IBT Staff Reporter

ThinkEquity has outlined its top healthcare stock picks for 2011. The stocks include: BioScrip, Express Scripts, MedAssets, Omnicell and SXC Health Solutions.

Shell disappointed investors on Thursday with below-forecast fourth-quarter profit, with concerns over its refining business overshadowing a sharp rise driven by higher oil prices.

Deutsche Bank said it remained confident it would meet 2011 targets after packing a raft of restructuring charges into fourth-quarter earnings.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc reported a near five-fold rise in net profits on Thursday, driven by higher oil prices but still fell short of market expectations.

The European Central Bank is expected to send a strong signal on Thursday that it is ready to tackle building euro zone inflation pressures but refrain from indicating interest rate increases are imminent.

Jack and Meg White of 'The White Stripes' announced on Wednesday that the journey of the band has officially ended and will make no further new recordings or perform live.

Despite having recorded a two-fold jump in the second quarter earnings from a year ago, News Corp. seems to be in no mood to carry on the load of MySpace and is set to sell the social networking site.

AT&T is set to unveil a new mobile hotspot application that lets smartphone customers tether multiple devices via Wi-Fi connection. The feature will first be available on February 13 to select smartphone customers, starting with the launch of HTC Inspire 4G, the company said.

Cost-cutting is keeping Sony Corp's profits on track for its full-year target but investors say more inspiration and a hit product is needed to restore growth to a company once a symbol of Japan's high-tech might.

Strong demand in India and improving conditions in Europe helped Vodafone , the world's largest mobile operator by revenue, to post higher third-quarter service revenues and nudge up its profit forecast for the year.

Deutsche Bank said it remained confident it would meet 2011 targets after packing a raft of restructuring charges into fourth-quarter earnings.

Stock index futures pointed to a quiet open for Wall Street on Thursday, with futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones up 0.1 percent, and Nasdaq futures down 0.1 percent at 4:34 a.m. ET.

World stocks fell and oil surged above $103 a barrel on Thursday as violence in Egypt escalated, adding to concerns about inflationary pressures which could threaten the global economic recovery.

Strong demand in India and improving conditions in Europe helped Vodafone , the world's largest mobile operator by revenue, to nudge its outlook higher and post third-quarter service revenues at the upper end of forecasts.

Deutsche Bank said it remained confident it would meet 2011 targets after packing a raft of restructuring charges into fourth-quarter earnings.

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Sony Corp's operating profit fell 5.9 percent in October-December, hurt by a stronger yen and tough price competition in the market for flat TVs, although it beat analysts' expectations.

British telecommunications company BT Group plc reported its highest share of DSL broadband net additions for eight years and said pretax profit for the third quarter more than doubled from last year.

Japan's Sony Corp <6758.T> is expected to post a 15 percent fall in profit for October-December on Thursday, hurt by a stronger yen and tough price competition in the market for flat TVs.

Japan's Sony Corp <6758.T> posted a 5.9 percent fall in October-December operating profit on Thursday as a price war hit its television unit and a stronger yen weighed, but it beat analysts' expectations.

Canadian schools and colleges will soon stop worrying about adding books to its libraries, as they will have access to thousands of eBooks from Random House of Canada through a partnership with OverDrive.

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Japan's Sharp Corp posted a near tripling in nine-month operating profit on a jump in television sales ahead of the reduction of government subsidies in its home market, and kept its annual outlook unchanged.

Japan's Sony Corp posted a 5.9 percent fall in October-December operating profit on Thursday as a price war hit its television unit and a stronger yen weighed, but it beat analysts' expectations.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested former telecoms minister Andimuthu Raja over a massive graft scam, officials said, a huge blow for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and efforts to pass bills in the parliamentary budget session.

Oil prices surged past $103 on Thursday as pro-democracy protests in Egypt turned violent, while commodities markets raced even higher, adding to worries of mounting inflationary pressures could threaten the global economic recovery.

Business activity in India's services sector grew at a faster clip in January than in the previous month, boosted by new orders and expectations of solid growth, but costs also soared, a survey showed on Thursday.

Japan's Sony Corp posted a 5.9 percent fall in third-quarter profit on Thursday as a price war hit its TV unit and a stronger yen weighed, and lowered its revenue forecast on slower-than-expected TV sales.

Japan's Sony Corp posted a 5.9 percent fall in third-quarter profit on Thursday as a price war hit its TV unit and a stronger yen weighed, and lowered its revenue forecast on slower-than-expected TV sales.