U.S. stocks gave up modest gains to turn lower in the final minutes of Monday's trading session, as financials and materials sectors joined consumer and tech stocks in the red.
U.S. stocks advanced in early trade on Monday, following better-than-expected economic reports on Personal spending and pending home sales in February.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Monday are: NYSE Euronext, Salesforce.Com, Freeport-McMoRan, Netflix, Bristol Myers Squibb, Caterpillar, Boeing, Marriott International, Peabody Energy and Wal-Mart Stores.
U.S. stocks gained for the third consecutive day on Friday as investors shook off global fears and focused instead on upbeat earnings.
A Manhattan federal judge on Friday named three pension funds as co-lead plaintiffs in an investor lawsuit against Goldman Sachs Group Inc to recover losses tied to the Wall Street's bank's alleged misleading statements about Abacus, a product linked to subprime mortgages.
Goldman Sachs and others said they did not urge the Tokyo Stock Exchange to halt trading because of Japan's earthquake and subsequent nuclear crisis, despite a comment from the bourse's chief that some foreign banks had pressed for a halt.
U.S. stocks extended their losses on Wednesday after official data showed that sales of single-family houses in the US fell unexpectedly in February.
U.S. stocks declined in early trade on Wednesday as renewed concerns over the euro zone’s sovereign debt crisis and higher than expected rebuilding costs in Japan weighed on the sentiment.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Wednesday are: Jabil Circuit, Pultegroup, Cintas, Bristol Myers Squibb, Textron, Netflix, Bank of America and Adobe Systems.
Japan's government has said that the cost of March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear radiation woes, which have devastated the country, could reach $309 billion.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc chief Lloyd Blankfein will be called to testify at Raj Rajaratnam's insider trading trial as soon as this week, but prosecutors want to prevent him being questioned about any legal issues facing the bank, according to trial documents.
U.S. stocks pulled back in a sleepy session Tuesday as investors paused after a three day rally that helped the market regain ground after several weeks dominated by unrest in the Middle East and Japan's earthquake.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Tuesday are: Bristol Myers Squibb, Netflix, Aflac, Verizon Communications, Nordstrom, Akamai Technologies, Wynn Resorts, Frontier Communications, Walgreen and Suntrust Banks.
Citigroup announced a 1-for-10 reverse stock split of its common stock and plans to reinstate a quarterly dividend of $0.01 per common share in the second quarter of 2011.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Monday are: Tiffany & Co, Hartford Financial, Coach, Joy Global, EMC Corp, General Electric, Nvidia, Sprint Nextel, American Tower and CF Industries Holdings.
Adobe Flash may struggle to gain adoption on the Post-PC devices including smartphones and tablets as behavioral shift of consumers to apps from web browsing may make Flash less relevant on these devices, according to Global Equities Research.
A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc computer programer was sentenced to eight years in prison on Friday for stealing secret code used in the Wall Street bank's valuable high-frequency trading system.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc will buy back $5 billion of preferred stock from Warren Buffett, ending a costly deal that helped shore up confidence in the bank at the height of the financial crisis.
A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc computer programer was sentenced to eight years in prison on Friday for stealing secret code used in the Wall Street bank's valuable high-frequency trading system.
Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc computer programer Sergey Aleynikov has lost his bid to reverse his December conviction for stealing the Wall Street bank's source code.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Wednesday are: Universal Display, Ascent Solar Technologies, Micron Technology, Deere & Co, Canadian Solar, Online Resources, Applied Materials, Carnival, Starbucks and Apple.
Netflix's shares soar on an analyst report as well as a study from research company NPD Group.