The top after-market NASDAQ gainers Thursday were: Fuwei Films, Coinstar, Gravity Co, Warren Resources, iGATE Corp, Acorda Therapeutics, L&L Energy, iRobot Corp, FormFactor and Netflix, Inc.
Asian stock markets ended with gains for the second day Friday after North Korean's much touted long-range rocket launch failed.
Growth was 8.1 percent in the first quarter, the lowest since the same period in 2009, largely due to weak global demand and reduced investment in domestic real estate.
Risky assets rose on moderate volume and moderately bad news Thursday, as investors seemed to be placing a paradoxical bet that a slowdown in economic growth would jolt the U.S. central bank into action -- inflating the prices of stocks, commodities and other assets -- while at the same time assuming the slowdown would not be so harsh as to throw the current recovery completely off track.
Bonobos, the largest clothing brand launched on the Internet in the U.S., is stepping out from the digital realm and into Nordstrom stores nationwide.
The Fed is also well aware that employment had peaked in each of the past two springs before resuming growth late in the year.
Danish brewer Carlsberg is to sell most of a former Copenhagen brewery site to a group of investors for 2.5 billion Danish crowns.
After investigating suspicious packages at the World Financial Center, prompting officials to evacuate one of the buildings on Thursday, officials determined the parcels were harmless are allowing workers to return to their building
Police are currently investigating suspicious packages at the World Financial Center, prompting officials to evacuate one of the buildings on Thursday.
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Gold eased for a second consecutive day on Thursday, but was still set for its largest weekly gain in six weeks, thanks to the toll the re-emergence of the euro zone debt crisis has taken on investor risk appetite.
DARPA, a division of the U.S. Department of Defense, is offering a $2 million prize to anyone who can develop a humanoid robot that can complete a set of disaster challenges.
The US reclaimed the top position as the biggest investor in clean energy last year, with clean energy finance and investment witnessing a growth $48 billion, a 42 percent increase over 2010, according to a global rank list published in a report by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
China's growth rate will decrease in 2012, according to the forecast by World Bank following the deterioration in the domestic property market and decrease in export demand globally.
North Korea is poised to launch its first satellite into orbit; the U.S. says it is a missile test in disguise. And tensions in northeast Asia are high as the North, an impoverished but nuclear-armed nation, engages in saber-rattling ahead of the launch.
Equity investors are advised to remember that dividends and capital gains or losses matter; one can't embrace the fact some stocks pay high dividends while ignoring their risk to capital.
American International Group Inc., the beleagued insurance company that was brought to its knees by the subprime mortgage collapse, is re-entering U.S. real estate investment later this year.
Billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson announced on Wednesday plans to open a casino strip in Spain, pushing for a $35 billion casino complex in either Barcelona or Madrid.
The top aftermarket NYSE gainers Tuesday were: Owens-Illinois, Och-Ziff Capital Management, Guidewire Software, Alcoa, Koninklijke Philips Electronics and Generac Holdings Inc. The top aftermarket NYSE losers were: Perini Corp, Computer Sciences Corp, Leapfrog Enterprises, QR Energy, Hospitality Properites Trust and Newcastle Investment Corp.
Carlyle Group LP is eyeing a market valuation of $7.5 billion to $8 billion in an initial public offering, as the U.S. private equity firm prepares to kick off a marketing blitz to investors, perhaps as soon as next week, said a source with knowledge of the situation.
Activist hedge fund Starboard Value, dissatisfied with AOL's $1 billion deal to sell the majority of patents to Microsoft Corp , has filed with U.S. regulators for the nomination of three of its candidates to the board of the Internet firm.
Billionaire Sheldon Adelson said on Wednesday that he plans to spend $35 billion on a mini-Las Vegas strip in Spain, where he is courting the country's two top urban areas, Barcelona and Madrid, with plans for a casino complex.
