The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Intersil, Expedia, and ON Semiconductor. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Team, Meru Networks, Prospect Capital, Royal Gold, and Sify Technologies.
On April 7, European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet will almost certainly announce a 0.25 percent interest rate hike. After April 7, the best short-term play is probably to short the euro
Texas Instruments buys National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion; the latter's stock soars in after-hours trading.
The latest Commitment of Traders (COT) report shows that investors have piled $3.6 billion into AUD/USD futures in the week ended March 29, pushing the level to a record-high $8.8 billion.
Shares of Omnivision were battered on Monday after reports surfaced this weekend suggesting that the company had lost a major contract to supply Apple with camera parts to Sony.
US stocks are mixed in Monday’s session as investors wait for the Fedspeak due later this week.
US stocks are mixed on Monday as optimism over last Friday’s non-farm payrolls (NFP) report proved short-lived and grim global realities set in.
WTI oil prices are pushing $108 per barrel and Brent prices are nearing $120 per barrel. Such prices are unsustainable, according to Credit Agricole.
Wedbush Securities expects VeriSign Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) to continue to return capital to investors through 2011. The brokerage maintained its neutral rating on shares of VeriSign with a price target of $38.
The US dollar continued to fall in Q1 2011. It lost 2.4 percent against G10 currencies, similar to the pace of decline in Q4 2010 but more moderate compared to the 8.4 percent QE2-induced drop in Q3 2010.
The Gold Price rose early Monday in London, nearing last week's high of $1439 per ounce as energy prices led a surge in commodity prices and Silver Bullion jumped 1.9% to fresh 31-year highs.
U.S. stocks advanced in early trade on Monday as investors looked to extend a two-week winning streak in the major indexes.
The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants, VIVUS, Orexigen Therapeutics, Star Scientific, and Optimer Pharmaceuticals. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: OmniVision Technologies, DepoMed, TD AMERITRADE Holding, Logitech International, and Check Point Software Technologies.
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) said it agreed to sell its Capsugel business, a maker of hard capsules, to private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Robert & Co. for $2.375 billion in cash.
A professor from the University of Tennessee analyzed the economic impact of the loss of bats in North America in agriculture and found it to be roughly $22.9 billion a year, with the extremes ranging as low as $3.7 and $53 billion a year.
Kofax Plc said completion of the sale of its non-core hardware business has been delayed by around two months. Jefferies & Co. said the delayed hardware business sale does not impact its investment case.
U.S. stocks ended higher on Friday on strong jobs data. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 56.99 points, or 0.46 percent, to 12,376.72. The Standard & Poor's 500 advanced 6.58 points, or 0.50 percent, to 1,332.41. The Nasdaq Composite rose 8.53 points, or 0.31 percent, to 2,789.60.
Shares of Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFMI) touched a new 52-week high of $66.87 on Friday.
The Australian stock market closed higher on Friday on stronger international oil prices and as investors looked past overseas negatives to forthcoming economic data from the United States.
During the height of the financial crisis, banks around the world lined up to borrow money from the discount window of the Federal Reserve. In the few months before and after Lehman Brother’s collapse on September 15, 2008, billions were lent out.
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said that it has downgraded its sovereign credit ratings on the Republic of Ireland to 'BBB+/A-2'.
The companies whose shares are actively trading in Friday's morning session include Bank of Ireland, Alexander & Baldwin, NYSE Euronext, SRA International, Logitech International, Office Depot, Ascent Solar and Omeros.
U.S. stocks advanced in early trade on Friday following better-than-expected monthly non-farm payrolls and unemployment data.
The amount of competitive new launches near-term is making it a little bit tougher for Motorola Mobility, especially for its Xoom tablet.
The number of people employed in the non-farming businesses in the US rose more than expected in March, showing that economic recovery in the nation is on track.
The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Golar LNG, Star Scientific, Ebix, Sino Clean Energy, and AEterna Zentaris. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Omeros, Atrinsic, Logitech International, Ascent Solar Technologies, Xyratex, and Nasdaq OMX Group.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Friday are: NYSE Euronext, Bristol Myers Squibb, Huntington Bancshares, United Parcel Service, NASDAQ OMX Group, IntercontinentalExchange, Jds Uniphase and Visa.
Auriga USA LLC expects optical transport network to get increasingly crowded with players like PMC-Sierra Inc. (PMCS), Broadcom Corp. (BRCM), NetLogic Microsystems Inc. (NETL), and potentially even FPGA (field-programmable gate array) vendor Altera Corp. (ALTR) vying to build application specific standard products (ASSP) to target this space.
U.S. stocks ended mixed on Thursday as investors awaited Friday’s Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report, while slightly weaker-than-expected economic reports on jobless claims and Chicago Purchasing Managers index weighed on the sentiment.
Shares of Biogen Idec Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB) touched a new 52-week high of $73.53 on Thursday. The company and its partner Knopp Biosciences announced enrollment of the first patient in EMPOWER, a multi-national Phase III study evaluating the efficacy, safety and pharmacokinetics of dexpramipexole in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
