U.S. stocks kicked off May with slim losses, as the energy sector followed the price of oil lower and investors couldn't sustain a morning rally that followed the death of Osama bin Laden.
Nasdaq OMX Group and IntercontinentalExchange Inc will take their $11.1 billion takeover bid for NYSE Euronext straight to the exchange operator's shareholders with a tender offer.
Nasdaq OMX Group and IntercontinentalExchange Inc took their $11.1 billion takeover bid for NYSE Euronext straight to the exchange operator's shareholders on Monday with a planned tender offer.
Commerzbank bolstered its capacity to repay government financial aid with operating profit in the first quarter that was one-fourth above expected.
Here is a selection of comments from prominent global figures on news of the death of Osama Bin Laden:
Google recently wrote off concerns about its mobile devices sending precise user location data back to its servers, but recently uncovered emails illustrate that user location is instrumental in its strategy.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was in the house bombed by NATO war planes but he and his wife escaped unhurt even as his youngest son and three grand children died.
Savitri Devi is largely an unknown (or forgotten) figure from 20th century history; but she is well worth remembering because she lived one of the strangest, most incomprehensible lives that one could imagine.
German prosecutors allege that one of the three men arrested on Friday on suspicions of planning a bomb attack received his orders from a senior al-Qaeda figure from the Afghan-Pakistan border.
ZTE Corp, China's No.2 telecommunications equipment maker, has filed a lawsuit against larger Chinese rival Huawei Technologies Co Ltd in China, it said on Friday, a day after it was sued by the latter in Europe.
Euro zone inflation rose further above the European Central Bank's target in April, increasing the chances of an interest rate rise in June, despite a weakening of economic sentiment and household demand.
The companies whose shares are gaining in pre-market trade on Friday are: SunPower, Netgear, Skyworks Solutions, MEMC Electronic Materials, Renesola, First Solar, Merck & Co, NYSE Euronext, Leggett & Platt, Suntech Power Holdings and Yingli Green Energy Holding
Nasdaq OMX and IntercontinentalExchange are poised to go hostile in their bid for NYSE Euronext after shareholders ratcheted up pressure on the Big Board parent to get a better deal.
Samsung Electronics Co, the world's top memory chip maker, reported its weakest quarterly profit in almost two years and warned of challenging business conditions.
Samsung Electronics filed its own U.S. lawsuit against Apple, accusing the iPad maker of infringing 10 patents in an escalation of the dispute over tablet and mobile technology.
The full text of the patent infringement complaint filed by Samsung against Apple.
Samsung filed a countersuit to Apple's patent claim, accusing the Cupertino, Calif.-based technology giant of infringing on 10 U.S> patents.
Canada's largest software company Open Text Corp has strong prospects for growth partly due to its solid pipeline, analysts said, and raised their price target on the stock, a day after it posted a jump in quarterly profit.
Deutsche Bank beat forecasts with a quarterly net profit at a near-record level as crisis-era expansion at its investment bank bore fruit.
The U.S. International Trade Commission is stepping into another legal battle over gadgets, this time between Nokia and Apple.
World number two truck maker Volvo AB rolled out proof of surging market demand on Wednesday and reassured investors worried about cost pressures with forecast-beating profit margins.
World number two truck maker Volvo AB posted a bigger-than-expected rise in first-quarter earnings on Wednesday and raised its forecast for truck markets in both Europe and North America.
