The top after-market NYSE gainers Thursday were: YPF SA, Old Republic International, Tenet Healthcare, JinkoSolar Holding and Valspar Corp. The top after-market NYSE losers were: SandRidge Mississippian, AAR Corp, Regis Corp, WMS Industries and Standard Pacific Corp.
Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average rose Friday but maintained a cautious tone as investors await the Greek elections.
The major powers' central banks have prepared measures to head off disaster in the financial markets after Sunday's Greek election by providing liquidity and preventing a credit squeeze, G20 officials say.
A federal jury in New Orleans rejected Thursday claims that Kevin Costner and his business partner swindled Stephen Baldwin and a friend out of millions of dollars from a BP contract for oil cleanup devices after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill.
Designers continue to feed consumer imagination by introducing new concept designs for the iPhone 5, but the latest addition that comes in the form of a video commercial, has left Apple enthusiasts drooling.
Much to the consternation of would-be buyers, Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) MacBook Pro with Retina display is totally sold out in the city of New York, just three days after the new laptop was announced at the company's World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC) 2012.
Four years after the 2008 financial crisis began gathering steam, the government has collected another piece of the remaining billions in bailout money that it's owed.
Ponzi schemes leave their victims in financial ruin and their perpetrators, if caught, with lengthy prison terms such as the 110-year sentence given today to Ponzi schemer and former Texas billionaire Allen Stanford. What is a Ponzi scheme?
Low-cost airlines in North America continue to outdo their traditional counterparts in passenger satisfaction, though overall airline satisfaction has declined over the past two years.
It might be time to tell your computer-feeble grandma or your hippie uncle Ned to update their copies of Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Internet Explorer browser from that ancient version they downloaded way back in 1999 and never bothered to update. (Update? What's that?)
A dead cat bounce was apparently at play Thursday in the equity markets of Spain, Italy and Portugal. With no more room left to fall, stocks rose in those three countries, propped up in spite of horrendous headlines across the financial media.
Apple was expected to update nearly every computer for the 2012 WWDC, including every iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. But while fans were generally pleased by what was announced, the iMac got no love from Apple. According to MacRumors, however, new iMacs may be hitting shelves sooner rather than later.
Weeks after social issues dominated Democratic talking points in the 2012 election, President Barack Obama refocused his campaign message on his and his Republican opponents' approaches to the economy in an Ohio speech on Thursday.
So the financial crisis, Europe's inability to act in a big way to address its fiscal issues, and endless partisan bickering in Washington between Democrats and Republicans have prompted you to swear off stocks? Well, one school of thought argues, Panicking never made anyone a dime.
Allen Stanford, a one-time billionaire financier, was sentenced to 110 years in prison on Thursday, June 14. U.S. District Judge David Hitner handed out the sentence to Stanford who in 2009 became the subject of several fraud investigations.
TripAdvisor just released its 2012 TripIndex of the most affordable -- and most expensive -- popular tourist cities around the globe.
Up to 5.1 million Jeep Grand Cherokee, Jeep Cherokee and Jeep Liberty model SUVs may be subject to one of the largest recalls in history depending on the results of an engineering analysis by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
The very peak of Powell's career likely occurred in April 1968,when he delivered his infamous Rivers of Blood speech in Birmingham in which he warned that unchecked immigration of non-whites into Britain would lead to violence in the streets and social collapse.
Indian media has feasted on scandals in the mining industry in recent years.
Brent crude futures turned positive while U.S. oil extended gains on Thursday after news that OPEC had agreed to keep its collective oil output ceiling unchanged for the second half of the year at 30 million barrels per day, according to a delegate to the conference.
Fear of an impending fiscal cliff and uncertainty about November's presidential elections has led to a 0.8 percent projected dampening of marketing spending in 2012, according to a Thursday report from Pivotal Research Group.
Moody's Investor Service's downgrade of Spain's sovereign debt sent the nation's borrowing costs sky high on Thursday. But as costly as this latest downgrade is, the next one could be even more devastating.
U.S. 30-year fixed mortgage rates increased to 3.71 percent, reversing six weeks of declines after modestly positive economic data, mortgage financier Freddie Mac said Thursday.
Ahead of next year?s expansion of Internet domain names with hundreds of new suffixes, 1,930 applications have been submitted to the governing Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
As the euro zone lurches from crisis to crisis, the spotlight is set to fall on Chancellor Angela Merkel as world leaders look to Germany to take a lead.
World's richest man, Carlos Slim Helu, said lifting the age of retirement, privatizing infrastructure assets and making people over 60 work 10 to 11 hours three times a week could remedy the economic woes of struggling nations.
Time Inc., the largest magazine publisher in the U.S., has decided to embrace digital distribution. On Wednesday, Time Inc. announced that it will make all of its magazines available over the Newsstand application built by Apple, which exists on its iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices.
AOL (NYSE: AOL), the No. 7 website, said management had re-elected all its candidates to the board of directors, defeating three challengers nominated by Starboard Value Management, a hedge fund that owns 5.3 percent of the company.
U.S. foreclosure filings increased for the first time in three months by 9 percent in May, according to a Thursday report by listings site RealtyTrac.
Volkswagen AG (Frankfurt: VOW) will pay ?600 million ($750 million) more than originally expected for the remaining 50.1 percent of sports car maker Porsche, bringing the total cost of the acquisition to ?4.5 billion, up from ?3.9 billion, according to Bloomberg.
