The top after-market NYSE gainers Monday were Tronox Ltd, Two Harbors Investments, Bank of America Corp, Discover Financial Services and Quicksilver Resources Inc. The top after-market NYSE losers were Genco Shipping & Trading, M/I Homes, RAIT Financial Trust, Wabash National Corp and Headwaters Inc.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into China fell in November in comparison to the same period last year, as investors, who are concerned about the global economic condition cut down on spending.
Linsanity returned to the Garden as Jeremy Lin scored 20 points to lead Houston past New York.
Walmart has pulled the Bushmaster AR-15 after it was used in the Sandy Hook shooting
This week, the economic data releases will take a back seat as the fiscal cliff negotiations dominate the agenda.
Healthcare providers will increasingly start providing another service under Obamacare: Insurance.
Shinzo Abe, leader of the LDP, will tackle Japan’s long-running deflation, but maybe not in the robust way necessary to succeed.
Nasdaq OMX dropped prominent media companies and Electronic Arts from its Nasdaq-100 Index in its annual revisions, set to go into effect Dec. 24.
Free Shipping Day 2012 will be celebrated on Monday, with deals, discounts and free shipping offered by many e-retailers and stores.
A. O. Smith Corp, SINA Corp, American International Group, Louisiana-Pacific, Berkshire Hathaway, First Majestic Silver, Smith & Wesson Holding, Apple Inc and Deutsche Bank AG are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Monday.
The U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open Monday ahead of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Empire State Manufacturing Survey.
India’s government lowered the country’s economic growth forecast for the fiscal year 2012 indicating that it is in need of stimulus measures to boost the weakening economy.
Crude oil prices advanced and hovered below $87 a barrel during the Asian trading hours Monday as a bright economic outlook for China continued to offer support.
Asian markets were mixed Monday as investors remained cautious, as an agreement between the U.S. Congressional leaders and President Barack Obama in adopting measures to overcome the looming fiscal cliff remains elusive.
U.S. consumers make purchasing decisions every day that endorse with their money the circumstances factory workers face in other parts of the world.
Here's your handy clip-and-save earnings watchlist for this week. Walgreen, Nike, Rite Aid and General Mills are also reporting.
Asian stock markets mostly ended with gains last week as sentiment was buoyed by hope that policymakers in Japan would soon announce stimulus measures to boost the growth of the world’s third-largest economy while a private survey showed a rise in Chinese manufacturing activity in December.
Japan’s business conditions in the manufacturing sector continue to falter as the weak global economic situation is affecting its economy.
Most of the Asian markets rose in the week as investor sentiment was lifted on hopes that the policymakers in Japan would soon announce stimulus measures to boost the growth of the world’s third-largest economy.
Another month of double-digit declines in automobile registrations and ongoing losses don't tell the whole story.
Initial reports named Ryan Lanza the gunman in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., but police said the alleged shooter was his brother, 20-year-old Adam Lanza.
A massive Hamas rally in the West Bank on Thursday could signal new ties with Fatah.
Francois Hollande dismissed former Italian PM Berlusconi’s announcement last week that he may run again.
The rumor a Best Buy deal was imminent turned out to be an announcement that any deal will have to wait until February.
In a visit to the Bank of England, Queen Elizabeth II politely but firmly questioned the precise reasons why the Bank never saw the crisis coming while other regulators did little to prevent it.
Foreign investment banks are finding it hard to generate enough revenues to cover the high costs of doing business in Japan.
Apple is reportedly choosing to focus on display quality and resolution for its second-generation iPad Mini, expected to released in 2013.
Wal-Mart and Kroger have come forward as potential buyers of Hotess as the company liquidates and prepares for auction.
A new survey predicts by 2020 Chinese and Indians will together buy more of the precious rock than Americans.
U.S. consumer prices declined in November for the first time in five months, falling 0.3 percent, as gasoline price declines offset increases in other areas, the U.S. Labor Department announced Friday.