Humana Inc forecast a profit for this year below Wall Street estimates, suggesting that investors may be overestimating how much it will earn from a burgeoning Medicare business, and its shares fell almost 6 percent.
Stock index futures fell on Monday, indicating the benchmark S&P 500 index could pull back after a five-week rally on concerns Greece will be unable to avoid a chaotic default as it tries to work out a new bailout package.
With the international Big 4 fashion weeks rolling and the New York Fashion Week just around the corner; let’s take a look at some of the messiest fashion show spills ever.
Orange juice futures fell on Friday after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that fungicide found in Brazilian exports were not a public threat and wouldn't affect supply.
New claims for unemployment benefits in the United States fell more than expected last week, pointing to further healing in the nation's battered jobs market.
Merck & Co on Thursday reported weaker-than-expected quarterly sales and predicted relatively flat 2012 results as the No. 2 drugmaker girds for cheaper generic forms of its biggest product, asthma drug Singulair.
Stock index futures pointed to slight gains at the open on Thursday after jobless claims fell more than expected, boosting optimism about the upcoming January payrolls report.
New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, a government report showed on Thursday, pointing to more healing in the nation's battered jobs market.
Amazon.com Inc's shares slid 12 percent in early trade on fears that heavy spending would hurt the retailer's profits even as revenue growth falls short of Wall Street expectations.
The Fall 2012 show packages, complete with decks of show cards picturing agencies' hottest models, have been released to the fashion world for New York fashion Week. Think of the show cards as baseball cards, only with edgier designs and more beautiful showpieces.
Amazon.com Inc shares slumped after the largest Internet retailer said it may lose money in the first quarter, a sign the company is continuing to spend heavily on expansion and new ventures.
Amazon.com Inc shares slumped after the largest Internet retailer said it may lose money in the first quarter, a sign the company is continuing to spend heavily on expansion and new ventures.
Japanese conglomerate Hitachi Ltd might post a 33 percent fall in its operating profit for the three months ended December, hurt by a strong yen and weak sales, business daily The Nikkei reported.
Exxon Mobil Corp's profit narrowly beat expectations, as rising oil prices offset falling margins for chemicals and fuel, and production fell short of some estimates, and its shares fell almost 2 percent.
German retail sales fell unexpectedly in December, suggesting Europe's debt crisis unsettled consumers during key Christmas trade, although economists said they expected the preliminary data to be revised upwards.
Honda Motor Co posted a 65 percent slide in quarterly operating profit on Tuesday and forecast the same drop for the full year, when natural disasters in Japan and Thailand hit it harder than rivals.
Japan's core consumer prices fell for the third consecutive month in the year to December, and mild deflation is expected to persist this year as energy prices stabilize and worries about Europe's debt crisis suppress wage growth and economic activity.
New single-family home sales unexpectedly fell in December for the first time in four months and the median home price dropped, dampening some of the hopes the housing sector will boost the economy this year.
Italy's borrowing costs dropped sharply as it sold the maximum amount of 5 billion euros at an auction of short-term debt on Thursday, helping drive down yields on its longer-dated bonds ahead of a crucial sale of five- and 10-year paper on Monday.
Nokia, the world's largest cellphone maker by volume, reported better-than-expected quarterly core earnings, although they still fell 73 percent as its new Windows Phones failed to compensate for diving sales of its old smartphones.
Microsoft's next-gen video game console, rumored to be called Xbox 720, will be ready to ship and be released by November 2013. The console will reportedly feature six times the processing power of its predecessor, the Xbox 360.
Gold fell on Tuesday as a lower euro, due to an impasse to restructure Greek debt, and weakness in crude oil and equities prompted investors to take profits.
