The uncertain outcome of Greece's sovereign debt crisis and its implications for Europe's economy kept U.S. stock futures mixed on Friday, with indexes little changed following two days of steep gains.
U.S. employment growth was likely too weak in October to pull down the nation's lofty jobless rate, though it may have been strong enough to suggest some economic momentum is building.
Daily deals company Groupon, Inc. is expected to start trading on Nasdaq Nov.4 after it raised $700 million from its initial public offering, thereby becoming the largest IPO by an Internet company since Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) raised $1.7 billion in 2004.
Daylight Saving Time (DST) would officially end at 2 a.m. Nov.6 when clocks are turned one hour back.
Apple, which unveiled iPhone 4S on Oct. 4, is getting flying off the shelves despite its battery draining problem for which the Cupertino, California-based company would be issuing a fix in the next few days.
Stock index futures pointed to a mixed open on Wall Street, with futures for the S&P 500 flat, Dow Jones futures up 0.1 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.2 percent at 1008 GMT (6:08 a.m. EDT).
World stocks and the euro rose on Friday, boosted by expectations that Greece will avoid a referendum on a new bailout package, easing imminent concerns of a Greek default and its potential shockwaves through the euro zone.
World stocks and the euro rose on Friday, boosted by expectations that Greece will avoid a referendum on a new bailout package, easing imminent concerns of a Greek default and its potential shockwaves through the euro zone.
The biography of the late Apple founder Steve Jobs has sold 379,000 copies in the United States in its first week.
Last month, the Obama administration announced a partnership with Facebook intended to help Americans find jobs and employers find employees via social media. Experts say it could make a dent in the unemployment rate.
Telecom equipment gear maker Alcatel-Lucent scaled back its profitability goal for the year, saying operators were cutting spending on their networks in reaction to macroeconomic uncertainty, especially in Europe.
Daylight Savings Time, for most people in the U.S. and Canada, ends on Sunday at 2 a.m. Remember, at that time, to turn all clocks back to 1 a.m. local time. Airline schedulers see Daylight Saving Time as yet another headache.
World stocks rose on Friday, boosted by expectations that Greece will avoid a referendum on a new bailout package, easing imminent concerns of a Greek default and the possible shockwaves through the euro zone.
Japan's Olympus Corp said it will not announce its quarterly earnings on Nov. 8 as expected because it needs more time after appointing an external panel to look into past acquisitions, sparking a fresh plunge in the firm's shares.
Italy, under fierce pressure from financial markets and European peers, has agreed to have the IMF and the EU monitor its progress with long- delayed reforms of pensions, labor markets and privatization, senior EU sources said Friday.
Bank of New York Mellon Corp is in talks with federal prosecutors to resolve a civil lawsuit accusing the bank of overcharging clients in trading currencies, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.
The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Openwave Systems, GTX, Skullcandy, EV Energy Partners, and Arris Group. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Keynote Systems, Entropic Communications, Glu Mobile, and Skyworks Solutions.
Johnson & Johnson, the U.S. healthcare giant, Thursday denied reports that its baby shampoo products contained cancer-causing chemicals.
The top aftermarket NYSE gainers on Thursday were: Jefferies Group, Con-way, Genpact, Suntech Power Holdings, American Vanguard, Global Cash Access Holdings, CenturyLink, Chesapeake Energy and Alliant Techsystems.
A number of parents are helping their underage children to sign up on Facebook by assisting them in lying about their age, a new survey has found.
MF Global 's operations in Asia and Australia have received nearly 40 credible offers and a sale is expected to be agreed by the end of the weekend, the provisional liquidator for the brokerage's Hong Kong unit told Reuters on Friday.
Kim Kardashian who recently told Australian TV that ‘intuition’ led to her split form husband Kris Humphries is set to keep the $2 million engagement ring.
