Stocks were treading water on Monday after a week of gains as investors waited for the start of an earnings season that will show whether profits and outlooks will be strong enough to extend stocks' advance.
U.S. stocks paused on Monday after a week of gains as nervous investors braced for the start of earnings reporting, worried if profits and outlooks will be strong enough to extend the market's advance.
The chief whistleblower in the UBS AG tax secrecy probe entered prison to serve a sentence he considered unfair, hours after a Swiss court ruled the bank should not have been forced to turn over client files to government investigators.
A former director of McKinsey & Co told a court on Thursday that Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam paid him $1.75 million in exchange for tips on clients of the consulting firm, giving prosecutors potentially more ammunition in the insider-trading case.
Award-winning television producer David Gerber, who worked on a range of programs from series like 1970s hit Police Woman to 2006 TV movie Flight 93, has died at age 86, his spokesman said on Tuesday.
Mild to severe depression might be better treated with alternatives to antidepressant drugs, which do not help patients much more than an inactive placebo, researchers said Tuesday.
Vanguard Group Inc, one of the largest mutual fund companies, agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit accusing it of racial bias in hiring.
Power company Dominion Resources Inc said it will continue with the sale of its Pennsylvania natural gas unit to a subsidiary of private equity firm SteelRiver Infrastructure Fund North America for $780 million.
U.S. stocks closed out 2009 with the best performance in six years, but monthly employment figures in the first week of the new year will keep investors focused on what is likely to be 2010's reality -- the economy's struggle to recover.
Can't make it to the dropping of the ball in New York City's Times Square on New Year's Eve? Don't worry, there might be one closer to home and far more interesting to boot.
Air pollution, which tends to inflame the airways in people with asthma, might also reduce the effectiveness of the rescue inhalers they count on for quick relief of their asthma symptoms, study findings hint.
Egypt's Orascom Telecom (ORTE.CA) (ORTEq.L) said on Monday it had suspended talks on the sale of its internet subsdiary LINKdotNet until it resolves a dispute with France Telecom FTA.PA.
Tower Bancorp Inc (TOBC.O) agreed to buy First Chester County Corp (FCEC.O) for about $65 million, or $10.22 per share, in an all-stock deal to expand into southeastern Pennsylvania, the companies said.
A group of financiers is trying to put a U.S. mattress maker now under bankruptcy court protection into play by encouraging Chinese bidders to top an already arranged offer for Simmons Bedding Co. , the Wall Street Journal reported late on Saturday.
PHILADELPHIA - The boom in shale natural gas drilling has raised hopes the United States will be able to rely on the cleaner-burning fuel to meet future energy needs. But concerns about its impact on water quality could slow the industry's ability to tap this bountiful resource.
The boom in shale natural gas drilling has raised hopes the United States will be able to rely on the cleaner-burning fuel to meet future energy needs, but concerns about its impact on water quality could slow the industry's ability to tap this bountiful resource.
Autism, a brain disorder that interferes with communication and social skills, affected an estimated one in 110 American 8-year-olds in 2006, according to a federal study released Friday.
Ultra Petroleum Corp (UPL.N) said it would pay about $400 million to an unnamed private company to buy a stake in the burgeoning U.S. Marcellus Shale region, the latest oil and natural gas explorer to expand its footprint in the area.
A Pennsylvania judge finalized reality TV stars Jon and Kate Gosselin's divorce on Friday, and she gets custody of their eight children.
Los Angeles prosecutors charged a Pennsylvania man on Thursday with stalking actors Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, after police said he showed up at their daughter's school despite a court stay-away order.
Citigroup Inc's Vikram Pandit endured a brutal capital raising episode this week in an effort to win the bank's freedom from close government oversight, but the bank's CEO may have won less than he hoped.
Stocks fell on Thursday as the dollar's rebound spurred a safe-haven trade, cutting demand for riskier assets, while a soft profit outlook from economic bellwether FedEx sank transportation shares.
