U.S. blue-chip stocks eked out a slim gain Monday but other market measures fell slightly as investors traded cautiously ahead of the first quarter corporate earnings season.The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 1.06 points, or 0.01%, at 12381.11. The Nasdaq Composite shed 8.91, or 0.32%, to 2771.51. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index slipped 3.71, or 0.28%, to 1324.46. The mixed activity came as investors looked ahead to the first-quarter earnings season, which kicked off unoffic...
Gold and [platinum-group metals] were irrelevant, according to one Asian dealer, as The silver market went nuts, with swift buying pushing spot silver prices to a fresh 31-year high above $42 per ounce.
U.S. stocks advanced in early trade on Monday as anticipation of solid first-quarter corporate earnings buoyed sentiment.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Monday are: Tyco International, Symantec, Cliffs Natural Resources, Apollo Group, Halliburton, Monsanto, Alcoa, Dr Pepper Snapple Group and PPL Corp.
It is important that the United States begin to live within its means and address the federal deficit. But the American Physical Society (APS) believes that as a nation we need to be smart about how we do it. Cutting spending across the board without a clear understanding of what it means for America's future jeopardizes the very future we want to secure for our children.
While Microsoft's Bing struggles to equal Google in terms of search ads, Facebook is slowly catching up in the race.
The UK government has announced more than £46 million (US$75.3 million) in funding to help put 542 new low carbon buses on roads across England by March 2012, the UK government said in a statement.
Japanese auto major Toyota Motor Corp and technology giant Microsoft Corp plan to build a global platform for TMC's next-generation telematics services using the Windows Azure platform, the carmaker said in a statement.
Warner Music Group's board is expected to review second-round bids for the company at a meeting in the coming week, a source familiar with the matter said.
Backing money with gold isn't the problem for the legion of policy-makers and economists running the official monetary system. Raising interest rates is.
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chairman Rodney Chase, ex-Corus chairman Jim Leng and former Enterprise Oil chairman Graham Hearne are expected to be asked to join the board of a new energy investment fund being set-up by Tony Hayward, the Sunday Times said.Boeing and Qatar Airways announced orders for three 777 Freighters and two 777-300ERs valued at $1.4 billion at list prices.
The carry trade is back and it’s the main theme in the forex market.
Speculators in the forex market are now short the Japanese yen as of April 5, according to the weekly COT report. Another notable swing is in the pound sterling; longs jumped to 32,414 contracts from just 743 in the prior week.
Here is a list of top ten largest U.S. companies by market capitalization.
The House votes to thwart FCC's net neutrality attempts. The legislation now goes to the Senate and White House, where it is expected to not pass.
Hitting $1472.50 for US investors today, the Gold Price also rose sharply against the British Pound - hitting its best level since New Year at £900 per ounce - but was in flat against most other major currencies. Silver Prices, in contrast, rose to new multi-decade highs across the board.
Silver is a very different market to gold. Most crucially, there's no commonly accepted benchmark value - such as a suit of men's clothes for an ounce of gold - against which to measure silver across time.
After Japan’s devastating earthquake, the repatriation of foreign financial assets hasn't happened yet – but it will, said Michael Woolfolk of BNY Mellon.
The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Conns, Expedia, Curis, Seagate Technology, and NXP Semiconductors. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Hercules Offshore, Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Sangamo Biosciences, Qiao Xing Universal Resources, and Costco Wholesale.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Friday are: Weyerhaeuser, Nabors Industries, Pier 1 Imports, Qualcomm, Helmerich & Payne, Freeport-McMoRan Copper, Netflix, Bally Technologies and Costco Wholesale Corp.
U.S. stocks ended lower on Thursday after a major aftershock in Japan triggered new fears about a nuclear crisis, but better-than-expected jobless claims data and monthly retail sales data held losses in check.
