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Steve Jobs has resigned as Apple CEO

Stocks rallied for a second day on Wednesday as investors bought beaten-down financial shares and unloaded gold, but tech stocks could fall on Thursday after late news about Apple's Steve Jobs stepping down as CEO.

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Heavy rain from the path of Hurricane Irene will do little to alleviate severe drought conditions that have plagued the nation’s midsection throughout the spring and summer.

Burger King Corp.’s advertising agency has cooked up a new sandwich: the California Whopper.

A new app for the Apple iPad gives users access to more than 6,000 corporate white papers in the business and technology fields.

The arrival of Hurricane Irene over the Caribbean once again prompts fanatics to feed into the “global warming” hoax.

Many residents of Washington, D.C. and New York City initially thought that Tuesday’s earthquake was a tremor caused by a terrorist attack.

A new app for the Apple iPad gives users access to more than 6,000 corporate white papers in the business and technology fields.

Investors are agonizing over the prospect of another round of quantitative easing that could come from the Fed chairman Ben Bernanke’s Jackson Hole summit later this week.

Toyota's mid-size model has been the auto company’s bread and butter for decades.

U.S. shares were set to fall Wednesday, giving up some of the hefty gains of the previous session, which were based on hopes that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will announce measures to stimulate the economy

Beverage firms led Europe's top shares lower Wednesday, as mixed corporate results and cooling hopes over the prospect of further economic stimulus in the U.S. saw the recent rebound lose steam.

World stocks fell on Wednesday as European investors shuffled positions ahead of a Jackson Hole speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Japanese shares sold off following a Moody's downgrade.

The top after-market NYSE Losers on Tuesday are: Inphi Corp, Ivanhoe Mines, La-Z-Boy, DSW, Cobalt International Energy, Red Hat, Oceaneering International, PVH, Westlake Chemical and FMC Technologies.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Tuesday are: Dycom Industries, Accuride Corp, 3D Systems, Dollar General, MEMC Electronic Materials, Vonage Holdings, GMX Resources, Heckmann and Complete Production Services.

Asian shares fell Wednesday as a rally fueled by speculation that the Federal Reserve may further shore up the struggling U.S. economy swiftly petered out, while gold rebounded from its sharpest one-day slide in 18 months.

Moody's Investors Service cut its rating on Japan's government debt by one notch to AA3 on Wednesday, blaming large budget deficits and a buildup of debt since the 2009 global recession.

UBS Wealth Management Americas, the U.S. brokerage arm of UBS AG , said on Tuesday it plans no financial adviser cuts in connection with the Swiss bank's announced plans to slash 3,500 jobs.

You can’t blame investors for feeling slightly queasy about the U.S. stock market these days. One day of relatively positive data points is followed by a day with enough bad news to keep a stock investor up at night. But based on a condensed, cross-methodological analysis, in which direction is the Dow likely to head in the next six months?

A tax rebate on natural gas imports may accelerate China's purchases of liquefied natural gas, but only marginally given high prices for spot supplies and the nation's policy of using long-term contracts.

China's factory sector is likely to slow slightly for a second consecutive month in August as sluggish overseas demand saps new orders, HSBC's China Flash PMI showed on Tuesday.

China should diversify its huge foreign exchange reserves into non-financial assets to hedge against risks from a long-term decline in the U.S. dollar, Xia Bin, an academic adviser to the central bank said on Tuesday.

Duff McKagan has created a wealth management firm that caters to rock musicians.

Shares of Sino-Forest (TRE.TO: Quote) fell more than 15 percent on Tuesday after rating agency Standard & Poor's once again lowered the credit rating of the Chinese forestry company accused of fraud.

Millions of Americans are wondering if and when aftershocks will hit the East Coast.

Can an earthquake influence the ups and downs of the stock market?

Investors bullish on the oil market are getting support from the uncertainty in Libya.

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