Carl Icahn benefits from Motorola Mobility's sale. He has other tech investments.
S&P published a report today that shows how its ratings downgrade of America?s debt is affecting bond spreads, issuance volume, and the corporate default rate.
Poland became the third most active retail investment market in Europe in the first half of 2011, with $1.73 billion transacted.
Tanzania plans to conclude negotiations with mining companies early next month to allow the government to raise royalty payments on gold exports to 4 percent from 3 percent.
Commodities saw volatile movement last week, driven by intensifying talk of U.S. double-dip recession, spreading of sovereign crisis from the European periphery to core economies, speculations of U.S. Fed's easing measures, and supportive macro-economic data.
With recession fears weighing on equity markets, resource investors would do well to steer clear of speculative Canadian mining plays and put their cash into producing miners with strong balance sheets.
As the biggest holder of U.S. debt, China has bitterly criticized the Americans? profligate ways as well as the recent debt-ceiling fiasco in Washington.
Japan's economy shrank much less than expected in the second quarter as companies made strides in restoring output after the devastating earthquake in March, but a soaring yen and slowing global growth cloud the prospects for a sustained recovery.
Independent studio Relativity Media on Sunday announced a deal with several of China's biggest entertainment companies to co-produce films with "Chinese material," as well as distribute its films in China.
This week investors should focus on the performance of European sovereign debt markets.
China should rest easy that its investments in the dollar remain safe, the newly arrived U.S. ambassador in Beijing, Gary Locke, said on Sunday, adding that the world's two biggest economies could find common ground despite economic and political strains.
Authorities in northeastern China on Sunday ordered a petrochemical plant to be shut down immediately after thousands of people demonstrated, demanding the relocation of the factory at the center of a toxic spill scare, state media said.
Estimates that Groupon Inc is worth $25 billion are very high because the largest online daily deals company is losing money, Benchmark Co analyst Fred Moran said on Friday.
After rising steadily from the market-bottom of March 2009 to April 2010, Boeing stock has basically been flat.
Gold dropped 1.5 percent on Friday, falling further from the previous session's record highs, as a rise in appetite for riskier assets prompted profit-taking from bullion's sharp safe-haven rally this week.
The retreat Friday in the price of gold marks a pause, nothing more, in the precious metal's ascent, according to a Barclays Capital report.
The Republic of Congo's non-crude revenues rose 25 percent to 500 billion CFA Francs in the first-half of the year, Congo's president Denis Sassou N'Guesso said on Friday, adding the economy needed to ease its reliance on an oil industry poised for decline.
This year's explosion in gold and related assets comes on the 25th anniversary of a hit single that offers an uncannily relevant message for the Wall Street establishment: It is "Hip to Be Square."
Since mid-May 2011, Boeing shares have plunged from just under $80 to about $57, about a 29 percent decline.
The financier Alex Meruelo is being joined by Meruelo Capital Partners in the purchase of the NBA's Atlanta Hawks.
A surge in prices to all-time highs has galvanized the French retail gold market, for long a dusty corner beloved of coin investors, drawing in ordinary punters but also the unwelcome attention of armed robbers.
As his campaign for U.S. president fails to take flight, some donors to Republican hopeful Tim Pawlenty are having second thoughts.
