Brazil’s unemployment rate fell to a record low in 2010, as the country’s economy records the fastest growth since 1985.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Thursday are: Netflix, Teradyne, Qualcomm, Symantec, AT&T, Goodyear Tire & Rubber and Procter & Gamble.
Egypt's stock exchange reopened after being suspended on Thursday and the benchmark index .EGX30 extended its decline to 8.2 percent from 6.2 percent before the halt.
Retail sales in debt-stricken Spain fell sharply in December 2010, recording a decline in sales for the sixth consecutive month.
Futures on major U.S. stock indices point to a modestly higher opening on Thursday ahead of economic data including durable goods orders and pending home sales as well as slew of earnings reports.
The U.S. Treasury could sell all of its stock in General Motors Co. within the next year, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing an unidentified Treasury official.
The companies which are expected to see active trade on Thursday are: Microsoft, Motorola, Procter & Gamble, Amazon, AT&T, Altria Group, Caterpillar, Colgate-Palmolive and Eli Lilly.
U.K. start up Ubiquisys has rolled out a portable cell phone signal - dubbed the attocell - that allows people travelling abroad to make and receive calls as if in their home country.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Wednesday are: AMB Property, Teradyne, ProLogis, Astoria Financial and DCT Industrial Trust. The top after-market NYSE losers on Wednesday are: Quantum Corp, Murphy Oil, Motorola, Robert Half International and LDK Solar.
The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Netflix, Qualcomm, Tractor Supply, Integrated Silicon Solution, and Abington Bancorp. The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Rex Energy, Southern National Bancorp of Virginia, Starbucks, E*Trade Financial, and Verigy.
China's annual economic growth is expected to ease to about 9 percent in the first quarter while consumer inflation is projected at 5 percent, according to a government think tank report published in the official Chinese Securities Journal on Thursday.
Goldman Sachs on Thursday downgraded motorcycle maker Hero Honda and utility vehicles maker Mahindra & Mahindra to sell, from neutral and buy ratings respectively.
The BSE Sensex erased early gains and was trading down 0.4 percent on Thursday, as the near-term outlook for foreign funds' interest was far from promising due to better prospects elsewhere.
Jack Plunkett, CEO of Plunkett Research, believes the U.S. economy is headed towards a secular boom between now and 2025.
Gold rose on Wednesday, snapping a four-day losing streak, after the Federal Reserve's lukewarm economic assessment and its plan to complete its bond-buying program boosted bullion's safe-haven appeal.
Boeing Co. E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. drive Dow to highest point since June 2008.
History has shown that the ratio between the median cost of a new home and the median household income in the U.S. is a key indicator of how the overall economy will perform.
Unless the U.S. addresses [its] fiscal problem, we’re going to see a train wreck, said Nouriel Roubini.
The much-admired Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has been rocked by a shocking scandal.
Algeria must urgently create jobs for its young unemployed, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a report published on Wednesday, highlighting a problem that has fuelled unrest throughout the region.
Dow hits 12,000 as U.S. stocks post moderate gains in mid-morning trading
Algeria confirmed it bought almost a million tonnes of wheat on Wednesday and ordered an urgent speeding up of grain imports, a move seen heading off unrest over food prices as protests swept north Africa.
New sales offers from the Ivory Coast for cocoa beans and products such as cocoa butter and powder have come to a virtual stop, several major European physical cocoa traders said on Wednesday.
Nervous investors may begin liquidating some of their substantial positions in Egyptian equities and securities if the unprecedented political protests that thrashed the market on Wednesday gain momentum.
Saudi Arabia will boost contract crude sales by 10 percent to Asia's biggest refiner Sinopec this year as the world's top oil exporter cements its share of the world's fastest growing fuel market.
New home sales in the U.S. in December climbed to 329,000 on annual basis, official data showed on Wednesday, suggesting that the housing market remained moderately robust despite an unsustainable unemployment rate and high foreclosures.
Toyota has issued a recall of 1.7 million cars, its largest ever, mainly in its Lexus brand
US stocks are trading mixed in early trade on Wednesday as declines from Boeing weighed on Dow, while investors and markets await the US Federal Reserve’s meeting and interest rate decision.
Both Bush and Clinton Adminstrations were at fault, as well as former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and current Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, as well as former Treasury chief Henry Paulson, says inquiry
The companies that reported earnings before the markets open on Wednesday are: Boeing, ConocoPhillips, Abbott, General Dynamics, United Technologies, Southern Co., Hess, Xerox, Rockwell Automation and Wellpoint.
