China bear bile company quits IPO bid after outcry
Animal-rights activists in China are claiming a rare victory after a company that raises bears to extract bile from their gall bladders withdrew its ...
Treasury to sell 30 million shares of GM stock
The U.S. government plans to sell another 30 million shares of General Motors stock in a public offering on Thursday as it speeds up efforts to divest ...
UnitedHealth board OKs quarterly dividend raise
UnitedHealth Group is raising its quarterly dividend by another 32 percent, to 28 cents per share. The new payout represents an increase of nearly 7 ...
Futures sink in light trading; all eyes on jobs
Stock futures fell in light trading volume Wednesday as a private payroll company provided what may be a hint as to what to expect when the Labor ...
Salesforce.com buying ExactTarget for $2.34B
Salesforce.com will spend more than $2.3 billion to buy marketing software company ExactTarget. More than 6,000 companies use ExactTarget, which like ...
Kuwait telecom Zain takes step on Iraq IPO plans
Kuwaiti telecommunications provider Zain says it will set up a holding company for its Iraq operations as it prepares to sell a stake in the division ...
Dell trimmed CEO's pay by 14 percent amid PC slump
Dell Inc. trimmed CEO Michael Dell's pay by 14 percent to $13.9 million last year amid a slump that culminated in a proposed $24.4 billion deal that ...
Shares of Merck, Bristol jump on cancer drug news
Experimental drugs that help the immune system detect otherwise-invisible cancer cells shrank tumors and extended the lives of patients with advanced ...
MAA buying Colonial Properties Trust in stock deal
Real estate investment trust Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc. is buying peer Colonial Properties Trust Inc. in an all-stock deal, expanding its ...
Dell board recommends Michael Dell buyout offer
The Dell board is standing behind a buyout offer from the company's CEO and founder, and it has asked shareholders of the slumping PC maker to approve ...
Stocks rise as lackluster reports ease Fed concern
The stock market rose Thursday after a pair of lackluster economic reports raised expectations that the Federal Reserve will continue to boost the ...
Ahead of the Bell: Analyst upgrades Facebook
Video ads could become the next billion-dollar business for Facebook, according to Jefferies & Co., which upped its rating on the stock Thursday.
Nasdaq paying $10M to settle Facebook disruption
Nasdaq has agreed to pay a $10 million penalty to settle federal civil charges after regulators said its systems and decisions disrupted Facebook's ...
Exxon rejects gay-discrimination ban
The CEO of Exxon Mobil Corp. says there's no quick replacement for oil, and sharply cutting oil's use to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would make ...
Stocks fall; Dow average pulls back from a record
Wall Street's passion for high-dividend stocks is fading. The stock market closed lower Wednesday, led by the same industry groups that had the ...
News Corp unveils logo of impaired publishing unit
News Corp. on Tuesday unveiled a friendlier-looking logo for the publishing division as it prepares to split the struggling newspaper and book unit ...
Fidelity National buying Lender Processing
Fidelity National Financial Inc. has agreed to buy Lender Processing Services Inc. for about $2.82 billion in order to broaden and diversify its ...
Stocks jump after confidence, house prices surge
A rally that brought the stock market to record highs this year came back to life after consumer confidence reached a five-year high and U.S.
Club Med focus of buyout by top shareholders
Shares in Club Mediterranee rose sharply Monday on word that the iconic French vacation resort operator's two largest shareholders are launching a ...
News Corp. OKs poison pill, buyback before split
News Corp. said its board of directors has approved plans to split its entertainment and publishing businesses into two separate companies.
Stocks barely budge; market ends week with loss
Major stock indexes closed out their first weekly loss in a month in quiet trading Friday. The Standard & Poor's 500 index dropped 0.91 of a point to ...
HP's 2Q offers hope even as revenue slump deepens
Hewlett-Packard is still scrambling to meet the growing demand for more versatile and less expensive mobile devices as a slump in its personal ...
Target's 1Q profit drops 29 pct on weak sales
Target Corp. reported a 29 percent drop in first-quarter profit as unusually cool spring weather and financial pressures chilled customers' appetite ...
Clearwire board approves higher Sprint offer
Clearwire wants to accept a richer buyout offer made by Sprint this week and is recommending that shareholders vote in favor of it. Sprint upped its ...
JPMorgan's Dimon survives shareholder referendum
Jamie Dimon, the CEO and chairman of JPMorgan Chase, easily survived a vote Tuesday that would have called on him to give up his role as chairman of ...
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