IBT Staff Reporter

Investors finally started to feel better about the stock market, just in time for earnings reports to roil expectations again.

Confidence among home builders is up in October, although most still rate the market as poor.

Zachary Quinto says the response to his coming out has been universally supportive, and it certainly seems that way from the comments he has received online.

Stocks rose on Tuesday, led by financials, as better-than-expected bank earnings overshadowed new worries about the crisis in Europe fueled by a warning over France's credit rating.

A Swiss parliamentary commission is edging toward accepting a government proposal that would allow the transfer of bank clients' data to the United States to settle a tax evasion dispute, Swiss news agency SDA reported.

ABC News anchor Dan Kloeffler came out as gay on air while reporting on Zachary Quinto's coming out.

Shares of IBM fell 5 percent in pre-market trading on Tuesday after Big Blue's third-quarter beat failed to stem worries about a slowdown in tech spending.

Donald Trump talked policy with Michele Bachmann on Monday night, in addition to calling for something to be done about the Occupy Wall Street protests earlier on Monday.

The Conservative government is increasingly showing impatience with federal labor laws as it seeks to prevent strikes that it says would damage the economy.

Shares of AMR Corp., the parent of American Airlines, are recovering in late morning trading after taking significant hits Monday and in premarket trading.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Tuesday the country's tax code was riddled with special preferences but it was not possible to fix the system before the end of the year.

Real Madrid face their toughest opponent in Group D when second-placed Olymipique Lyon visits the Santiago Bernabeu for their Uefa Champions League tie on Tuesday.

Producer prices rose at their fastest pace in five months in September as the cost of gasoline surged, but a small gain in core prices suggested the increased price pressure was unlikely to be sustained.

It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing were possible.

Producer prices rose more than expected in September to record their largest increase in five months as gasoline prices surged, a government report showed on Tuesday.

U.S. producer prices rose more than expected in September to record their largest increase in five months as gasoline prices surged, a government report showed on Tuesday.

Grover Norquist, whose anti-tax pledge is extremely influential in Washington, called Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan dangerous because it creates three tax streams that could be increased.

The United States is set to pass narrowly on Tuesday its toughest measures yet to curtail speculation in commodity markets, likely shifting the focus of a fierce four-year debate from the regulators to the courts.

Volatile markets and souring mortgages slashed earnings by nearly a third at Bank of America's wealth management businesses during the third quarter.

Wall Street stocks fell on Tuesday after a Moody's warning about France's credit rating added to worries about Europe and mixed earnings from some big corporations.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc lost $428 million during the third quarter, its second ever quarterly loss as a public company, hurt by sharp declines in the value of investment securities and customer trading assets.

Producer prices rose more than expected in September to record their largest increase in five months as gasoline prices surged, a government report showed on Tuesday.

GOP presidential candidates are getting ready for yet another debate, this one to be held at in Las Vegas

Michigan State defensive end William Gholston made two controversial plays on Saturday vs. Michigan, and the school is reviewing the situation.

Wall Street stocks fell on Tuesday after a Moody's warning about France's credit rating added to worries about Europe and mixed earnings from some big corporations.

With Siri on the loose, Android users may want to find voice command software of their own.

Johnson & Johnson's third quarter net earnings slide 6.3 percent from the prior-year period to $3.2 billion even as sales rose 6.8 percent to total $16 billion.

Greek ships were harbored and garbage rotted in the streets of Athens on Tuesday as angry workers built momentum for the mother of all strikes expected to bring the country to a halt in protest against a new package of tax hikes and wage cuts.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc lost $428 million in the third quarter, only its second quarterly loss as a public company, as its investment portfolio tanked and trading revenue fell.