Former Peregrine Financial Group CEO Russell Wasendorf Sr. has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for embezzling funds from the brokerage and its customers hundreds of millions of dollars.
Following the popularity of Taco Bell’s Doritos Locos Tacos, Frito-Lay is planning to roll out Taco Bell flavored versions of the Dorito.
Anheuser-Busch InBev says it will fight the U.S. government's effort to stop it from buying Grupo Modelo.
The niece of Italy's erstwhile, and possibly future, prime minister shares at least one trait with her uncle: a penchant for spectacular gaffes on national tv.
Much less cod may be harvested in U.S. Atlantic waters after a 2011 report shows far fewer fish than previously thought.
Latin America contributed nearly 30 percent of Colgate-Palmolive's 2012 sales while North America contributed less than 20 percent.
Wal-Mart stores across the country began limiting the sale of ammunition to three boxes per customer, per day as consumer demand has outpaced supplies.
Anglo-Australian miner Tio Tinto Group says it has no plans to temporarily halt work on its giant Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia.
The head of the Syrian National Coalition, Moaz al-Khatib, wrote on his Facebook that he was "ready for direct discussions" with Assad.
The maker of Colgate toothpaste and Palmolive soaps increased its profit and revenue in the fourth quarter.
Initial jobless claims are back to levels consistent with modest job growth.
Falling revenue in the U.K., Brazil and Mexico, plus billions in delinquent Spanish mortgages, hammered Banco Santander's 2012 results.
Online Resources Corporation, JDS Uniphase Corp, Ericsson, and Nokia Corporation are among Thursday's pre-market movers.
The most important part of the quarterly earnings ritual is what companies are saying about the global economy.
Fitch Ratings compared Europe to economically stagnant Japan, which hasn't seen auto sales rise above its 1990 peak.
Japan's manufacturing activity slowed in January, but it did so at the slowest pace in four months as a weaker yen helped exports.
U.S. stock index futures pointed to a slightly lower open Thursday ahead of the Labor Department's weekly jobless claims data and the Commerce Department's personal income and spending data.
The top after-market NASDAQ gainers Wednesday were Fortinet Inc, JDS Uniphase Corp, Skyworks Solutions, Citrix Systems and Align Technology. The top after-market NASDAQ losers were Concur Technologies, Facebook, Silicon Laboratories, Aviat Networks and Anacor Pharmaceuticals.
The top after-market NYSE gainers Wednesday were ServiceNow, Las Vegas Sands Corp, Owens-Illinois, Fair Isaac Corp and MGIC Investment. The top after-market NYSE losers were Fusion-io, ResMed, Vanguard Natural Resources, Medifast and YPF SA.
Big government is not the economy’s friend this year. Taxes, regulations and more intervention will take its toll.
Recent economic data indicates that France is lagging further behind Germany and this gap will widen as the year goes on.
Toyota Motor Corp. will recall nearly 1.3 million cars globally for two separate defects, including 752,000 Corolla and Corolla Matrix vehicles in the United States to fix airbags that could be deployed inadvertently, the automaker said.
"Frankly, this is the best looking contraction in GDP you'll ever see," said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics.
Despite a nearly three-week grounding of its 787 Dreamliners due to battery concerns, Boeing expects the problem won't impact its 2013 earnings.
Chesapeake Energy Corp, Amazon.com, Ultra Petroleum, Qiagen N.V., Research In Motion, KB Home, Facebook Inc, Yahoo Inc and UBS AG are among the companies whose shares are moving in the pre-market trading Wednesday.
A strong 2013 start is expected when automakers release January sales figures Friday after the best December since the 2008-09 recession.
A 160,000 job gain in January would maintain the current job uptrend, but gains still aren't big enough to lower the high unemployment rate.
The U.S. stock index futures point to a flat open Wednesday ahead of the Bureau of Economic Analysis’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP) data and the Automatic Data Processing’s (ADP) National Employment Report.
Japan’s retail sales rose a better-than-expected 0.4 percent in December in comparison to the same period last year, but lower than the 1.3 percent growth cloaked in November.
Crude oil futures slightly declined and hovered above $97 a barrel during the Asian trading hours Wednesday as traders opted for caution ahead of U.S. Federal Reserve's policy decision and fourth quarter GDP figures from the government.
