Last week’s calendar was packed with economic releases but the market was focused on Friday’s payroll number. For the first time in quite some time there were expectations of a positive number.
World stocks fell on Tuesday as investors digested early results from the U.S. and European earnings seasons while the dollar climbed on a Chinese view its decline has hit bottom. Some attention
Britain's leading share index was 0.4 percent lower in early trade on Tuesday, weighed by weak commodity and banking stocks, which offset strength from food retailers after a solid update from Tesco.
Google Inc's new Nexus One smartphone, which retails for $529 without a service plan, is built from components that cost about $174, according to a research report. But analysts said the big
Cadbury showcased robust 2009 results and an upbeat outlook on Tuesday in its last move to rebuff U.S. food giant Kraft Foods' (KFT.N) 10.5 billion pound ($17 billion) hostile takeover bid. In
Moody's Investors Service continues to believe that a sluggish recovery is the most likely global macro-economic scenario for 2010. In its 2010 update of its report series entitled "Moody's Global Macroeconomic Risk
Global and US default rates decrease for first time since January 2008 The European speculative-grade default rate increased to 10.2% in Q4 2009 from 9.7% in Q3, Moody's Investors Service said in
The trailing 12-month global speculative-grade default rate finished at 12.5% in the fourth quarter of 2009, down slightly from 12.6% in the previous quarter, Moody's Investors Service said in its latest monthly
Cyta reports 1.2 mln in first hour of 2010 Fewer SMS messages of well wishes were sent over the new year period than the record number during the Christmas period, according to
The U.S. Federal Reserve made record profits in 2009 and will return $45 billion to the U.S. Treasury, after its efforts to prop up the economy created a windfall for the government,
