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U.S. stock index futures plunged Thursday after Speaker John Boehner failed to get his “Plan B” tax bill designed to help avert the "fiscal cliff" through the House.

Central bank actions top a list of factors expected to extend the current gold price bull market into a 12th year.

Seven months after Elliott Management bid for BMC Software (NASDAQ:BMC), it bid for Compuware Corp. (NASDAQ:CPWR). Why?

Alcatel Lucent, Knight Capital Group, Lloyds Banking, Mellanox Technologies, Syngenta, Oracle Corp, Altria Group, Citigroup, and Gulfport Energy Corp are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Wednesday.

Switzerland's UBS is set to pay the second-largest fine ever levied on a bank Wednesday when it admits that a group of its traders rigged Libor interest rates, Reuters reports.

Nokia Corp, American International Group, BHP Billiton Ltd, Bank of America Corp, JPMorgan Chase, Apple Inc, AspenBio Pharma, ING Groep and Woodward Inc. are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Tuesday.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open Tuesday ahead of the Bureau of Economic Analysis' announcement of current account balance data for the third quarter.

Nasdaq OMX dropped prominent media companies and Electronic Arts from its Nasdaq-100 Index in its annual revisions, set to go into effect Dec. 24.

The U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open Monday ahead of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Empire State Manufacturing Survey.

Foreign investment banks are finding it hard to generate enough revenues to cover the high costs of doing business in Japan.

The U.S. stock index futures signal a higher open ahead of the release of the Consumer Price Index for November.

The top after-market NASDAQ gainers Thursday were Solazyme Inc, Adobe Systems Inc, NIC Inc, Star Scientific Inc and NuVasive Inc. The top after-market NASDAQ losers Thursday were Cytori Therapeutics Inc, TranS1 Inc, NII Holdings and Lattice Semiconductor Corporation.

Multinationals are cash-rich abroad and cash-poor at home.

Startup Panorama9 raised $900,000 in new capital from investors who'd previously backed Zendesk, the IT cloud management platform.

The U.S. stock index futures point to a flat open Wednesday ahead of the Department of Labor's import price index.

The U.S. stock index futures point to a lower open ahead of the Bureau of Economic Analysis's trade deficit report.

Average salaries in developed countries are expected to have risen by no more than inflation in 2012.

Next year should be a good one for big banks such as Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and UBS.

ECB President Draghi faced a hostile reception at a monthly q-and-a session, as the media pressured him on Europe's economic woes.

HSBC Holdings Plc might pay a fine of $1.8 billion as part of a settlement with U.S. law-enforcement agencies over money-laundering lapses, according to several people familiar with the matter.

The U.S. stock index futures point to a lower open Thursday ahead of the Labor Department's weekly jobless claims data.