Palash Ghosh

The assailants reportedly used a car bomb to demolish the compound wall and then forced their way in.

Verizon provides a very high annual dividend yield -- on the order of 5.6 percent.

From the first trading day after the strike was announced, Aug. 8, through the close of business on Aug. 17, Verizon shares rose 7.52 percent.

We must not lose sight that Treasury yields have been artificially lowered by the massive buying program of the Federal Reserve associated with QE2.

HPQ shares are down about 6.1 percent as of 3:15 p.m. (New York time).

Verizon reportedly wants to outsource the jobs from the Forest Hills site to places like Florida and Texas which have lower cost of living and laxer labor laws.

HPQ’s chief executive Leo Apotheker has already said he wants to grow the company’s presence in so-called “cloud computing” while shedding lower-margin businesses like PCs.

Here are five of the most important reasons that are pressuring U.S. stocks on Thursday.

Overtime flows like water at the Port Authority, and management has no clear strategy to achieve its own benchmarks and goals for curbing costs, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said.

In one case, the acts disrupted Verizon?s local FIOS service.

Assad has used tanks and ground troops to seize control of parts of Syria where anti-regime activity has been concentrated.

The majority of these replacements have no telecommunications training and someone is going to get hurt bad unless Verizon settles this.?

Last week, Verizon strikers also demonstrated in the front of the home of the company?s chairman, Ivan Seiderberg, in West Nyack, N.Y.

Hundreds of protesters jeered panel members inside the school auditorium.

?Health care costs continue to rise,? the company stated.

The company has laid out its reasons for asking concessions from its aggrieved workforce.

74 percent of Indians think corruption has increased in last three years

However, he is impressed by the latest entrant, Texas governor Rick Perry.

Television and film actor Burt Reynolds is in danger of getting evicted from his home in southeast Florida.

?We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him,? he said.

Verizon said it is sending out letters to 45,000 striking employers that if they don?t return to work by then, their health care benefits will expire on August 31.

Perry is a favorite among social conservatives, including the Tea Party

The planned layoffs would reportedly include management, pilots, cabin crew and engineers. The company has a total of 35,000 employees.

S&P also reduced Google?s 12-month price target to $500 from $700.

"These [Facebook] posts caused significant panic and revulsion in local communities as rumors of anticipated violence spread."

Since July, just after general elections in Turkey, Kurdish militants have stepped up their attacks on Turkish military forces.

The suspect?s name was not released by police.

Strikers will also lose pension benefits, life insurance and other benefits.

According to Verizon spokesman Lee Gierczynski, the company?s base of landline telephone customers declined from 45 million to about 25 million in just the past five years.