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Several stocks trading near $5 were moving on above-average volume during Monday’s session.
The political battle over solar feed-in tariff incentives in the Czech Republic has taken a more public — and high profile — turn.
Indian software services firm HCL Technologies Ltd. said Monday that quarterly profit fell 16.7 percent in dollar terms, stung by foreign exchange losses, falling interest income, higher costs and weak revenues from its back office business.
China denied involvement in Internet attacks and defended its online restrictions as lawful Monday after the United States urged Beijing to investigate a computer attack against search engine giant Google.
An attorney for Washington Wizards guard Javaris Crittenton says the player will plead guilty to a misdemeanor gun charge - 10 days after teammate Gilbert Arenas pleaded guilty to a felony gun charge.
An overhaul of the state Employment Security Commission is expected to gain new urgency Tuesday as a detailed audit of the unemployment benefit and job placement agency is released.
Clear Channel Communications is interested in signing radio shock jock Howard Stern.
Many Republican activists identify more with leaders like Ross Perot, the billionaire who ran for president as a third- party candidate in 1992 and 1996, and Paul, who ran for the Republican nomination in 2008, than with former President George W. Bush or current Republican congressional leaders.
The US Senate is planning to move ahead with Iran sanctions legislation soon after its recess ends in January, top senators said Thursday.
The Senate on Thursday approved Miriam Sapiro to be deputy U.S. trade representative for Europe and the Americas, filling one of several still vacant slots on President Barack Obama’s senior trade team.
US Senator Carl Levin applauded passage of the 871 billion dollar healthcare reform bill on Thursday morning.
The markets ended mixed Wednesday after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged.
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Communications equipment company Black Box Corp. said Monday that it bought privately held Quanta Systems LLC.
United Airlines said on Monday it plans to borrow $659.1 million against 31 of its planes, most of it to refinance debt from 2001.
PepsiCo Inc., the soft drink and snacks maker, said Monday it named Jaya Kumar president of its Quaker Food & Snacks unit.
Oil and gas company Apache Corp. on Monday said it secured new contracts to supply 50 million cubic feet of natural gas per day through Argentina’s Gas Plus Program.
Shares of major department-store operators rose on Monday amid positive comments from an analyst who predicted strong same-store sales in September.
Internet advertising in the U.S. fell 5 percent in the second quarter as the recession continued to crimp marketing budgets.
Social networking hub MySpace says it has named Mark Rosenbaum as its first chief financial officer.
Microsoft Corp. says it raised CEO Steve Ballmer’s salary by 4 percent at the start of fiscal 2009, a year in which the software maker’s profit plunged 17 percent on weak personal computer sales.
Nobody likes inflation, until it’s gone. For the first time since the Internal Revenue Service started indexing federal taxes for inflation in the mid-1980s, taxpayers will get virtually no benefit from inflation in 2010.
The Fed, in its role as the lead regulator of the nation’s biggest banks, is looking to monitor pay practices at those institutions as part of its responsibility for ensuring their safety and soundness, sources familiar with the plans said.
US securities regulators have proposed a ban on flash orders, which give some traders a split-second advantage in buying and selling stocks.
Mwai Kibaki must be a worried man. Rumblings from Washington indicate that some Americans hope the president of Kenya will soon face a challenge to his seven-year rule - from incumbent US president Barack Obama.
Crowds that included supporters of Iran’s opposition movement gathered in Tehran Friday to march in the country’s annual pro-Palestinian parade, witnesses said.
“Schools in Beijing are quietly removing the Green Dam filter, which was required for all school computers in July, due to complaints over problems with the software,” notes this Reuters report .
DOHA: The Emergency Department at Hamad General Hospital will shortly change the overall plan of the department to tackle the problem of overcrowding.
KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait has raised its stake in Islamic lender Boubyan Bank to 40 percent, as it seeks to boost its Shariah-compliant business, an NBK spokesman said yesterday.
New York: President Barack Obama bluntly warned yesterday that some Wall Street bosses were ignoring lessons of the financial crisis, as he demanded a new age of prudence after bloated years of unchecked excess.
H E Dr Mohamed bin Saleh Al Sada handing over the certification to one of the QP department directors.
In light of Chinese consumers’ love for chicken feet, the government may be loathe to cut off U.S. poultry imports.
Adobe Systems Inc.said Tuesday it will buy the Web analytic software company Omniture Inc.
The airline industry says it will not turn a profit until after 2011, comparing its current woes to the economic devastation wreaked by the 9-11 terrorist attacks.
The Canadian dollar jumped more than a US cent Tuesday even though the Bank of Canada sent out a warning about the loonie’s persistent strength earlier in the day.
Microsoft is giving its operating system for smart-phones a new look in time for the holiday shopping season.
A stock market ripe for a big pullback succumbed Tuesday, plunging when rumors of a bank failure revived investors’ anxiety about the banking industry and the economy as a whole.
The U.S. manufacturing sector grew in August for the first time in 19 months, adding to evidence that the recession is ending.
Officials will begin the journey toward research for the marketing and development of an aviation and technology park near The Market Common, said Hugh Owens, president and chief executive of the Myrtle Beach Regional Economic Development Corp.
As his partners bustled around the Grand Strand Chamber of Commerce office preparing for Tuesday morning’s ribbon-cutting, it was hard to tell if founder Ward Shepherd was excited, nervous or just his usual self.
Google’s Chrome exited beta last December, well ahead of when you might normally expect a Google product to do so. It wasn’t, however, because the browser was necessarily ready for prime time; it was because OEMs would not pre-install a beta product on their computers, and Google longed for those deals.
It’s Project Calliope, the brainchild of our friendly Daytime Astronomer Alex Antunes. His goal? Build and launch his own satellite, which is daunting enough, but even more challenging will include …
Researchers demonstrated a new method for fabricating silk-based optical waveguides that are biocompatible, biodegradable and can be readily functionalized with active molecules.
The invitation-only event will be hosted at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Theater and is expected to include the unveiling of several revisions to Apple’s iPod series.
On Monday, Rockstar Games, the developers behind the Grand Theft Auto series, announced that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be coming to the iPhone and iPod Touch this fall.
