The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading on Friday are: Pluristem Therapeutics Inc, Mechel OAO, Zynga Inc, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Citigroup Inc, Morgan Stanley and Apartment Investment and Management Co.
China's inflation rate slowed in April from the previous month, showing signs that the price pressure is gradually diminishing to make room for monetary easing.
Shares of JPMorganChase (NYSE: JPM) plunged 8 percent Friday after disclosing it had lost at least $2 billion in credit default swap trading.
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All bookings on flights to the United States, Canada and Europe until May 15 have been put on hold.
International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM), the No. 2 computer maker, opened a new services delivery center in Costa Rica, spearheading a $300 million investment there.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and its primary iPad and iPhone supplier, Foxconn Technology Company Ltd. (Taipei: 2354), will share the costs of improving labor conditions inChinese factories, Foxconn CEO Terry Gou said.
The Global Fund, a leading financier in the struggle against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, expects to have an additional $1.6 billion to fund projects in 2012-2014, its new chief said on Wednesday, a turnaround from a funding freeze last year.
China reported Thursday a rise in trade surplus to $18.4 billion in April from $5.35 billion in March amid continued weakness in exports caused by economic crises in overseas markets.
A formerly underdeveloped part of Texas is getting rich thanks to natural gas and oil, to the point that there are more jobs than people available to fill them.
Priceline.com Inc. (Nasdaq: PCLN), the online travel agent, said first quarter revenue increased 28.2 percent to $1 billion as more customers used its airline and hotel booking services, particularly internationally.
Demonstrators are expected to swarm Bank of America Corp's annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday to voice anger over a range of issues from foreclosures to corporate taxes to financing for the coal industry.
Neither premium chicken sandwiches nor Angus burgers could tempt U.S. consumers to spend more on higher-priced items at McDonald's, as a tepid U.S. economic recovery kept restaurant spending in check.
As Italy's economy reels from the European debt crisis and politicians face allegations of corruption, comedian Beppe Grillo won a large consensus in local elections with a simple plan: Dump the euro and default on the debt.
As Mark Zuckerbeg and other top Facebook executives have hit the road in an effort to draw interest in what is estimated to be the largest intital public offering in internet history, the Co-Founder and CEO is betting that investors will Like Facebook. The Menlo Park, California-based Facebook will set its final price on the eve of May 18 -- the company's first day of trading.
ABC News and Spanish-language broadcaster Univision have announced they will be launching an English-language 24/7 news network later in the year that will be focused on the growing number of Hispanic media consumers in the United States.
Marubeni Corp., Japan's biggest grain trading company, is in exclusive talks to buy U.S. grain and energy trader Gavilon LLC for about $5.2 billion including debt, media reports said Tuesday, citing sources close to the deal.
America Movil the telecom group controlled by Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, has offered to buy a stake worth up to 3.2 billion euros ($4.2 billion) in Netherlands-based KPN NV, seeing it as a base for potential expansion in Europe.
Among the flurry of decrees Vladimir Putin issued after returning to the presidency for a historic third term were calls for faster privatization and government-sponsored boost in capital investment and closer ties with the US, based on equality, non-interference in internal affairs and respect for one another's interests.
Western markets rallied Monday to make up for jitters about French and Greek election results that sent them down earlier. The rebound was possibly due to investors looking for bargains after stocks were dumped Friday after the disappointing U.S. nonfarm payrolls report.
While Nicolas Sarkozy has finally met his Waterloo -- and not before time according to a testy French electorate -- analysts are unconvinced Hollande can persuade the rest of Europe, let alone a resolute Germany, to abandon the austerity juggernaut.
Vladimir Putin ordered Russia's government to boost investment and shake up state-run industries in a flurry of decrees issued after he returned to the presidency on Monday with a call for a new economy.
