Leading shares rose in opening deals on Friday, following strong overnight performances in Asia and mixed results on Wall Street. The FTSE 100 index of top shares was up 0.32 percent at 5,660.44 points at the open. Copyright 2010 AFP European Edition
Tens of billions budgeted for bonuses while national unemployment rises As reeling banks and other financial institutions reached out with one arm to accept hundreds of billions of dollars in bailout money from American taxpayers last year, they reached out with the ...
Chip maker TriQuint Semiconductor hikes forecast for 1st-quarter earnings TriQuint Semiconductor Inc., which provides chips for mobile gadgets such as Apple's iPhone, hiked its profit forecast for the quarter on Thursday, a sign that demand is improving. The news pushed TriQuint shares ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Palm Inc <PALM.O> warned that revenue for the current quarter would be far below Wall Street's expectations, after tepid demand for its smartphones left wireless carriers with piles of excess inventory. The company's shares fell 14 percent in ...
PolyOne gives 1st-quarter guidance above Wall Street expectations as auto demand improves PolyOne Corp., which makes specialized plastics and resins for constructing buildings and vehicles, gave a first-quarter forecast well above Wall Street's expectations Thursday, sending shares up in after-hours trading. The ...
As banks binged on risky mortgages, govt rewarded regulators with taxpayer-funded bonuses As banks gambled on the risky mortgages that helped create the worst financial crisis in generations, the U.S. government handed out millions of dollars in bonuses to regulators at agencies ...
AP Enterprise: Cruise line, NASA got swine flu shots early on; CDC says system worked well Last fall, as swine flu cases mounted and parents desperately sought to protect their kids, the hard-to-get vaccine was handed out in some surprising places: the ...
Health officials faced with meager supplies of swine flu vaccine last fall sent doses to some surprising places: cruise ship lines, Wall Street firms and the Johnson Space Center. There is no complete database of where every dose went. But partial records ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Presidents of regional Federal Reserve banks on Thursday defended their role in supervising small banks, and said ending it would cut a link between the central bank and the national heartland. "It is a travesty," Kansas City Federal Reserve ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nike Inc <NKE.N> posted a return to sales and profit growth on Wednesday and forecast higher expected orders around the world after a year of declines, sending its shares up more than 3 percent. The largest global sports ...
