Rajat Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs director, will do hard time for insider trading.
Economic data has continued to improve relative to estimates since mid-September of this year
Despite all of the new products launched this year, iTunes 11 and the Mac Pro were particularly neglected at Apple's media event on Tuesday.
Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) will report a third-quarter loss but investors await subscriber numbers and comment about SoftBank's acquisition bid.
A statement following a two-day meeting of the U.S. central bank led to predictably boring results. That did not stop robot stock traders from going berserk at the announcement.
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday stuck to its plan to keep stimulating the U.S. economy until the job market improves and repeated its vow to keep rates near zero until mid-2015.
The U.S. government said Wednesday Bank of America's fraud and recklessness cost taxpayers $1 billion.
With France sending drones and other Western powers pledging support, an offensive against extremists in Mali is gearing up.
The world's only one-star carrier, Air Koryo, has launched an English-language website, but good luck purchasing a flight there.
The troika that decides how and when to financially rescue Greece has apparently given it a two-year extension on fiscal reform.
While trouble at Zynga has been brewing for months, this is the second dot-com bust in recent weeks.
Facebook Inc, Power One, Gilead Sciences, SAP AG, Netflix Inc, Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Norfolk Southern Corp and Nokia Corp are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Wednesday.
Two easily overlooked charts on the state of the Spanish housing market show the situation in the country is likely to get even worse.
Mosley will forever be remembered for forming the British Union of Fascists.
Most of the employees of Kingfisher Airlines have accepted the salary proposal by the management and agreed to resume work Oct.26, claims airline’s Chief Executive Officer Sanjay Aggarwal.
The U.S. stock index futures point to a slightly higher open Wednesday ahead of the Census Bureau's new home sales data and the Federal Open Market Committee statement.
European markets opened on a positive note Tuesday, recovering cautiously from a selloff in the previous session, on the expectation of encouraging data from the manufacturing sector in the euro zone.
The top after-market Nasdaq gainers Tuesday were Facebook Inc, RF Micro Devices Inc, PLX Technology Inc, Twin Disc Inc and Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc. The top after-market Nasdaq losers were Netflix Inc, Robot Corporation, Buffalo Wild Wings and XOMA Corporation.
Most of the Asian markets declined Wednesday as sentiment deteriorated following the weak earnings reports and the downgrade on five of the Spanish regions by Moody’s.
China’s economy gave encouraging signs Wednesday morning as HSBC's flash Purchasing Managers' Index rose to 49.1 from September's final reading of 47.9.
Asian shares faltered while the yen firmed Wednesday as investors stayed risk-averse, with continued weak corporate earnings worldwide and worries about economic slowdowns.
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) reports third-quarter results Wednesday which are generally expected to be about flat with last year’s.
The emir of Qatar became the first head of state to visit Hamas-controlled Gaza on Tuesday, even though Gulf state is an ally of the West.
Canada's largest bank is buying Ally Financial, which is raising money to pay back the U.S. government for its bailout.
A surge in contracts on the events futures market InTrade that Gov. Mitt Romney will be elected president sparked concern about manipulation.
A crimson “X” was spray-painted on the door of their house in Islamabad, suggesting a death threat.
John Paulson, a billionaire hedge fund manager and lifelong New Yorker, gave $100 million to help restore Central Park.
Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N. special envoy to Syria, is keeping quiet about his developing peace plan as the Eid al-Adha cease-fire approaches.
