Most of the Asian markets rose Friday amid investor hopes that the stimulus measures announced this month by policymakers around the world will be able to bolster the global economic growth.
Asian shares and the euro steadied Friday as markets consolidated after recent sharp moves triggered by central banks' stimulus steps.
Pinterest, one of Silicon Valley’s youngest and most recent rising stars of social media, is recruiting Jon Jenkins as head of its engineering operations.
Uncertainty since the start of the 2008 financial crisis may have caused the U.S. unemployment rate to rise.
A Kate Middleton lookalike has gone from waiting tables – where patrons mistook her for the Duchess of Cambridge – to cashing in on her striking resemblance to the royal princess.
The New York Times has banned the submission of quotations for sources to review.
A rally that has added 30 percent to large U.S. bank stocks is over, and it's time for investors to cash in, a UBS report warns.
President Barack Obama maintains a lead of 5 percentage points over Republican Mitt Romney as he solidifies his advantage in the U.S. presidential race, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday.
The U.S. Treasury on Wednesday lifted sanctions on Myanmar President Thein Sein, and a U.N. special rapporteur praised the government's decision to release several political prisoners.
Since billionaire entrepreneur Phil Anschutz announced on Monday that he was selling his sports and entertainment business AEG, the news has sparked the interest of several media and private equity firms looking to capitalize on the deal.
The proposed project to pump bitumen-infused gas from Alberta to Asia via the Northern Gateway project has activists facing off against the energy industry.
The world's largest retailer said it would stop selling Amazon's Kindle tablets.
The news that Bank of America was speeding up the layoffs of 16,000 workers aroused fear on Wall Street.
Thursday's purchasing managers' indexes, or PMIs, reignited fears about global growth prospects, as no country can remain unscathed from the euro zone debt crisis.
Federal and local authorities are clashing over a proposal to use eminent domain to fix mortgages.
Shortly after Apple's launch of iOS 6 on Wednesday, developers are already flocking to the new operating system's organized mobile payments storage application, Passbook. With major online ticket retailers and services like StubHub, Ticketmaster, and Fandango all jumping on the Passbook bandwagon, Apple may have gained an early lead in the mobile payment marketplace even as new enterprising operations like Square and eBay try their hands at integrating credit card transactions with smartphones and mobile devices.
Vatican official Pierbattista Pizzaballa has spoken out on the string of attacks against Christian monasteries and churches in Israel.
Mexican authorities are investigating the deadly fire that erupted at a state-run Pemex natural gas facility in northern Mexico, killing at least 26 people Tuesday.
As outrage over the "Innocence of Muslims" film and controversial cartoons published in Paris rages here's a sample of opinions being expressed in regional media outlets.
The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell by 3,000 to 382,000 last week, unwinding some of the weather-related spike during the previous week
The four-week moving average for new jobless claims rose for the fifth consecutive week, to its highest level since June.
Questcor Pharmaceuticals Inc., Prana Biotechnology Ltd., Tata Motors, Norfolk Southern Corp., Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., BHP Billiton Plc, Dendreon Corp. and Facebook Inc. are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Thursday.
Asian stock markets declined Thursday as weak economic reports from Japan and China weighed on the sentiment.
The U.S. stock index futures point to a lower open Thursday as investor concerns about the faltering global economic growth were revived following Japan’s increasing trade deficit.
European markets fell Thursday as investor confidence was weighed down by the global economic concerns following the increasing trade deficit of Japan and China’s disappointing manufacturing activity.
Early in-person voting for the presidential elections will begin in Idaho and South Dakota Friday, even as the Democrats and Republicans are engaged in court battle on the issue of limiting such early voting before the actual date of the elections.
