp, Carnival Corp, Hess Corp, Freeport-McMoRan, Deere & Co and Halliburton Co.

Sony cut its outlook for fiscal year ended March 31 and now expects a loss of $3.18 billion for the period as it took a hefty charge over impact of Japanese earthquake on its operations.

FBR Capital Markets upgraded its rating on shares of Nara Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NARA) to "outperform" from "market perform" ahead of near-term catalysts and recent pullback, with a price target of $10.

Crude oil prices plunged more than 2 percent to below $98 a barrel in Europe as renewed concerns over the euro zone debt crisis sent the U.S. dollar higher, which made commodities more expensive.

Apple has submitted a patent that plans to install better security facilities on its systems, reports said

Criticisms have flared up this week if Google Android 2.3 operating system, Gingerbread, is already within the Android 3.0 Honeycomb.

After Chinese government tightened the monetary policy in April for four times, the manufacturing growth of the country slowed in May, while price pressures eased, according to a survey showed on Monday, Reuters reported.

Analysts say if Facebook has its IPO, before the social networking market corrects itself, it could easily be the biggest ever.

Increased Charges of Wireless connections on tablet computers is urging consumers to use free Wi-Fi rather than invest on cellular network along with the high price of the network.

iPad 2 users will now have the option of using the updated Yahoo! Messenger version 2.1 for video and voice calls.

The United States is still lagging behind other industrialized countries in terms of broadband adoption and download speed, according to a report released by the Federal Communications Commission on Friday.

Toshio Nishizawa took over as the president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) on Friday.

Markets have tanked in May not because of the Doomsday prediction of Harold Camping. Rather, investors are scared of the 'Armageddon' on June 30, 2011 - the end of QE2.

Analysts are positive LinkedIn's high stock price will eventually correct itself.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Opnext, Acorda Therapeutics, Red Robin Gourmet, BioSante Pharmaceuticals, STEC, AEterna Zentaris and Human Genome Sciences. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Popular, Nordson and Immunogen.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Friday are: Barnes & Noble, Salesforce.com, Anadarko Petroleum, Sprint Nextel Corp, Gap, Aeropostale, Ann, American Eagle Outfitters, LinkedIn Corp and LDK Solar.

Shares of LinkedIn, a professional networking site, soared as high as $122 on its first day of trading on New York Stock Exchange.

Shares of LinkedIn soared as high as $122 on its first day of trading on New York Stock Exchange, bringing back memories of tech bubble in late 1990s when investors lapped up internet firms.

Mobile phones have nudged away the wallets in UK to buy food, books and other stuff up to a value of £15 by pre-loading their cell phones with up to £100.

Microsoft, in a report, has announced students who buy a new PC for $699 or more will get a free Xbox 360 4GB console.