IBT Staff Reporter

The stocks and bonds of investment bank Goldman Sachs , which reported stunningly strong quarterly earnings on Tuesday, have steadily fallen in price since U.S. regulators charged the bank with fraud last week, leaving many investors looking for new ways to trade the bank's securities.

The European Commission unveiled revised antitrust rules on Tuesday allowing luxury brand owners to block online retailers without a bricks-and-mortar shop from distributing their products.

Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday reported better-than-expected first-quarter earnings, with strong sales growth of medical devices offsetting revenue declines for its prescription drugs and tepid growth for its array of consumer products.

U.S. stocks rose modestly on Tuesday as energy shares advanced on higher oil prices and bellwether companies reported quarterly results, although some fell short of expectations.

Following the announcement of an outbreak of dengue in the north Queensland city last week, a third Townsville resident is believed to have contracted the virus.

The ban of indoor smoking observed in clubs and pubs, is directing the problem of second-hand smoke from indoors to outdoors.

An Australian study reveals many long-term smokers struggled seven times to break the habit and quitting smoking has been compared with breaking a heroin addiction.

Fake security software was the No. 1 cybersecurity woe afflicting computer users in 2009, and Apple users lost some of their immunity to cybercrime as they stored more data online instead of on hard drives, according to the cybersecurity firm Symantec.

International markets like China and Brazil drove profits at U.S. industrial companies in the first quarter, many of which beat Wall Street estimates and raised their full-year forecasts.

Experts say young women of today are increasingly bombarded with new pressures to have sex early and sometimes, against their will, especially with the constant exposure of raunch and advanced consumerist culture of Western countries.

New study results of recent colon cancer research called 'A multilevel study of the determinants of area-level inequalities in colorectal cancer survival,' published in BMC Cancer may provide new insights on colon cancer therapy.

Almost a year into its government-funded rescue, Chrysler remains a laggard in sales against the industry and analysts increasingly question if Fiat can change the game for its struggling U.S. partner.

Daimler shares soared nearly 8 percent, leading European auto stocks higher after the company unexpectedly hiked the 2010 earnings target for its luxury Mercedes arm.

Fiat's chairman will step down to be replaced by the vice chairman, and shares hit a three-month high on Tuesday on speculation the car maker would announce a spin-off of its auto business.

Daimler's Mercedes Benz cars unit is returning to its role as the company's cash cow.

A House of Representatives committee sought more information from Toyota Motor Corp on Friday about the automaker's review of electronic throttles.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc reported blow-out quarterly earnings on Tuesday, but investors appeared to focus on the U.S. fraud case against the bank as Britain's market watchdog launched its own probe.

The high-speed mobile version of Apple Inc's iPad will hit store shelves on April 30, and international pricing for the tablet computer will be spelled out on May 10, the company said on Tuesday.

Agreeing tough new bank capital rules must be top priority in global efforts to learn from the financial crisis, finance ministers from the G20 group of countries will be told later this week, sources said on Tuesday.

UnitedHealth Group Inc's first-quarter profit rose 21 percent, soaring past Wall Street estimates, as it benefited from improved performance in its employer-based plans and growth in its Medicare and Medicaid plans.

Thomson Reuters Corp launched a global, high-speed network on Tuesday for financial firms to access real-time data as well as share information with each other directly.

Target Corp is taking the Visa out of its proprietary credit card, issuing instead a Target Credit card to qualifying card applicants in a move it says should spur more sales, the discount retailer said on Tuesday.

Unsecured creditors of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc are looking to probe Ernst & Young LLC to assess if the estate may have causes of action against the auditor arising out of Lehman's use of a the controversial accounting technique, Repo 105.

State Street Corp , one of the world's largest institutional investors, reported higher quarterly earnings and said unrealized losses in its investment portfolio shrank.

Britain launched a probe into alleged fraud by Goldman Sachs four days after the United States shocked markets by accusing Wall Street's most powerful investment bank of duping clients.

Corrects to say Liberal Democrats are UK's third-largest party in paragraph 6, not the main opposition party

Coca-Cola Co reported lower-than-expected quarterly revenue, hurt by a decline in North American sales volume.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc reported stunningly strong quarterly earnings on Tuesday, overshadowing British financial regulators' move to follow their U.S. counterparts in pursuing civil fraud allegations against the dominant Wall Street bank.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc reported stunningly strong quarterly earnings on Tuesday, overshadowing British financial regulators' move to follow their U.S. counterparts in pursuing civil fraud allegations against the dominant Wall Street bank.