The companies that reported earnings before the markets open on Tuesday are: Verizon, Johnson & Johnson, 3M Co., EMC Corp., Corning, DuPont, Kimberly-Clark, Sherwin-Williams, Harley-Davidson and W.W. Grainger.
The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Harris & Harris Group, LM Ericsson Telephone, Savient Pharmaceuticals, and Skyworks Solutions. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Tellabs, Eagle Bulk Shipping, Rediff.com India, Randgold Resources, and DryShips.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Tuesday are: KeyCorp, Baker Hughes, Marathon Oil, Peabody Energy, Travelers Companies, Halliburton, Carnival, Tellabs and Harley-Davidson.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it expects India to grow at 8.4 percent in 2011 and fall to 8 percent, unchanged from its prior estimate as the two-speed global recovery will continue.
China's Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has sued Motorola to delay the sale of the latter's wireless infrastructure business to Nokia Siemens Networks. The lawsuit alleges that such a sale would possibly result in illegal transfer of Huawei's intellectual property.
Global economic recovery is not resulting in job creation, as the number of the unemployed people worldwide stood at a record 205 million last year, the International Labour Organization (ILO) warned on Monday.
The companies which are expected to see active trade on Tuesday are: DuPont, Verizon, Yahoo, Johnson & Johnson, 3M, W.W. Grainger, EMC and Vmware.
The companies that reported earnings after the markets close on Monday are: Texas Instruments, Amgen, VMware, CSX, American Express, STMicroelectronics, Crane, Sanmina-SCI, Jacobs Engineering, Albemarle...
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Monday are: Ethan Allen Interiors, BBVA Banco Frances, RLI Corp, Albemarle and Domino's Pizza. The top after-market NYSE losers on Monday are: Eastman Kodak, Packaging Corp, Vmware, Sanofi-Aventis and W.W. Grainger.
The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Tuesday Morning, Radvision, Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Skyworks Solutions, and China Valves Technology. The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Sify Technologies, Rediff.com India, Woodward Governor, Acacia Research, and Marshall Edwards.
Gold turned weaker on technical selling on Monday, after the metal initially rose as a lower dollar and lingering worries about an European debt crisis helped recoup some lost ground from a two-month low last week.
The yellow and white precious metals have pared most of Monday's Asian gains in North American trading but the metals see strong supports at current levels as the sharp correction in recent days have already brought them to technically justified points of entry.
South Africa's rand firmed slightly against the dollar on Monday, recovering from near 8-week lows seen at the end of last week as the greenback wobbled and metal prices rose.
The Bank of Uganda said on Monday it was intervening in the foreign exchange market by selling hard currency BOUG00, helping to push the shilling up to levels last seen nearly three weeks ago.
The Nigerian naira firmed slightly on the interbank market on Monday after three energy firms sold dollars, traders said.
The Kenyan shilling ended unchanged on Monday against the dollar but is expected to come under pressure from end-month corporate dollar demand while stocks eased as investors sold off Kenya Power and Lighting.
The Ghana cedi extended record losses against the greenback on Monday as corporate demand for the dollar remained high and inflows sluggish, traders said.
Telecom services provider Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. filed a lawsuit on Monday against Motorola and Nokia Siemens Networks for intellectual property infringement.
RadioShack Corp. (RSH) stock is plunging on news that its chairman and chief executive officer, Julian Day, will retire in May. The company also posted preliminary fourth-quarter earnings that fell below analyst’s expectations.
Search giant Google said it will award $100 million worth of equity to Eric Schmidt, who will step down as the company's chief executive in April to make way for co-founder Larry Page.
Robert W. Baird downgraded rating of OmniVision Technologies Inc. (OVTI) to 'neutral' from 'outperform' with a price target of $34, based on limited upside potential near-term.
The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Clinical Data, Genoptix, Optical Cable, NVIDIA, and ATP Oil & Gas. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: MIPS Technologies, OmniVision Technologies, Veeco Instruments, MannKind, and ASML Holding.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Monday are: Nvidia, First Solar, Sara Lee, Micron Technology, Halliburton, Radioshack, Salesforce.com and Carnival Corp.
Crude oil imports by China surged in 2010, taking the nation’s overseas oil dependence ratio to more than 55 percent, a media report said on Monday.
Futures on major U.S. indices point to modestly lower opening on Monday as investors awaited the earnings from major firms including McDonald's and Texas Instruments.
The companies which are expected to see active trade on Monday are: Texas Instruments, American Express, Amgen, McDonald's, CSX, Halliburton and Sealed Air.
The companies that are expected to report earnings for Monday before the market opens are: Bank of Hawaii, Halliburton, McDonald's, PetMed Express, Steel Dynamics, Sealed Air, Wintrust Financial, Sensata Technologies Holding, and Twin Disc.
Consumers in most countries globally look set to keep a tight grip on spending in coming months as they worry about job security and rising inflation, a survey by the Nielsen Company showed on Sunday.
Europe will continue to be the top region for inbound travel with number of arrivals expected to be about 717 million by 2020, and India will lead in South Asia region for maximum number of arrivals.
Apple announced Saturday that over 10 billion applications have been downloaded from its App Store.
