Retail brokerage Charles Schwab Corp scored the highest points in customer satisfaction in the US last year, overtaking Fidelity Investments for the first time, an online survey showed.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Monday are: Marriot International, PMI Group, Aspen Insurance Holdings, Sandridge Energy and United Microelectronics. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Gray Television, Masco, DCT Industrial Trust, Mack-Cali Realty and Titanium Metals.
Charles Schwab Corp's customer satisfaction topped that of rival Fidelity Investments for the first time ever in 2010, according to a new annual online brokerage study released by the American Customer Satisfaction Index on Tuesday.
We believe that the worst is now over for emerging market equities. Moreover, we believe that the resignation of Hosni Mubarak as Egypt’s President will not only
ease tensions in the region but will also restore confidence towards investing in emerging markets again
The board of Calpers, the biggest U.S. public pension fund, voted on Monday to drop real-estate stocks from its property portfolio by eliminating real estate investment trust holdings and focusing instead on private transactions.
Private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice said it would buy healthcare and physician services company Emergency Medical Services Corp for a discount price of about $3 billion.
The following is a White House Transcript of President Barack Obama's remarks on the unveiling of his proposal for the U.S. 2012 fiscal year federal budget as delivered at Parkville Middle School and Center for Technology in Baltimore, Maryland on February 14, 2011.
Gold rose above $1,360 an ounce on Monday as the dollar's retreat from highs versus the euro took some pressure off prices, with a second consecutive weekly price rise underpinning investors' confidence in the metal.
Egypt's military delivered an ultimatum on Monday to dozens of committed protesters in Tahrir Square, nerve centre of a movement that toppled Hosni Mubarak, to leave and let life return to normal or face arrest.
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Global stock exchanges have apparently entered into a new round of consolidation that promises to radically alter trading activities for millions of investors.
The Egyptian stock market, which has been closed since January 28 amidst civil unrest in the country, will not re-open until at least Sunday, February 20, state-controlled television reported.
Futures on major U.S. stock indices point to a mixed opening on Monday, after indices recorded a second straight week of gains on Friday.
Asian stocks rallied on Monday, snapping five straight sessions of losses, as talk of slower-than-expected Chinese inflation helped drive Shanghai's main share index to its best level in seven weeks.
Inflation is likely to rise further in Mauritius, central bank governor Rundheersing Bheenick said on Saturday, reinforcing speculation that the central bank may raise rates at its March meeting.
The Chinese Cabinet has announced that it will constitute a panel to look into foreign acquisitions of local companies.
Larry Ellison, an American business magnate, co-founder and chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation, has bought the 249-acre estate that once belonged to Yellowstone Club founders Tim and Edra Blixseth called Porcupine Creek in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
Liu Zhijun, China's Minister of Railways, has been placed under investigation for serious disciplinary violations, according to the state-controlled Xinhua news agency
Internet radio company Pandora Media Inc filed to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering of common stock, becoming the latest technology company to test the public markets. Pandora, which runs an online service that allows users to stream free music based on feedback from the listener, has 80 million registered users.
The United States plans to build high-speed 4G wireless services network and make it available to at least 98 percent of Americans households by 2016, President Barrack Obama said during a speech at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan.
Quebec and Quebec City are embarking on new municipal building project: a $400 million hockey arena, to be completed by 2015.
Stocks rallied after Hosni Mubarak resigned as president of Egypt and the Obama administration announced plans to dissolve Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
