The price of gold on the New York Mercantile Exchange fell by more than 2 percent on Thursday, ending six days of consecutive price increases so far this month.
Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, rose about 1.3 from their record low Tuesday close on indications Nasdaq may detail a deal to compensate small investors.
Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, plunged as much as 7.5 percent in Friday trading, reversing Thursday?s 5 percent gains. Overall markets fell about 2.5 percent.
Global rating agency Moody's on Monday said that the steep depreciation of rupee against a dollar will not affect India's sovereign ratings negatively. However, it added that private sector companies with huge overseas debts will be hurt by the slip in the value of the rupee.
Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, fell 3.4 percent again Friday, a week after their disastrous debut in their initial public offering.
Faced with the disastrous fallout from the initial public offering of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, other technology companies that had been waiting to go next may reconsider.
Shares of DELL (Nasdaq: DELL), the No. 3 PC maker, plunged as much as 15 percent after the company reported first-quarter results that trailed analyst estimates for both income and revenue and issued a poor forecast.
Shares in South Korea's Samsung Electronics extended their heavy slide on Thursday, on speculation that arch rival Apple Inc is looking to cut its reliance on Samsung memory chips and turn increasingly to Japanese chipmaker Elpida.
J.C. Penney Co Inc shares plunged nearly 20 percent on Wednesday, their worst decline ever, wiping away $1.43 billion in market value a day after the retailer shocked Wall Street with a much worse-than-expected drop in sales and by scrapping its dividend.
It was a rough year for NBC, with the network cancelling a whopping nine shows in 2012. NBC viewers have lost Are You There, Chelsea? Awake, Bent, Chuck, Free Agents, Harry's Law, The Playboy Club, Prime Suspect, and The Firm. While the network has dropped some fan favorites, their lineup for fall 2012 looks pretty promising.
It's that time of the year when you wait to see if your favorite show has been axed by its network. On Monday, CW viewers learned that H8R, One Tree Hill, Remodeled, Ringer and The Secret Circle were all cancelled. If your favorite show wasn't one of the ones that beat the cut, fear not, because the CW has added five killer new shows (with some familiar faces) to their Fall 2012 lineup.
Here is the video of Kate Upton falling down after leaving the Met Gala.
The vote comes amid widespread public anger over tough austerity measures and allegations of corruption, with 235 lawmakers voting against the government - four more than was needed to topple Ungureanu.
Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F), the second-largest U.S. carmaker, said Friday profit fell 20.5 percent, missing analysts' predictions, on lower European sales, plunging South American profit and a drop in Ford Credit profit.
Demand for long-lasting U.S. manufactured goods dropped by the most in three years in March and a gauge of business spending plans fell, suggesting factory activity lost momentum as the first quarter ended.
The housing market is seeing hints of stabilization even as it struggles to gain traction, data showed on Tuesday, as home prices rose for the first time in 10 months in February while sales dropped in March.
New single-family home sales dropped in March to their lowest level in four months, but the reading still beat analysts' expectations as the government said sales in prior months were higher than initially thought.
Asian shares fell and the euro was under pressure on Tuesday as political uncertainty and slumping business in Europe raised fears the euro zone could struggle to push through austerity measures and may stay in recession longer.
Flash memory chipmaker SanDisk Corp's shares fell 15 percent on Friday after the company warned that a glut in the memory chip market will hurt prices for the rest of the year.
American manufacturing output slipped in March and groundbreaking on homes fell, casting a shadow over the economic outlook.
Groundbreaking on homes fell unexpectedly in March but permits for future construction rose to their highest level in 3-1/2 years, giving a mixed message for one of the economy's weaker sectors.
U.S. home construction fell 5.8 percent in March even with the help of warmer-than-normal weather in the month, but new building permits jumped to the highest level since September 2008.
