Stocks finished narrowly mixed in a quiet session as traders await President Barack Obama signing the tax-cut extension bill into law.
Dell Inc. (NYSE: DELL) pursuit of storage equipment maker Compellent Technologies (NYSE: CML) has featured some unusual characteristics and twists.
Brazil’s unemployment rate fell to a record low in November as the country is set to witness the fastest growth in more than two decades.
The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: TriQuint Semiconductor, Randgold Resources, Vodafone Group, Aixtron, Acergy, Shire, Microsoft, and Siliconware Precision Industries.
The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: InterMune, YRC Worldwide, Take-Two Interactive Software, Oracle, China Sunergy, Veeco Instruments, Research In Motion, China MediaExpress Holdings, Powerwave Technologies, and MIPS Technologies.
Given the long-term importance of 1.53 area, chances of GBP/USD consolidating there until getting an opportunity to bounce back to 1.63 zone are high.
Moody's Investor Services on Friday downgraded debt-stricken Ireland's rating by five notches, citing the country’s troubled banking sector, uncertain economic outlook and decline in the Irish government's financial strength.
The Euro rose across the board on Friday helped by its leaders' positive response to creating a facility to safeguard its nations from debt issues like Ireland's, but a rating downgrade by Moody's on the troubled country dampened the sentiment, limiting gains by the single currency.
The companies which are expected to see active trade in Friday are Oracle, Accenture, Research In Motion, MasterCard and Lincoln National.
Yahoo is planning to shut several of its web properties, including Delicious, Yahoo Buzz, MyBlogLog, AltaVista, AllTheWeb.com and Yahoo Picks, as part of its restructuring efforts to save costs and exit unprofitable ventures.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Thursday are Office Depot, Accenture, Salesforce.com and American Express. The top after market NYSE most active stocks are Citigroup, Boston Scientific, Sprint Nextel Corporation and Bank of America.
The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: SMART Modular Technologies, ValueVision Media, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, TriQuint Semiconductor, Affymetrix, Avago Technologies, Comcast, Infinera, Arch Capital Group, and VeriSign.
The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: YRC Worldwide, Take-Two Interactive Software, Oracle, Iconix Brand Group, Rightnow Technologies, Dress Barn, Activision Blizzard, Research In Motion, China MediaExpress Holdings, and OmniVision Technologies.
NZD/USD broke below the 100-day SMA and plunged to a 11-week low late Thursday in New York on concerns about the kiwi currency's weakening fundamentals while a lack of confidence in euro added to the relative strength of the greenback.
Dan Mudd, CEO of Fortress Investment Group (NYSE:FIG), said the year 2011 can see record asset sales.
Stocks rose, likely boosted by a drop in jobless claims and an optimistic forecast by FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX), ahead of post-closing earnings reports from Research In Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) and Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL).
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is concerned about the fiscal health of several Pacific Island countries.
The PIMCO Total Return Fund (NASDAQ: PTTAX), the world’s largest bond fund, will widen its investment strategy to allow portfolio manager Bill Gross the flexibility of holding up to 10 percent of the portfolio’s assets in “equity-linked” securities, such as preferred shares or convertible stock, according to an SEC filing.
While peripheral European countries are forced by the bond market to raise taxes and cut spending in 2010, they were some of the steepest tax cutter among OECD members from 2007 to 2009.
Smartphones are threatening the sales of brick-and-mortar retailers by enabling customers to easily compare their prices with online retailers, who often sell the same products for less.
Flybe Group plc, Britain’s largest domestic airline and Europe’s largest regional carrier which just went public, has a famous investor – billionaire hedge-fund manager/financier George Soros has invested 7.2-million pounds sterling into the company
U.S. stocks advanced in early trade on Thursday, following better-than-expected initial jobless claims and housing starts data.
Nokia has filed fresh patent infringement claims against Apple in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands, alleging that Apple infringed its patents in many of its products sold in these countries, including iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Applications for jobless benefits in the U.S. fell unexpectedly for the week ended Dec. 11, posting a decline for two consecutive weeks.
The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Cardica, Tower Bancorp, Apogee Enterprises, Gaming Partners International, Caribou Coffee Company, Qiagen, VeriSign, Baidu, Dendreon, and Micron Technology.
Australian dollar has been trending higher against the US dollar since early Wednesday in New York and the pair seems to be up for a fall within the trending channel, study on AUD/USD 10-minute chart shows.
The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: CyberDefender, Lattice Semiconductor, support.com, Cost Plus, Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Cogo Group, Sky-mobi, LJ International, Entropic Communications, and Novavax.
Ireland's gross domestic product recorded a marginal rise of 0.5 percent in the third quarter on a sequential basis, but the small improvement in growth will do little to alter analysts' view that the country still faces an uphill task managing its debt.
AOL Inc. announced its acquisition of New York-based content marketing platform startup Pictela to bolster its advertising offering. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Pictela is a platform for distributing videos, photos and applications across the Web in real time.
Futures on major U.S. stock indices remained-range bound on Thursday ahead of economic data, including key weekly U.S. jobs data from the government.
