The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: optionsXpress Holdings, Gulfport Energy, Veeco Instruments, Horizon Technology Finance, Bruker, NGP Capital Resources, SunPower, Huntington Bancshares, Logitech International, and Powerwave Technologies.
Producer prices for finished goods in the U.S. rose more than expected in November, posting an increase for the fifth straight month.
Futures on major U.S. stock indices point to modestly higher opening on Tuesday, following better-than-expected reports on retail sales and producer prices.
The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Genoptix, Sanderson Farms, Infinera, Amgen, Ness Technologies, MannKind, Silicom, Comcast, NVIDIA, and Orexigen Therapeutics.
Futures on major U.S. stock indices point to a modestly higher opening on Tuesday ahead of a wave of economic data including the US Federal Open Market Committee statement (FOMC).
DNA sequencing equipment maker Life Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:LIFE) announced the launch of its Ion Personal Gene Machine (PGM) sequencer that gives results in two hours.
German economic sentiment rose more than expected in December, posting an increase for a second consecutive month.
Futures on major U.S. stock indices point to a modestly lower opening on Tuesday as investors awaited a wave of economic data including the US Federal Federal Open Market Committee statement (FOMC)
Japan will lower the corporate tax rate by 4.5 percent to spur the economy out of deflation, Nikkei reported on Tuesday.
Gleacher & Co. initiated coverage on Check Point Software with a 'buy' rating and price target of $55 on potential benefits from growing network security market.
U.K. chipmaker Imagination Technologies, which licenses and sells its designs to Intel and Apple, said interim pretax profits doubled on strong revenue growth from both licensing and royalties. The volume of partner chips shipping with Imagination’s IP has nearly doubled to 107 million.
A new study has found that the risk of elderly black Americans facing poverty was double that of elderly white Americans. It says although 32.7 percent of older white Americans will experience at least one year below the official poverty line, the corresponding percentage for older black Americans was double that at 64.6 percent.
Bunzl Plc, Britain's distribution and outsourcing company, sees full year group revenue growth to be between 3 percent and 4 percent boosted by acquisitions.
The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Home Inns & Hotels Management, Landec, Gulfport Energy, XOMA, Harmonic, Charter Communications, Limelight Networks, Sequenom, and Novellus Systems.
The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Genoptix, Infinera, Amgen, Powerwave Technologies, Pixelworks, SmartHeat, Endwave, SuperMedia, Cytokinetics, and YRC Worldwide.
A late-day sell-off, ahead of the U.S. Senate vote on the compromised tax bill, pushed the major equity indices to session lows, resulting in a mixed performance for stocks.
AUD/JPY jumped to a 7-month high on Monday but not broken the discipline of a broad upward channel it has been holding since end-May.
U.S. stocks advanced in early trade on Monday, following the gains in global equities, after Chinese policymakers refrained from raising interest rates over the weekend.
GBP/USD that rose above the key 1.5838 level to a 2-week high of 1.5860 on Friday slipped on Monday despite a stronger-than-expected data and is now targeting 1.5649 as immediate support (S1).
Scientific instruments maker Thermo Fisher Scientific said it agreed to acquire chromatography systems maker Dionex Corp. for about $2.1 billion to expand in Asia-Pacific regions such as China.
Dell Inc. announced an agreement to acquire data storage company Compellent Technologies Inc. for about $960 million, or about $27.75 per share in cash, to boost its storage presence.
Even as the risk appetite of global investors is picking up steam once again, emerging economies have gone past the U.S. in leading the investment pick-up.
Monetary tightening in China should be gradual as consumer inflation is unlikely to surpass 5 percent in 2011, an adviser to the Chinese central bank said.
Nobel-winning U.S. economist Paul Krugman has said the U.S. economy is sinking with the weight of surging household debt around its neck and that policy makers are crafting measures that do not address the longer-term ills of the economy.
UK households are struggling to pay off their debts despite low interest rates, said a survey on Monday.
US conglomerate GE said it agreed to buy Britain's oilfield-services company Wellstream Holdings Plc for 800 million pounds ($1.3 billion) to broaden its base in fast-growing emerging markets.
Jim Chanos, arguably the most well-known short-seller in the world, is setting his sights on China's troubled real estate construction-driven economy.
Stocks drifted higher, with the S&P 500 approaching a two-year high, as traders seemed pleased with a narrowing trade deficit and higher consumer confidence, ahead of an expected extension of Bush-era tax cuts by the federal government.
There are plenty of concerns surrounding U.S. Treasuries, yet a Treasury crisis doesn't seem to be happening.
Consumer sentiment in the U.S. rose more than expected during December, and an index of current conditions touched its highest level since January 2008, the Thomson Reuters/ University of Michigan Survey said.
