Wall Street stocks were looked likely to open lower open on Wednesday, despite good private sector payrolls data, as investors digested minutes from the latest Federal Reserve meeting published Tuesday suggesting further monetary stimulus action is unlikely.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 04, 2012
The woman behind the Mega Millions mess has lawyered up and will hold a press conference Wednesday to discuss the $656 Mega Millions jackpot. Mirlande Wilson, a Maryland resident, claims to hold one of three winning tickets for the $656 record-breaking Mega Millions jackpot. However, Wilson got herself into a bit of a Mega Millions mess when her McDonald's co-workers claimed the winning ticket was purchased with money from an office pool but Wilson said that she refused to share the money wit...
Cavan Sieczkowski
Apr 04, 2012
Stock index futures fell on Wednesday after minutes of the Federal Reserve's March meeting released on Tuesday showed policymakers were less inclined to provide more economic stimulus, curbing investors' appetite for risky assets.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 04, 2012
Who is Goldman Sachs? Wall Street's top investment bank, or a company that treats its clients like muppets in order to make as much profit as possible? And what does that mean for the rest of us?
Raymond Ronamai
Apr 04, 2012
Kris Humphries and Kim Kardashian divorce war is still on. The basketball player has now refused to divorce the reality star Kim Kardashian until she publicly announces that the marriage was a fraud. Six months after confirming the end of their 72-day marriage the basketball player has a master plan to destroy his estranged wife.
Ankita Mehta
Apr 04, 2012
Following the footsteps of fashion giants like Karl Lagerfeld and Giambattista Valli, fashion label Calvin Klein's Francisco Costa collaborated with retail brand Macy's to launch a limited edition Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein capsule dress line.
Monami Thakur
Apr 04, 2012
Crude oil prices declined in Asian trade Wednesday as the Federal Reserve released minutes from a recent meeting dashed hopes for a fresh dose of quantitative easing (QE3) in the near future.
Satya Nagendra Padala
Apr 04, 2012
British boy band One Direction has gone from obscurity to playing Madison Square Garden in over a year. The tickets will be flying fast, but use this link around 5 p.m. Friday to get your shot to see Niall, Liam, Zayne, Harry and Louis at Madison Square Garden Dec. 3. A lot of refreshing may be necessary due to high demand.
Howard Koplowitz
Apr 03, 2012
Last month, North Korea invited 14 scientists from eight different countries -- five alone from the U.S. -- to attend a conference with 75 North Korean scientists, and provide their expertise on restoring the country's environment and securing domestic food supplies.
Ryan Villarreal
Apr 03, 2012
Nike Inc. and the National Football League (NFL) unveiled the uniforms for the 2012 football season on Tuesday with new jerseys for all 32 teams and replacing Reebok as the NFL's official outfitter. View the slideshow to see photos of all 32 new uniforms.
Nadine DeNinno
Apr 03, 2012
Investors re-adjusted their value calculations for risky assets on Tuesday, selling off stocks, bonds and all manner of commodity futures after the Federal Reserve released minutes from the most recent meeting of its rate-setting committee. The minutes strongly suggested that the U.S. central bank was backing away from the possibility of further monetary easing in the short-run, including any kind of quantitative easing.
Eleazar David Meléndez
Apr 03, 2012
President Barack Obama said the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to strike down an economic law like the Affordable Care Act since before the New Deal.
Dan Rivoli
Apr 03, 2012
Nike unveiled its newest line of NFL uniforms on Tuesday.
John Talty
Apr 03, 2012
A female Russian spy was close to seducing a member of President Barack Obama's cabinet in 2010, the FBI's assistant director for counterintelligence, Frank Figliuzzi, told the BBC in a recent interview. But that spy wasn't flame-haired media darling Anna Chapman, a bureau spokesman told ABC News.
Daniel Tovrov
Apr 03, 2012
Ford Motor Co is rolling out new Lincoln models with a panoramic glass roof option to lure younger, more affluent buyers, as the No. 2 U.S. automaker tries to revive a luxury brand whose sales peaked two decades ago.
Peggy Truong
Apr 03, 2012
Global auction house Sotheby's kicked off its spring sales in Hong Kong by selling all lots in a two-day wine sale, outstripping expectations, but the picture was less clear for its Asian and Chinese art sales as buyers became more selective.
Peggy Truong
Apr 03, 2012
Lara Flynn Boyle is the latest celebrity victim of Pillow Face syndrome, as she was seen on Saturday in Los Angeles in paparazzi photos with an almost unrecognizable puffy, swollen face most likely the result of fillers or bad plastic surgery.
Nadine DeNinno
Apr 03, 2012
Unions, students and others have protested the proposed cuts by staging huge demonstrations in Barcelona, Madrid and other cities across the beleaguered country.
Palash Ghosh
Apr 03, 2012
Ashley Greene is no stranger to photographers, her superstar status has been steadily rising ever since the initial Twilight film hit theaters. Greene has been spotted in New York on several occasions while filming Pan Am and the TV movie Americana.
Justine Ashley Costanza
Apr 03, 2012
Shell is moving closer to the date when it can start drilling for oil in Arctic waters off Alaska. The company may soon get the Department of the Interior's approval and could begin operations by year's end.
Pierre Bertrand
Apr 03, 2012
More than 100 advertisers, including all his technology advertisers except for LifeLock, withdrew their commercials from “The Rush Limbaugh Show” in the past five weeks.
David Zielenziger
Apr 03, 2012
Jeremy Lin underwent successful surgery Monday on his injured left knee.
Anthony Riccobono
Apr 03, 2012