Reuters - Stocks opened little changed on Tuesday as investors continued to cautiously view the ongoing sovereign debt crisis in Europe.[Read more...]
Reuters - Stock index futures rose on Tuesday as investors hoped S&P’s downgrade warning on the euro zone’s credit ratings will help force through budget changes at a European Union summit this week.[Read more...]
Equity Residential, an apartment company controlled by property tycoon Sam Zell, has reached an agreement to buy a 26.5% stake in one of its largest competitors, Archstone, in a move to ultimately control the whole company. Equity Residential said Friday that it entered into a contract with Bank of America Corp. and Barclays PLC, which [...]
Reuters - Investors pushed stocks higher on Friday, heading for the best week since early 2009, on news the U.S. unemployment rate fell to a 2-1/2 year low.[Read more...]
The number of tech incubators has skyrocketed. And that has investors and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs such as Max Levchin concerned. Mr. Levchin, the PayPal co-founder who later sold start-up Slide Inc. to Google Inc. in 2010, is among a growing group worried that the proliferation of start-up “boot camps” is creating problems for the [...]
Reuters - The Dow and S&P 500 advanced for a second day on Tuesday as consumer confidence data was stronger than expected and investors eyed further progress on a solution to Europe’s fiscal mess.[Read more...]
Reuters - The Dow and S&P 500 advanced for a second day on Tuesday as consumer confidence data was stronger than expected and investors eyed further progress on a solution to Europe’s fiscal mess.[Read more...]
Italy again had to pay investors yields averaging above 7% at its government bond auctions Tuesday, as the euro zone’s third-largest economy continues to borrow at costs that forced Greece, Portugal and Ireland to seek external bailouts. The auction of up to €8 billion in bonds over a range of maturities saw Italy [...]
Reuters - Asian shares and the euro extended a rally into a second day on Tuesday, as investors were buoyed by expectations that European policy makers will outline details of how they will leverage a bailout fund so as to avert contagion in sovereign debt markets.[Read more...]
AP - Companies complaining about tighter air and water pollution standards may be saying one thing to lawmakers and another to regulators and investors.[Read more...]
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Senate OKs payroll tax cut, huge spending bill
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