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Electronic Arts Inc's second-quarter results beat Wall Street estimates and the video game maker raised its earnings forecast because of the upcoming holiday title Star Wars: The Old Republic, which it expects to be a hit.

Stocks surged 3 percent on Thursday as an agreement by European leaders to help contain the region's two-year debt crisis lifted a cloud hovering over markets.

Nintendo, which popularized gaming for the masses with accessible, colorful products, reported a loss of $926 million on Thursday, by far the largest for the company.

RBC Capital Markets recently published an interesting sell signal for the U.S. dollar early next month.

All Americans will have broadband access to Internet and telephone services by the end of the decade under new rules adopted by U.S. regulators.

Justin Timberlake may be riding a new wave of movie stardom as his new film, In Time, sees its release in theaters on Friday, but the singer-dancer-actor still thinks he's an ordinary man.

Rick Perry said he might skip some debates moving forward. Is that a good idea?

Steven A. Cohen, who built one of the world's biggest and most successful hedge funds, is branching out and plans to set up his own reinsurance firm, two people familiar with the matter said.

Stocks surged 3 percent in a broad rally on Thursday as a long-awaited agreement by European leaders to boost the region's bailout fund promised to remove a major headwind for the market.

The NYPD announced today that it will pursue legal action against demonstrators who injure any of its members, reports the New York Post. This comes of the heels of the injury of protester Scott Olsen at Occupy Oakland. Russell Simmons took to both Twitter and his website GlobalGrind to call for non-violent activism.

Stocks surged 3 percent in a broad rally on Thursday as a long-awaited agreement by European leaders to boost the region's bailout fund promised to remove a major headwind for the market.

In a one of the largest schemes in MTA history, people were arrested on Thursday and brought up on federal charges in which hundreds of the Long Island Rail Road workers made false disability claims costing an estimated $1 billion.

John Edwards won't get the charges dropped in the campaign finance case against him.

Fiat-Chrysler's third-quarter trading profit was well above forecasts at 851 million euros, with U.S. automaker Chrysler contributing as much as two-thirds of it and helping offset weak European sales.

Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler said on Thursday he was sober when he fell in the shower in his Paraguay hotel room earlier this week.

Justin Timberlake may be riding a new wave of movie stardom as his new film, In Time, sees its release in theaters on Friday, but the singer-dancer-actor still thinks he's an ordinary man.

Regulators are formally investigating whether Avon broke bribery laws overseas, and the cosmetics company said it was again reassessing its strategy after quarterly profit fell far short of expectations.

U.S. stocks surged more than 2 percent on Thursday after European leaders reached a long-awaited agreement to boost the region's bailout fund and struck a deal on Greek bonds, which promised to remove a major headwind for the market.

Financial swindler Bernard Madoff said that he is happier in prison than he was on the outside because he no longer lives in fear of being arrested and knows he will die in prison, TV journalist Barbara Walters said on Thursday.

In a first, researchers used regenerative stem cells to repair fragile damaged lungs in mice previously infected by a nasty strain of H1N1 influenza. The results could lead to new therapies for asthma, chronic bronchitis and emphysema in humans.

U.S. stocks surged more than 2 percent on Thursday after European leaders reached a long-awaited agreement to boost the region's bailout fund and struck a deal on Greek bonds, which promised to remove a major headwind for the market.