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When San Franciso-based Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC), releases quarterly results Friday morning, analysts will be examining the corporate filing for hints as to the state of the U.S. housing market.

When New York-based banking behemoth JPMorgan Chase and Co. (NYSE:JPM) reports its financial results for the latest quarter on Friday morning, the market's collective attention will be focused on just one figure: the one finally detailing how much JPMorgan lost as a result of its ill-advised strategy of putting huge hedge bets on the CDS derivatives market.

The late King Hussein of Jordan titled his autobiography ?Uneasy Lies the Head.? That could be the title Thorsten Heins, CEO of Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM), the ailing BlackBerry developer, could use for his book, too.

LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), the leading professional social networking site, lost as much as 6 percent of its value Monday on a report that Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site will start direct competition.

BlackBerry developer Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) values its intellectual property at $3.37 billion, or nearly 85 percent of the value of the entire company.

Consider BlackBerry developer Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM): is it in a ?death spiral? or a tarnished diamond that with better management can be revived for a bright future?

Three of the world's biggest financial institutions in the U.S. are closing their European money market funds to new investments after the European Central Bank (ECB) reduced its benchmark rate to a record low of 0.75 percent and slashed deposit rates to zero on Thursday, undermining global investor confidence.

Despite no announcements ahead of its Tuesday annual meeting, BlackBerry developer Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) is worth another $130 million by midday Friday.

Earnings season for the second quarter is almost here, with America's biggest aluminum producer, Alcoa Inc., announcing its results on Monday and JPMorgan Chase & Co. disclosing a portion of its total derivatives-trading losses on Friday the 13th.

Elan Corp, SXC Health Solutions, Micron Technology, Thompson Creek Metals, Alcoa, Veolia Environnement and Nokia and Logitech International are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Thursday.

Former Barclays boss Bob Diamond testified Wednesday before the British Parliament's Treasury Select Committee denying that anyone in the British government instructed the bank to manipulate the rate that determines the cost of trillions of dollars worth of loans and derivatives traded worldwide every day.

Following the revelation last week that British banking giant Barclays was engaging in massive fraud meant to distort the Libor, the interest rate underpinning hundreds of trillions of dollars in credit transactions, politicians and regulators the world over are taking a sober look at the system. What they find may prove to be shocking.

Manhattan community leaders began pressing Sunday for the cage around the iconic Charging Bull statue in the middle of New York's financial district to be removed.

Shares of BlackBerry developer Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) fell nearly 20 percent after announcing a first-quarter loss of $518 million and a further delay in shipping the next-generation BlackBerry 10.

Investors in Barclays PLC (NYSE: BCS) (London: BARC) lost over £4 billion Thursday as the British bank lost one-sixth of its market capitalization a day after international regulators announced the bank would have to pay hundreds of millions as a fine for an audacious price-fixing fraud some of its traders were found to have engaged in.

LiveDeal, Orexigen Therapeutics, Lincare Holdings, Synta Pharmaceuticals, Barclays, JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Thursday.

Several underwriters that shared $176 million in fees from the $16 billion initial public offering of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, told investors to buy the share Wednesday.

It's not turning out to be a good week for Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS). Over the past few days, the bank has been embroiled in two international scandals and cut by analysts at Goldman Sachs. That follows a month that saw a major credit downgrade, participation in the fumbled IPO of Facebook Inc. and behind-the-scenes grumbling by the FDIC. The bank has lost more than one-third of its market capitalization since late March.

Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL), the largest company on earth by stock-market value, again took the top spot in Barron's annual survey of corporate respect.

Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site saw its shares rise 4 percent Tuesday many of the 33 underwriters of its $16 billion initial public offering on May 17 will be free to publish stock recommendations.

Zynga, Syngenta, JPMorgan Chase, Banco Santander, James River Coal, Nokia Corp, Morgan Stanley and AIXTRON are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Tuesday.

Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), the No. 3 PC maker, seeking to battle Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the No. 1 database developer, has bid as much as $2.34 billion for Quest Software (Nasdaq: QFST).

In the 1950s, a consumer who wanted to buy eyeglasses borrowed $40 from the bank. Fast-forward to 2012: how about using your digital wallet to buy those glasses with your mobile phone? Maybe later this year.

Moody's Investors Service downgraded 15 global financial institutions Thursday, including five of the largest U.S. banks, nine major European banks and the Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE: RY), a move that could tighten borrowing and require the companies to post billions of additional collateral.

Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), the No. 3 PC maker, seeking to battle Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the No. 1 database developer, may have been stymied in its efforts to acquire Quest Software (Nasdaq: QFST).

China's attempt to manage inflation in the real estate market is putting pressure on local governments and pushing homebuyers overseas.

The dissolution of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest U.S. mortgage guarantors, would have only a minimal impact on home ownership level, according to a new report that downplays the link between low interest rates and increased ownership.

Are U.S. technology companies fast-growing enterprises or are they banks? In a time when banks are enduring federal ?stress tests? of their ability to withstand a crisis, the tech sector seems to be rolling in money.

BlackBerry developer Research in Motion made payments of $12 million to its founding co-CEOs after they quit earlier this year, the company told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.