Honda Civic GX has been named the greenest vehicle of 2011, while Chevrolet Volt slipped to the last spot, according to Washington-based American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy.
Brokerage Jefferies & Co. said losers at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) are HTC, Motorola Mobility Holdings, Nokia, Sierra Wireless, Novatel Wireless, PC original equipment manufacturers (OEM), and Sony Ericsson.
Brokerage Jefferies & Co. said winners at MWC are Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM), Samsung, Apple Inc., and Google Inc.'s Android.
The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Cray, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Aruba Networks, SunPower, and American Public Education. The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Blue Coat Systems, Duckwall-ALCO Stores, Maxwell Technologies, Accuray, and ACI Worldwide.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Thursday are: Newpark Resources, Valmont Industries, Assured Guaranty, Yingli Green and Pilgrim's Pride. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Home Properties, El Paso, Corn Products International, Nordstrom and First Marblehead.
U.S. stocks finished at fresh multi-year high on Thursday as improved corporate earnings and manufacturing data overshadowed a bigger than expected rise in the number of people applying for unemployment benefits.
U.S. stocks finished at fresh multi-year high on Thursday as improved corporate earnings and manufacturing data overshadowed a bigger than expected rise in the number of people applying for unemployment benefits.
U.S. stocks finished at fresh multi-year high on Thursday as improved corporate earnings and manufacturing data overshadowed a bigger than expected rise in the number of people applying for unemployment benefits.
French oil major Total will reduce production of its Angolan crude grade Dalia in April for planned maintenance, trade sources said on Thursday.
Shares of NetApp Inc. (Nasdaq: NTAP) are plunging after a series of brokerage downgrades on the data storage company.
China's main share index is not likely to rise much in the first half of 2011 because of worries over monetary tightening, but many sectors are now at attractive valuations, a fund manager at JPMorgan's JF China Fund said on Thursday.
Even as precious metal investors seem to be taken in by the superior performance of silver over gold, some analysts have raised the voice of caution, saying gold will soon outperform silver.
US stocks declined in early trade on Thursday after official data showed that weekly jobless claims unexpectedly rose last week while Consumer Price Index (CPI) climbed more than forecast in January.
The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Rubicon Technology, China XD Plastics, China MediaExpress Holdings, NutriSystem, and Drugstore.com. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Anadigics, NetApp, eHealth, EnerNOC, and NVIDIA.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Thursday are: Williams Companies, Cliffs Natural Resources, J.M. Smucker, El Paso, Nordstrom, Skechers, Netapp, Nvidia and Apple.
Emerging market equities, which have surprisingly underperformed so far this year, will bounce back and the total return from emerging equities will eclipse those from developed market equities in 2011, according to an analyst.
Asian stock markets mostly ended higher on Thursday as higher growth forecast for the U.S economy from the Federal Reserve and solid earnings reports buoyed sentiment.
The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Rubicon Technology, Pinnacle Airlines, Hollysys Automation Technologies, Cray, and Inspire Pharmaceuticals. The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Itron, Columbia Laboratories, First Financial Northwest, Mattson Technology, and NetApp.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Wednesday are: Williams Companies, Ion Geophysical, Cliffs Natural Resources, Gerova Financial Group and Resolute Energy. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Skechers, Spectrum Brands Holdings, Oceaneering International, First Marblehead and K-Sea Transportation.
ASX Group Ltd (ASX.AX) eked out a small first-half profit growth, but focus was squarely on the completion of Singapore Exchange's (SGXL.SI) $7.9 billion bid for the Australian bourse operator, a move to help the bourses fight growing competition.
U.S. Stocks climbed on Wednesday, supported by some solid earnings reports and a number or M&A deal-making, as the Dow and S&P 500 reached 31-month highs.
U.S. Stocks climbed, supported by some solid earnings reports and a number or M&A deal-making, as the Dow and S&P 500 reached 31-month highs.
South Africa's rand jumped more than 1.5 percent against the dollar in late trade on Wednesday, helped by an aggressive sell-off in the U.S. currency and better-than-expected local data.
Consumer prices in Rwanda fell for the seventh straight month in January, largely on the cost of vegetables and fish, the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) said on Wednesday.
Cocoa prices at the farmgate in Ivory Coast are falling sharply and farmers are fast running out of money, with potentially damaging consequences for the cocoa mid-crop, farmers said on Wednesday.
Bernard Madoff, the man behind a brazen $65-billion Ponzi scheme, criticized bankers and big investors for “willful blindness” regarding his fraud and bashed the media for its treatment of his family.
While Wall Street is buzzing over the historic proposed merger between Germany’s Deutsche Boerse and the NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX), there is also speculation that CME Group Inc. (NYSE: CME) might also make a bid for the New York exchange.
The number of international air passengers from mainland China will rise by an average of 10.8 percent per year through to 2014, making it the world's fastest-growing market, industry association IATA forecast.
China is now the world's second largest economy, but hundreds of millions of its people still rely on fouled water that will cost billions of dollars to clean.
RBC Capital Markets said February spending plans rise sequentially as its data supports continued sales gains at restaurants.
