IBT Staff Reporter

A pension fund wants shareholders to vote for a written succession plan for Apple.

U.S. suppliers of planes and aircraft parts are likely to post solid quarterly results on better air traffic as defense contractors are challenged by a tough budgetary environment.

Five deals that General Electric Co signed with Chinese partners this week will generate more than $2 billion of revenue over the next decade for the U.S. conglomerate, including about $1 billion of exports from the United States, GE said on Wednesday.

American Express Co reported quarterly earnings that narrowly missed Wall Street estimates and said it would cut 550 jobs as it handles more customer services on the Internet.

Online marketplace eBay Inc exceeded Wall Street profit estimates for its holiday fourth quarter, helped by more items sold and at higher prices, and gave a bullish 2011 outlook.

Hedge fund assets grew a record $149 billion during the last three months of 2010, according to new data released on Wednesday.

More technology and engineering workers got bonuses and pay raises last year than in 2009, but the pay hikes were tiny for professionals outside large corporations and Silicon Valley, according to a survey by Dice.com, part of online recruiter Dice Holdings Inc .

Wells Fargo & Co and U.S. Bancorp said low interest rates were squeezing lending profits, but improving credit quality helped both banks post higher fourth-quarter earnings.

A top Nintendo Co Ltd executive said reaction to a health warning on its new 3D handheld game player was overblown, portraying as routine the warning that hit its shares two weeks ago.

Swiss police arrested ex-banker Rudolf Elmer on Wednesday for giving data to Wikileaks, hours after he was found guilty of breaching strict Swiss bank secrecy laws in another case.

T-Mobile USA's new chief executive looks set to dash the hopes of Clearwire Corp investors when he meets Wall Street analysts on Thursday as he is unlikely to announce a strategic deal with the smaller wireless operator, sources close to the situation said.

The S&P 500 suffered its biggest decline in nearly two months on Wednesday as disappointing results from Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo put a damper on the rally.

Another gunfire incident has rocked Los Angeles area schools. A police officer wearing a bullet proof vest was shot but the bullet did not penetrate his body, local reports say.

200 dead cows were discovered in a field of Portage County, Wisconsin on Friday. The dead Cows were disposed using semi-trucks.

Swiss police on Wednesday arrested former banker Rudolf Elmer on fresh charges of breaching Swiss bank secrecy law for giving data to WikiLeaks, hours after he was found guilty of another secrecy offense.

Options traders appeared to be taking a bearish stance on eBay Inc ahead of its earnings report after the bell on Wednesday.

While Chinese President Hu Jintao is being entertained by U.S. President Barack Obama, and the U.S. House of Representatives votes to repeal the Obama administration’s healthcare reform law, both U.S. healthcare and Sino-American relations are the main components today of a less highly publicized event.

Lehman Brothers Holdings is demanding that Bank of America return an additional $9 million on top of $500 million it has been ordered to repay by a bankruptcy judge.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc posted a 53 percent decline in fourth-quarter profit as trading revenue tumbled, dashing hopes that the Wall Street bank had bucked a tough trading climate in debt markets.

The S&P 500 suffered its biggest decline in nearly two months on Wednesday as disappointing results from Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo put a damper on the rally.

ATLANTA, Jan 19 - A U.S. high-school librarian could face criminal charges for conducting online research while she was a juror in a capital-murder trial.

Tom Hardy will play Bane in the next big screen Batman flick.

Wells Fargo and US Bancorp said lending profits are being squeezed by low interest rates, but improving credit quality helped both banks post higher-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings.

Recent evidence a U.S. economic recovery may be gaining traction has led economists to raise their forecasts for the pace of growth in the world's largest economy, according to a Reuters poll released on Wednesday.

Wells Fargo and U.S. Bancorp said lending profits are being squeezed by low interest rates, but improving credit quality helped both banks post higher fourth-quarter earnings.

(Corrects first paragraph to show both Wells Fargo and U.S. Bancorp posted higher, not higher-than-expected, earnings)

Women who are qualified to serve in combat should be allowed to do so, according to a nonpartisan commission tasked with promoting equal opportunity in the U.S. military services.

(Corrects first paragraph to show both Wells Fargo and U.S. Bancorp posted higher, not higher-than-expected, earnings)

The two time defending champion LA Lakers, with 2nd best record in the West (31-12), will visit the Mavericks tonight at 9pm EST.