Chinese Internet company Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) has acquired a majority stake in Riot Games, the video game developer and publisher said on Friday.
In a study conducted by business school IMD, 18.2 percent of respondents cited Singapore Airlines as the top national brand that they were most enthusiastic about and would recommend globally.
Forensic psychiatrist Gerald Bryant details the personality traits of Bernie Madoff-like of Ponzi schemers.
U.S. stocks, led by insurer Aetna, finished the day strong amid a conflicting U.S. jobs report from the Dept. of Labor.
French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis (NYSE: SNY) might make another deal to acquire U.S. biotech firm Genzyme (Nasdaq: GENZ) before Wednesday, the day Sanofi is scheduled to release its 2010 results, sources have told Reuters.
Dow and S&P 500 are down slightly today, as investors struggled to interperet the January jobs report from the U.S. Dept. of Labor
China has offered Zimbabwe $3 billion for vast platinum reserves, a local private newspaper reported on Friday but said the deal was likely to be rejected by the government over its terms.
South Africa's rand weakened to a near six-month low against the dollar on Friday, falling through key support and dragging local bonds down with it before recouping some losses as demand for longer dated paper picked up.
The price of gold is at a critical juncture. What happens in the next couple of weeks can determine whether the metal's spectacular rally will continue or fade.
Palm oil output and stocks, already lagging robust demand due to rains in top Southeast Asia producers, could be made worse should the cooking ingredient become the next target for emerging markets seeking to buy big and dampen adverse effects of booming world food prices.
Investors from China and Libya are interested in buying agribusinesses in Ukraine to secure food supplies, a newspaper quoted top Austrian investment bankers as saying.
For Esther Moloto, the 32-year-old owner of a little house on top of the world's biggest platinum reserves, the sound of progress is falling plaster.
U.S. stocks wavered in early trade on Friday after a government report showed that U.S. added fewer jobs than forecast for January, while the unemployment rate unexpectedly declined to its lowest level since April 2009
The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: JDS Uniphase, Silicon Image, Orexigen Therapeutics, China MediaExpress Holdings and Entropic Communications. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Power-One, Coinstar, Toreador Resources, YRC Worldwide and GT Solar International.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Friday are: JDS Uniphase, Aetna, PulteGroup, Symantec, Tesoro, Las Vegas Sands, Fiserv and Wynn Resorts.
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world's leading luxury products group, recorded a 19% increase in revenue in 2010, exceeding the 20 billion Euro mark for the first time.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Thursday are: Alliant Techsystems, Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Tyson Foods, Vonage Holdings and China Yuchai International. The top after-market NYSE losers on Thursday are: DHT Holdings, Teekay Tankers, RealD, Las Vegas Sands and Netsuite.
The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: JDS Uniphase, Opnext, Aviat Networks, Silicon Image and China MediaExpress Holdings. The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Power-One, Biodel, Coinstar, pSivida and MedQuist.
Pharma major GlaxoSmithKline Plc posted a quarterly loss hit by a massive charge to settle further litigation related to its diabetes drug Avandia, but the company raised its dividend and said it would resume its share buyback program.
Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson wrote in his 2010 year end firm report that US stocks will continue to rise.
U.S. stocks, after selling-off in the early session, bounced back to finish moderately higher on some positive economic news, despite continued political unrest in Egypt.
The fundamental reason is that the tropical storm Cyclone Yasi, headed towards Queensland, Australia, did not disrupt the country's sugar production as much as initially feared. Australia is the third largest sugar exporter in the world.
South Africa's rand weakened more than 1.7 percent to near six-month lows against the greenback on Thursday, pushing through its long-term moving average as offshore hedge funds drained dollars off the market.
Retail clothing stores such as Ann Taylor are leading the way so far on strong retail report by the Institute for Supply Management
U.S. stocks declined in early trade on Thursday as political crisis in Egypt overshadowed better-than-expected economic reports on weekly jobless claims, non-farm productivity and monthly factory orders.
Mobile carriers risk an end of profit within four years amid increased smartphone usage, rising investment costs and falling revenue per unit of data, says a new study.
U.S. stocks fell modestly in early trade on Thursday despite better-than-expected weekly jobless claims data as mixed earnings and political crisis in Egypt weighed on the sentiment.
The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Hansen Medical, Shutterfly, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Netlist and Entropic Communications. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are Intersil Corp, Travelzoo, ON Semiconductor Corp, Ampal-American Israel and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Thursday are: Dow Chemical, GameStop, Yum Brands, CF Industries Holdings, Micron Technology, Merck & Co and Cvs Caremark.
National Stock Exchange, Inc. (NSX) said that assets in U.S. listed Exchange-Traded Funds and Exchange-Traded Notes touched a new record of about $1.02 trillion at the end of January 2011.
