U.S. stocks rose on Thursday after data showed a steep drop in the number of people filing new claims for jobless benefits and Alcoa Inc (AA.N) kicked off earnings season with better-than-expected
A fresh wave of cyber attacks that slowed U.S. and South Korean websites this week hit more targets on Thursday, a Web security firm said, while the South's spy agency has said
European equities bounced back on Thursday from the last session's 10-week lows, with reassuring results from U.S. aluminium giant Alcoa boosting mining stocks and oil shares tracking firmer crude prices. The market
Dow Jones futures rose 0.7 percent by 4:35 a.m. EDT, S&P futures gained 0.9 percent and Nasdaq futures ticked up 0.6 percent, pointing to a higher start for Wall Street's main stock
Britain's leading share index gained 0.6 percent in early trade on Thursday, snapping a three-session losing run following a late rally on Wall Street, with miners and banks providing the main strength.
Japan led a fall in Asian stocks on Thursday after the yen spiked to a five-month high against the dollar, with investors seeking to trim riskier bets amid concerns about the health
The Bank of England looks set to feed more cash into its economy on Thursday, underscoring policymakers' commitment to support a fragile recovery from the worst global recession since World War Two.
Forecast-beating results from U.S. bellwether Alcoa helped lift European stocks and draw global equities out of the red on Thursday, while currency markets reversed some of their recent cautious patterns. The U.S.
News Corp is not interested in buying popular microblogging site Twitter and will not sell its struggling social network MySpace, said the media conglomerate's chief executive, Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch, who arrived on
For years it was the talk of the wireless industry: beaming television to the world's four billion cellphones would be the icon of the digital age. Now, just three letters are hastening
