The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Nova Measuring Instruments, China Biologic Products, MannKind, GT Solar International, and DDI. The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: SuperMedia, Human Genome Sciences, China Electric Motor, Neutral Tandem, and ArQule.
Blackstone Group's high-profile chief executive and co-founder Stephen Schwarzman is temporarily moving to Paris, a source familiar with the situation said on Saturday.
More speculative traders are bearish on U.S. 10-year Treasury futures than bullish for the first time since August, data released on Friday showed.
Spot Gold jumped over $1400 per ounce in wholesale dealing on Friday in London, holding onto an earlier drop vs. the Euro as the single currency rose sharply on news of weaker than expected US jobs growth in November.
The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Smart Technologies, Orexigen Therapeutics, Coldwater Creek, Powerwave Technologies, Rediff.com India, Ku6 Media, SPS Commerce, Aruba Networks, Huntington Bancshares, and Marvell Technology Group.
Market is widely prepared for better readigs for both the EU indicators due Friday, and as of now, 1.3283 works out to be the nearest target upside on the 4-hour chart.
Opening its doors to art connoisseurs and prominent collectors from across the world, the Miami Beach Convention Center is hosting the prestigious Art Basel Miami Beach from December 2 to December 5, 2010.
Trading activity around a number of healthcare deals is being examined by the U.S. authorities as part of investigations into suspected insider trading by certain hedge fund players, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.
Del Monte Foods, one of the country's largest producers, distributors and marketers of branded food and pet products for the U.S. retail market, has agreed to be acquired by an investor group led by private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) for $5.3 billion, including debt.
Spot Gold touched a near 3-week high for Dollar investors above $1396 per ounce in London trade on Wednesday, but slipped back from new record highs in Euros and Sterling as the US currency dipped on the forex market.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) stormed into offices of three large hedge funds in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts and seized documents in a string of raids that is being billed as a crackdown on insider trading by hedge funds, mutual funds and investment bankers.
The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Chart Industries, Corinthian Colleges, DSP Group, Macatawa Bank, MIPS Technologies, BSD Medical, NetScout Systems, Constant Contact, Stonemor Partners, and Monro Muffler Brake.
As investors continue to shovel mountains of cash into U.S. Treasuries and U.S. bonds, investors seeking yield and price outperformance are advised to look at bonds issued by the emerging markets nations.
Futures on major U.S. stock indices point to a lower opening on Tuesday as renewed concerns about European sovereign debt crisis weighed on sentiment.
Seagate' announcement that it has ended talks with private equity group over taking the company private is not exactly a surprise, an analyst with ThinkEquity said.
The U.K. government is implementing a new workplace pension scheme that will help the low-to-moderate earners and employers.
Surging demand from China, the world's second-largest gold buyer, is changing seasonal patterns in Gold Price trends for investors everywhere. At this current pace, private Chinese demand may overtake India's by 2014 (if not sooner).
While investors currently grapple with a number of very troubling geopolitical and economic issues -- namely the threat of war in Korea and the potential sovereign debt contagion in Europe, interest rate hikes by China, among others – some might take solace in the fact that December has consistently been the best-performing months for U.S. going back more than sixty years.
Now institutional investors in China can join the gold buying frenzy as well, which retail investors and the Chinese central bank are already engaged in. China approved the country's first mutual fund that bets on gold prices, as inflation fears fuel demand for the precious metal.
The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Comverge, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, S1 Corp., TFS Financial, Extreme Networks, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, West Coast Bancorp, FSI International, Daktronics, and LodgeNet Interactive.
UBS Securities downgraded rating of Israel-based Mizrahi Tefahot Bank Ltd. to 'neutral' from 'buy', while maintaining its price target of 40 Israeli shekel or $10.89.
UBS Securities upgraded rating of Spectra Energy Partners, LP (SEP) to 'neutral' from 'sell' based on valuation, while reiterating its price target of $34.
