IBT Staff Reporter

Women taking multivitamins may not necessarily live longer than those who get their nutrients from food alone, according to a U.S. study that found the group appears to have slightly higher death rates.

Slovakia's parliament on Tuesday brought down the government by rejecting a plan to expand the euro zone's EFSF rescue fund, crucial to containing a spreading debt crisis.

With Apple releasing the iMessage application for its iPhone Wednesday, analysts have mixed opinions about what that will mean for text messaging.

U.S. stocks took a breather on Tuesday after the best five days for the S&P 500 in more than two years as investors look to earnings for a reason to extend the market's rebound.

The thousands of protesters camped out in New York's financial district may not see it this way, but these are not the best of times for Wall Street.

Alcoa Inc , the largest U.S. aluminum producer, said third-quarter profit jumped from a year ago, but earnings and revenue slipped from the second quarter as economic growth slowed from the first half of this year.

Business-software company Box has won $81 million in funding to expand its business, illustrating investors' continued appreciation for start-up companies that tap into the cloud.

Rosie O'Donnell debuted her new venture The Rosie Show full of games and a special celeb interview with British actor Russell Brand, which all premiered Monday night on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

Consumers are less anonymous than they think while surfing the Web, according to a study released on Tuesday that triggered new calls for do not track rules.

U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y. endorsed Mitt Romney, saying Republicans need to abandon their purity test and nominate someone who can win against President Obama.

Two groups acting on behalf of a single nation state were behind a March attack on RSA, the maker of SecurID keys used by tens of millions of employees worldwide to access their corporate computer networks, Chief Executive Art Coviello said on Tuesday.

BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa were suffering a second day of problems on Tuesday, just hours after Research In Motion Ltd, maker of the devices, said it had fixed a huge outage.

Global hedge fund assets rose 6.7 percent to $2.16 trillion in the first half of the year as investors backed the bigger, established managers to steer them through volatile markets, data showed on Tuesday.

Regulators on Tuesday released for public comment the Volcker rule proposal that will restrict Wall Street's ability to trade for its own profit, setting off what is expected to be a fierce lobbying campaign to weaken the crackdown.

A slumping economy and questions about Google Inc's smartphone strategy are among the investor concerns that CEO Larry Page will need to address when the Internet giant reports results on Thursday.

Investors will focus on ASML's fourth-quarter orders for signs of a recovery in the global chip sector when the Dutch chip equipment maker reports third-quarter results on Wednesday.

EU, IMF and ECB inspectors gave tepid approval for a vital aid tranche to Greece on Tuesday, saying that despite some fiscal progress Athens was lagging on privatizations and structural reforms needed to exit its debt crisis.

Canadian housing starts jumped much more than expected in September, helped by a surge in the condominium sector, suggesting Canada's property boom stayed intact last month and should help the economy avert recession.

Stocks were little changed on Tuesday, with major indexes seesawing between gains and losses before a key vote by Slovakia on expanding the euro zone rescue fund.

The New York Stock Exchange website was inaccessible for 30 minutes on Monday, according to an Internet monitoring company, but the exchange said there was no interruption of service.

Broadband technology and software provider ARRIS Group Inc said it is to buy BigBand Networks, a video networking service provider, for $2.24 per share in cash -- a premium of 76 percent -- to strengthen its networked video technology capabilities.

Liverpool could welcome their skipper Steven Gerrard back to the starting line-up when they host bitter-rivals Manchester United at Anfield on Saturday.

An activist Research In Motion investor says holders of at least 8 percent of the BlackBerry maker's stock back its call for a sale or a corporate shake-up at the struggling Canadian company.

Wall Street stocks rose on Tuesday as traders took positions in beaten-down shares ahead of the start of the earnings season.

Chicago O’Hare, Cleveland Hopkins, and Los Angeles International named most dangerous U.S. airports.

Three years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers touched off a tidal wave of bankruptcy filings, corporate failures may be about to pick up again, with some big-name companies among those struggling for survival.

Europe's banks will have to achieve a significantly stronger capital position under a quick-fire regulatory health check and may need to raise some 100 billion euros ($137 billion), banking and regulatory sources said on Tuesday.

Wall Street banks will have three months to convince regulators to weaken a proposed ban on their ability to trade for their own profit, after officials on Tuesday put the Volcker rule out for comment.

Wall Street stocks rose on Tuesday as traders took positions in beaten-down shares ahead of the start of the earnings season.