There are some stocks that can thrive in this uncertain economic environment and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is one of them
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Petry will receive the Medal of Honor -- the nation's highest military honor -- for his courageous actions in Afghanistan. Despite being wounded, Sgt. Petry threw a live grenade away from his fellow soldiers during combat, losing his right hand.
NEW YORK - Small and medium-sized companies are increasingly glum about the chances of a pickup in growth in the U.S. economy over the next year, a survey published on Tuesday showed.
Networking equipment company Cisco Systems Inc could eliminate as many as 10,000 jobs, or about 14 percent of its workforce, to revive profit growth, Bloomberg said, citing two people familiar with the matter.
The heat wave and debilitating drought affecting more than a dozen states has people asking a common question in this season of extreme weather: why? The answer is likely a weather phenomenon called La Niña.
Richard Chip Lutton Junior will leave Apple Inc. soon but said it's unclear why.
The U.S. registered its 19th driest and 26th warmest June on record, according to scientists at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.
Confidence among U.S. business owners slipped last month amid expectations of weak sales and a deterioration in business conditions over the next six months, a survey showed on Tuesday.
Two of the most talked-about smartphones right now apart from the iPhone5 are Samsung's Galaxy S2 and the Motorola Droid Bionic. Both Android devices from Samsung and Motorola are offering quite blazing performance at the hand of dual-core processing power. But, there still could be a thing or two that would make you choose one over the other.
A heat wave could be coming your way so grab your water bottles and stay hydrated, especially if you are in the Midwest or Southeast this week, as the National Weather Service issued an excessive heat warning for those states today.
Emma Watson's Bottega Veneta dress at the Harry Potter premiere in New York.
Gold prices have soared to record highs this year on concerns over the euro zone debt crisis, and the metal could be set for another leg higher if the world's biggest economy, the United States, also starts to struggle with its debt repayments.
China could begin testing its first aircraft carrier within weeks and is developing more advanced satellites Reuters reports.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. is looking for action, not words from Syria regarding its domestic reform process, and warned that further delays by the Assad regime will only intensify the resistance movement, which seeks a democratic government.
Wall Street was headed for a third day of losses on Tuesday as fears of a systemic crisis in the euro zone grew, sending index futures sharply lower.
Apple Inc's chief patent counsel will soon leave the company, at a time when the company is fighting numerous legal battles around the world, according to a source familiar with the situation.
Sprint Nextel has received subpoenas from nine states in connection with antitrust reviews of AT&T's proposed $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA, according to a Sprint letter posted on the Federal Communications Commission website.
Having escaped the Holocaust as boys, two 80-year-old Jewish doctors from the United States have returned to Vienna to swim in the European Maccabi Games and have the last laugh at the Nazis who tormented their youth.
Rajat Gupta, the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director, can proceed with a suit claiming the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission violated his rights when it filed an administrative action accusing him of passing illegal stock tips and thereby denying him a jury trial, reports say.
The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Radiant Systems, Clean Energy Fuels, Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Micromet, and Nasdaq OMX Group. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Microchip Technology, Novellus Systems, China Gerui Advanced Materials Group, KLA-Tencor, and Intersil.
Will Rupert Murdoch be able to save his Media Conglomerate from the gathering storm of corruption, hacking and political shenanigan charges
President Barack Obama and top lawmakers will meet again on Monday in search of a deal on slashing the budget deficit and raising the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling before the United States defaults.
