The top after-market Nasdaq gainers Friday were PDL BioPharma Inc, Volcano Corporation, SodaStream International Ltd, NETAPP and ANCESTRY.COM Inc. The top after-market Nasdaq losers were James River Coal Company, Astex Pharmaceuticals Inc, Raptor Pharmaceutical Corp and Oclaro Inc.
The Reserve Bank of India is expected to ease the rates at the forthcoming policy meeting Oct. 30 amid the growing concerns about the deteriorating growth prospects of the country's economy.
The top after-market NYSE gainers Friday were LIN TV Corp, Tutor Perini Corp, Trina Solar Ltd and SuperValu Inc. The top after-market NYSE losers were Ultra Petroleum Corp, PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust, Orient-Express Hotels Ltd, Arch Coal and Genworth Financial Inc.
Asian markets gained in the week with investor sentiment turning positive as a rise in the U.S. retail sales and industrial production indicated an improvement in the growth prospects of the world’s largest economy.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) upcoming Windows 8 operating system will be “the end of Windows” and that “Windows is irrelevant" during a press conference Friday in New York City.
Women in Saudi Arabia will now be allowed to serve as officers in the mutawa, or a moral and religious police force.
Energizer said it was going forward with a “market withdrawal” due to the risk of Banana Boat sunscreens igniting on the skin.
Google and Samsung have announced a new Chromebook. And, at $249, the product, as Google advertises, is the laptop “for everyone.”
Attention all "Harry Potter" fans, Daniel Radcliffe is now single. According to media reports, Radcliffe has broken up with his longtime girlfriend Rosie Coker.
There were supposed to be 50 Starbucks in India by the end of the year. So far, there's one. Here are some reasons why.
The unemployment rate declined in September in most "swing" or battleground states for the U.S. presidential election, the U.S. DOL announced Friday.
Mayor Thomas Menino is seeking to preemptively dissuade Trojan from distributing its sex toys in front of Boston City Hall
Silvio Berlusconi faces up to 15 years in prison if he is found guilty.
Caterpillar is expected to report higher third-quarter earnings Monday, despite a challenging economic environment.
A day before the Oct. 20 deadline, Kingfisher Airlines Friday replied to a show cause notice served to it by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the aviation regulator in India.
The father of a Bangladeshi man, who arrested for plotting to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Thursday alleged that his son was a victim of a racist conspiracy, local media reported.
SanDisk Corp, Chesapeake Energy Co, Google Inc, Nokia Corp, Marvell Technology Group, Aviva Plc, Microsoft Corp, Deutsche Bank AG and Advanced Micro Devices are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Friday.
In a move aimed at boosting insourcing work from outside contractors, leading automaker General Motors (GM) plans to hire 3000 Hewlett Packard (HP) employees who previously executed information technology work for the organization.
Stock in publicly-traded Spanish banks rose sharply this week, in spite of bad news. What gives?
Asian stock markets mostly declined Friday as the disappointing quarterly earnings from the U.S. blue chips and an unexpected jump in initial jobless claims weighed on the sentiment.
U.S. stock index futures pointed to a lower open Friday as investors remained watchful with concerns that corporate earnings would be affected by the sluggish global economic growth.
European markets fell Friday as investors maintained a cautious mode waiting for the outcome of the European Council summit that concludes in Brussels later in the day.
The top after-market NYSE gainers Thursday were Meritor, Inc, Orient-Express Hotels Ltd, NCR Corp, McClatchy Co and Capital One Financial Corp. The top after-market NYSE losers were VOC Energy Trust, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Calgon Carbon Corp, Albemarle Corp and Shutterstock, Inc.
Most of the Asian stocks fell Friday with investor sentiment turning negative as the quarterly results reported by Google and Microsoft missed analysts’ expectation, deepening the fear that the sluggish global economic growth would affect the corporate earnings.
The World Trade Organization forbade China Thursday to impose duties on certain U.S. steel exports, in a case affecting Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Chevrolet has announced plans to unveil the 2014 Corvette this coming January at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The 2014 Corvette will be the first of a new generation of Corvettes, the seventh in the line’s history.
China's Wanxiang Group saw its deal with A123 collapse, but bankruptcy would clear hurdles.
Spirit Air, which runs surfeit goofy promotions, is back at it again, this time mimicking Mitt Romney's "binders full of women" comment from the debate
The exercise-science major at Adelphi University was invited to attend the second presidential debate and ask a question after answering a telemarketer call.
Macy's, Inc. (NYSE:M) has its sights set on Millennials - Americans roughly defined as those born in the 20th century's waning years.
