IBT Staff Reporter

Chemical maker DuPont reported a 59 percent fall in quarterly earnings, cut its full year 2009 earnings forecast due to weak demand, and said it will undertake additional cost cutting measures.

Apr 21, 2009

Merck & Co , which plans to buy rival drugmaker Schering-Plough Corp later this year, reported lower-than-expected sales and earnings that it attributed to the global economic slowdown.

Apr 21, 2009

Stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Tuesday on concerns about the state of corporate profits after Bank of New York Mellon cut its quarterly dividend and DuPont warned of weak demand ahead.

Apr 21, 2009

Futures for the Dow Jones industrial average, Nasdaq and S&P 500 share indexes are up between 0.3 and 0.5 percent, pointing to a higher start on Wall Street.

Apr 21, 2009

Tesco , the world's No.3 retailer, showed its resilience to the economic downturn, posting a 10 percent rise in underlying annual profit to 3.13 billion pounds ($4.6 billion), a record for a British retailer.

Apr 21, 2009

Tesco , the world's No.3 retailer, showed its resilience to the economic downturn, posting a 10 percent rise in underlying annual profit to 3.13 billion pounds ($4.6 billion), a record for a British retailer.

Apr 21, 2009

LG Electronics Inc posted a 25 percent fall in quarterly operating profit on Tuesday, hurt by the global recession, but results beat expectations on resilient handset margins and improvements in its flat screen TV business.

Apr 21, 2009

The U.S. Treasury's plan to purge toxic assets from banks' balance sheets is vulnerable to fraud and abuse and needs tough rules against conflict of interest, the government's bailout watchdog said on Tuesday.

Apr 21, 2009

The Obama administration will make about $500 million available to Chrysler LLC through the end of this month as it seeks to reach an alliance with Fiat, and up to $5 billion through May to help General Motors Corp restructure outside of bankruptcy, an independent oversight report on the Treasury Department's corporate rescue fund said on Tuesday.

Apr 21, 2009

Oil steadied above $45 a barrel on Tuesday, pausing after an almost 9-percent fall a day earlier as traders awaited further cues on demand from U.S. economic, corporate and oil inventory data.

Apr 20, 2009

Executives from Google Inc, AT&T Inc, Twitter and other high tech companies are visiting Iraq this week to explore how technology may help fight corruption and build a more accountable society, the U.S. State Department said on Monday.

Apr 20, 2009

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he would consider the health of the financial system and the flow of credit in deciding whether banks can repay bailout funds from the government, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

Apr 20, 2009

Chinese carmaker BYD is hopeful its exports can recover by the second half of 2009, after a decline of more than 70 percent in the first quarter due to the economic recession.

Apr 20, 2009

President Barak Obama plans to crack down on the credit card industry that has loaded consumers with huge debts and sky high interest rates.

Apr 20, 2009

Sharp and Japanese telecom company AU (KDDI) is expected to released the unnamed new solar and waterproof phone on June.

Apr 20, 2009

Toshiba's high-definition ON-AIR MAX play out server with IBM’s Media Hub Framework will be showcase in an ongoing National Association of Broadcasters’ annual convention in Las Vegas.

Apr 20, 2009

PepsiCo Inc said Monday it will buy the two largest bottlers Pepsi Bottling Group and Pepsi Americas for $6 billion, in a move to control its unit about 80 percent in North American.

Apr 20, 2009

Zions Bancorp on Monday posted a big quarterly loss because of a write-down and commercial real estate losses, prompting Moody's Investors Service to downgrade it deep into junk status and warn that the large western U.S. bank could become undercapitalized.

Apr 20, 2009

Four days of intensive hearings will begin tomorrow morning to discuss a draft of “The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009” which one participant calls the most important piece of energy legislation in the last 50 years.

Apr 20, 2009

British Mathematician and psychiatrist, Stephen Hawking, spent the night in hospital after becoming very ill at Cambridge University earlier today.

Apr 20, 2009

Texas Instruments posted a surprise quarterly profit on better-than-expected revenue as demand for its chips improved in Asia, and it gave a rosier-than-expected outlook for the current quarter.

Apr 20, 2009

Microsoft Corp. announced plans to invest about 10 billion rubles ($300 million) in Russia over the next three years, the company’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, said at a press conference on Monday.

Apr 20, 2009

Concerns continue to rise over the health of the nation’s largest banks leaving investors wary and reluctant to reach into their pockets despite the reported gains.

Apr 20, 2009

ExxonMobil and Chevron were ranked among the top 10 stocks that performed the best over the past 20 years, according to statistics from CNBC reported Monday.

Apr 20, 2009

FPL Group's chief executive officer said on Monday that the company's Florida utility's $200 million smart grid initiative will link homes and power plants and support expanding use of solar power and electric cars.

Apr 20, 2009

IBM's quarterly revenue fell by a bigger-than-expected 11 percent as the slowdown in corporate spending hurt even one of the healthiest U.S. technology companies.

Apr 20, 2009

The New York Times dominated the Pulitzer Prizes announced on Monday, winning five of the coveted awards for investigative, breaking news and international reporting, feature photography and criticism.

Apr 20, 2009

Google Inc. released two new tools on Monday that are designed to make it easier for users to find the information - or images - they're searching for.

Apr 20, 2009

Nvidia announced that the Quadro FX 4800, the company's most advanced professional graphics card, is now available to Mac Pro users, offering advanced graphics features and capabilities.

Apr 20, 2009