IBT Staff Reporter

UnitedHealth Group Inc's first-quarter profit rose 21 percent, soaring past Wall Street estimates, as it benefited from improved performance in its employer-based plans and growth in its Medicare and Medicaid plans.

Thomson Reuters Corp launched a global, high-speed network on Tuesday for financial firms to access real-time data as well as share information with each other directly.

Target Corp is taking the Visa out of its proprietary credit card, issuing instead a Target Credit card to qualifying card applicants in a move it says should spur more sales, the discount retailer said on Tuesday.

Unsecured creditors of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc are looking to probe Ernst & Young LLC to assess if the estate may have causes of action against the auditor arising out of Lehman's use of a the controversial accounting technique, Repo 105.

State Street Corp , one of the world's largest institutional investors, reported higher quarterly earnings and said unrealized losses in its investment portfolio shrank.

Britain launched a probe into alleged fraud by Goldman Sachs four days after the United States shocked markets by accusing Wall Street's most powerful investment bank of duping clients.

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Coca-Cola Co reported lower-than-expected quarterly revenue, hurt by a decline in North American sales volume.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc reported stunningly strong quarterly earnings on Tuesday, overshadowing British financial regulators' move to follow their U.S. counterparts in pursuing civil fraud allegations against the dominant Wall Street bank.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc reported stunningly strong quarterly earnings on Tuesday, overshadowing British financial regulators' move to follow their U.S. counterparts in pursuing civil fraud allegations against the dominant Wall Street bank.

(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration should regulate the amount of salt that can be added to foods to help Americans eat less sodium, an influential federal panel said on Tuesday.

(Reuters) - Ash particles from Iceland's still-erupting volcano remain high in the atmosphere and do not pose a health risk so far to people in Europe, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.

Wall Street was set to open slightly higher on Tuesday as a wave of companies reported good earnings, but the dearth of blockbuster results threatened to cool off a recent rally.

(Reuters) - Making simple changes like getting people to take their medicines exactly as directed or to refill their prescriptions on time could save employers and their workers as much as $163 billion a year in healthcare costs, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

Australia's obesity epidemic is at crisis point, say researchers who can now measure how losing just six kilograms results in a major health gain.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc said first-quarter earnings nearly doubled, and Britain's financial regulator launched a formal probe related to civil fraud allegations against the Wall Street bank.

A December cyberattack on Google Inc computers hit the company's password system that millions of people worldwide use to access almost all of the company's Web services, The New York Times said, citing a person with direct knowledge of the investigation.

Twitter and Facebook are the bane of many bosses, but a new survey has found that employees at Microsoft Corp are the most social media-savvy in the world.

U.S. stock index futures rose on Tuesday on a wave of strong earnings reports, including Goldman Sachs and UnitedHealth, and on expectations of good results from other bellwethers including Apple.

Coca-Cola Co reported higher quarterly earnings on Tuesday, helped by cost controls and strength in emerging markets.

Britain's financial regulator started a formal enforcement investigation into Goldman Sachs on Tuesday, four days after U.S. regulators filed a fraud case against Wall Street's biggest investment bank.

The Obama administration should consider forcing lenders to make principal reductions for struggling homeowners who owe more than their home is worth, the watchdog overseeing the $700 billion bank bailout.

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Goldman Sachs Group Inc said first-quarter earnings nearly doubled, topping expectations, bolstered by fixed income trading profits.

The job market is tough out there, especially for graduates who are competing against thousands of others for the same jobs.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc said first-quarter earnings nearly doubled, topping expectations, bolstered by fixed income trading profits.

Brewing giant SABMiller beat forecasts as it reported a 2 percent rise in fourth-quarter worldwide underlying beer volumes on Tuesday as emerging markets like Latin America and Africa started to recover.

European shares rose on Tuesday, buoyed by corporate earnings optimism, while concerns over Greece's parlous fiscal situation weighed on the euro.

Good morning dear traders, I hope, you had yesterday a good start into the new trading week. The downward trend of last week continued, although EURUSD could win during the day a little bit towards 1.3473. Yesterday I had 3 trades with 42 pips.