Cyberwarfare of the kind waged against Iran last year offers advanced nations an alternative to ugly military force with its moral costs, a senior Israeli official said on Thursday.
Protests of addictive pescription drugs such as oxycontin and suboxone could affect pharamceuticals shares.
Yum Brands Inc posted a quarterly profit that topped Wall Street's estimate, boosted by sales growth in China, its largest market, though labor and food costs there surged.
Merck & Co warned investors that it could no longer vouch for its long-term profit forecast due to pressure to curb prices on its drugs and dimmed hopes for an experimental blood clot treatment.
The U.S. economic recovery still needs help from the Federal Reserve despite signs of improvement, Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Thursday.
Yum Brands Inc forecast rising 2011 labor and food costs in China and said that modestly raising prices in its top growth market would help mitigate that pressure.
Viacom's quarterly revenue dropped a wider-than-expected 5 percent on the decline of DVD sales at Paramount Pictures and shares fell 3 percent in premarket trading.
Dow Chemical Co barely blinked at rallying energy costs in the fourth quarter as it tapped fixed-cost supplies from the Middle East and boosted customer pricing by 10 percent.
Here is a collection of reaction to the latest escalation of civil unrest and violence in Egypt from around the world:
At least once a week during her young presidency, Dilma Rousseff has met with trusted advisers to try to solve an intractable problem -- China.
Egypt wants freedom from the oppressive regime of President Hosni Mubarak. But as one dictator is in the process of being ousted, Egyptians should make sure that another -- like the Muslim Brotherhood or the military -- doesn't take his place.
Newly trained female doctors in the United States make nearly $17,000 less than their male counterparts, even though women increasingly are choosing careers in higher-paying medical specialties, U.S. researchers
U.S. stocks slipped on Thursday as concerns over increasing disorder in Egypt and signs of exhaustion in the recent market rally weighed on investor sentiment.
- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange threatened to sue Britain's Guardian newspaper for allegedly giving his website's cache of classified U.S. cables to the New York Times, according to two new books.
New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits fell sharply last week while nonfarm productivity in the fourth quarter was stronger than expected, confirmation the economic recovery was strengthening.
Brisk agricultural, plastic and electronic sales helped Dow Chemical Co, post a better-than-expected fourth-quarter profit, with earnings from joint ventures in the glass and energy sectors particularly strong.
Major U.S. retailers shrugged off the snowiest January in six years to post sales that blew past analyst expectations, easing concerns that consumers were all spent out after the holidays.
U.S. stocks declined in early trade on Thursday as political crisis in Egypt overshadowed better-than-expected economic reports on weekly jobless claims, non-farm productivity and monthly factory orders.
Wall Street tumbled on Thursday as concerns over increasing disorder in Egypt and signs of exhaustion in the recent market rally weighed on investor sentiment.
Some Verizon Wireless customers complained they were unable to buy its iPhone online, but the phone company said sales were mostly running smoothly on its first day of Internet orders for the long-awaited phone.
New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits dropped more than expected last week, a government report showed on Thursday, pointing to continued gradual improvement in the labor market.
Growth in the U.S. services sector in January was the fastest in more than five years, another sign the economy started the new year on a solid footing, with measures of employment showing some strength.
